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Oregon It 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 and $8.00 per year. Entered as second-class "matter at the postoftice, 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 OIney, Helen Angell Jimmie Leonard, Managing Editor Kent Stitzer, Newg Editor Fred May, Advertising Manager Boh Rogers, National Advertising Manager Editorial and Business Offices located on ground floor of Journalism building. Phonos *800 Extension: 382 Editor; 353 News Office; 359 Sports Office; and 354 Business Offices. Pat Erickson, Women’s Editor Ted Kenyon, Photo Editor Rob Flavelle, Co-Sports Editor Ken Christianson, Co-Sports Editor UPPER NEWS STAFP Wes Sullivan, Ass’t Newt Editor Betty Jane Biggs, Ass’t News Editor Ray Schrick, Ass’t Managing Editor Tom Wright, Ass’t Managing Editor Corrine Wignes, Executive Secretary Johnnie Kahananni, feature Editor UPPER BUSINESS STAFF \lvera Macdcr, Classified Advertising Man ager Ron Alpaugh, Layout Production Manager Rill Wallan, Circulation Manager Emerson Page, Promotion Director Janet Farnham, Office Manager Class Card Compromises 'T'HE freshman committee to determine the class card issue still cannot reach any agreement. The three Greeks and - three independents have had many meetings, have determined nothing. Some of the compromises which have been offered are inter , esting, if not acceptable. Almost everything has been pro posed and turned down for one reason or another. The num ber of compromises, however, seems to indicate that the stu dents realize the existing problem and are attempting to do something about it. The great share of these compromises and a great share of the talk about the question misses the point entirely. The fundamental question at stake is the requirement of a class card to vote. In other words, paying for the right to vote. It makes little difference how much this class card costs, whether the student gets a rebate on all dances, or whether he is guaranteed eternal life by the purchase of a class card. If a class card is required to vote and that card costs some thing, then the student is paying to vote. * # * J^JANY of the compromises have a great deal of merit. The sincerity of those who make the proposals cannot he * doubted. Yet none of their proposals correct the underlying * fault of the present system. * If the class cards are made worth buying by giving dis « counts to dances and other class affairs that most certainly Z would be desirable. Undoubtedly more cards would be sold Z and the classes would have more money in their treasury from “ such a system than from selling class cards. * But first take the right to vote away from the possession ; of a card. Grant universal class suffrage by giving all a voice * in the election of their studoyj officers. 'When that is done " the other suggestions can he acted upon. 5 All Over a Color - gPROUTING up suddenly on the Oregon campus they have 2 stood with their concrete bases planted resolutely in the, 2 lawn, conspicuous, unattractive, with their iron grill work covered with a dull,orange-colored paint. We have often wished that the gates were some other color, especially since that shade of orange resembles somewhat the colors of another institution in this state. A day or two ago, we heard rumors to the effect that the gates were being painted several different colors to see how * each would look and pick out the best one. So, yesterday, we sauntered down to take another look at the gates. Sure enough. Four of its many posts had been painted four very different colors. We wanted to consider each one carefully so we stepped back and surveyed the first post critically. It, was painted an extremely bright blue. Very pretty. Then it occurred to us that with that shade of blue on the gates and the coeds wear ing wooden shoes, campus visitors would be looking for the windmills and dikes. # * * we went to the next post. It was painted a steelish, blue gray. We hesitated. It wasn't unattractive yet it wasn't particularly attractive either. Since it was neither especially attractive nor especially appropriate we turned away with a sigh. A bright, very dark green post greeted our eyes. We ' blinked. Well, it looked pretty good after the others. It didn’t look bad at all. And it did have the advantage of being appro priate. The last post, we found, was painted a reddish brown color. Visions of barns rose in our minds. Since that, too, was so closely connected with thoughts of another state institution of higher learning we instantly discarded thut. Sadly we turned away from the gates and walked across the campus. We got an idea so we ran around and asked all our friends what color they thought the gates should be. The answers varied from sky-blue pink to black. Very helpful. But when the logical answers were counted up there were a num ber of votes for green, more for a metal finish of some sort such as bronze, a few votes for a combination of yellow and green. '^y^T'KLL, what color will they be" It will be interesting to watch and see how the question is decided. Of the four colors which were displayed on the gates only one got any votes from our friends That color was, logically enough, green. The green is appropriate and sufficiently attractive Still a metal finish such as bronze would look nice but then, who said that that would be possible. Of the four colors now on the gate we unreservedly cast our vote for that bright, green paint.—JiO. Someone asks us if The Kmeruld will quit publicizing during exam week. “CUtv far cut ? t. 1> a - t ^ \ o> ." lM 1 ) » The Board Looks At Pigging J^TUpENT Nativities are not the main purpose of higher education. They are a complement to the educational pro gram of such an institution, whose main attribute is that quality of teaching young people how to do things by doing, how to meet people by meeting them. That is why the action of the educational activities board last night in leaving the Piggers’ Guide publication and man agement in the hands of student administrators is a commend able one. In so doing, the board is lea ving intact one of several University fields for teaching the “how by doing” process. The Piggers’ Guide, known officially as the student direc tory, provides valuable experience both in selling and editing . . . besides providing much-needed “pin money” for those who work on it. Skull and Dagger and Kwama, who have always given their support to sales of the book, are apt to back a student-manned project with more real enthusiasm than one controlled by faculty members. Because when stu dents operate it, they have a personal interest in seeing that it is handled successfully. The board looked at the record of the student directory for the past several years ... it saw that expenses had been kept to a minimum, advertising sales had been high, editing com paratively clean. It observed that, in the final analysis, the Piggers’ Guide, as the students’ handiwork, has no outstand ingly bad features. The Oregon directory of student and faculty names, ad dresses and phone numbers remains in the hands of the stu dents for whom it is compiled. Such action is a victory for those who agree with John Dewey’s famous statement that “true education is not preparation for life but life itself.” —H.A. In the Editor's Mail To fhe Editor: It’s disgusting to hear stu dents complain about the food they’re getting here, while Eur ope’s empty stomach is growl ing, we buy ice cream when 10 cents would buy soup or medi cine for some sick, starving Britisher. The British are also shivering; it may be reserved, English shivering, but it still feels the same way on the spine. We turn on the radiators in the room and the heat comes up; there are no radiators in the shelters where the British sleep. If the bunks at school are hard, how would a bed on the stinking mud of an air-raid shelter be? If a flu epidemic is bad here, how is it to sleep at night all crowded together, coughing, moaning, cursing, wailing, and worst of all; think ing and hearing? Hearing the whine of a bomb and the zing of shrapnel and the cries of hu mans in torture. Thinking of friends and relatives dead; dead or fighting somewhere in the night, alone and dogged with the enemy to face. There are opportunities for us to help. The British Relief chapter here in town has yarn to be knitted into warm sweat ers and socks; that could be done in the time it takes to play a college bridge game every day. There is material to be cut out and sewed. If you have mon ey, it is needed. You can buy British badges and give them to your friends at Christmas; you can just give money and it will be used to buy cots for sol diers and babies. You can con tribute money monthly for some. British child; he can be “adopt ed" by you. If Britain is to have help; she must have it now. "Help is only help that is given when needed." We could even give up organization Christmas parties where Jane buys Sally a jumping-jack and give the money to British relief. wore carefree; were warm, we're well fed, we’re roofed ami we’re smug about it. We say, “They got themselves into it— let them get themselves out.’’ We say, “Oh, that war- -well I’m just pretending that it doesn't exist; I’m putting it completely out of my mind.'" But millions of people are LIVING IN THIS WAR, we so casually discuss. While we are flicking it away from us like the dead ashes of a cigarette, people are in agony; crushed between the walls of their own homes—dying horrible, unthink able deaths, or living, and wait ing—waiting for a victory or a loss or a warm sweater. If Great Britain doesn’t win, and a great deal of this “if" de pends upon whether we give her support and cooperation now—as far as we are able—, we may be m war. And then the South Americans may say "They got themselves into this, Jet them get themselves out.’’ A Student To the Editor; If you were walking down the street “full of humanitarian principles and $30 in your pock et and came face to face with two starving babies, would you be inclined to feed the nearest one and let the other die, or would you make an effort to help them both? No doubt you ucyld te unable to lea\e cue there to stars e. Yet Oregon's University AWS has done just that! She has discriminately decided to do nate $30 for use to buy three cots for English babies in the air raid shelters.” But one "H.A.”, who wrote the editorial "Coeds Look at War” last week, would have us believe this is "a contribution to relief for suffering "motivat ed purely by the "humanitarian principles” of the AWS; that it was a caprice of the gods which placed the donation in the hands of the British. If this is discrimination, why did the editorial by H.A. at tempt to make it appear other wise ? If it is not discrimination, why didn't the AWS donate a part of it to the Chinese babies, who have been in need for these past three years; or to the In dian babies, whose freedom has been denied by these very same British.'! I suggest that AWS and H.A. find a more subtle or savory pill that students can swallow. Brian Flavelle. When School? To the Editor: Summer vacations .120 days Armistice day . 1 day Thanksgiving vacation 4 days Christmas vacation . 13 days Spring vacation . 10 days Memorial day .. 1 day Saturdays, Sundays.104 days Registration days . 4 days Eeach student sleeps 6 hours a day . 91 days Lunch hour every day 15 days VICTORY DAY . 1 day Total.364 days There are in each year 365 days No wonder the Board insists that we go to school Jan. 3rd!! R.W.E. (Editor’s note: Just think. If a student sleeps eight hours a day he wouldn't be going to school at all! Perhaps infirmary doctors are being disloyal in recommending more rest. We will point out the flaw in this table tomorrow—in case you haven’t already figured it out.) From All Sides By CORINE LAMON Danger Slip* The average freshman wo man at the University of In diana received danger slips— called “smoke-nps” there for 2.S7 class hours this fall se mester. Sorority pledges aver aged 3.2 hours per coed, and sorority upperclassmen received an average of 1.5 hours of dan ger reports. —Indiana Daily. Excellent Bargain Twenty University of Cali forma coeds wrote a letter to the editor of the campus daily at said institution offering themselves, in a spirit of tom foolery. as wives to prospective conscnptees They made one faux pas. however-—-they in cluded their telephone number. By noon on the day the letter was published more than 50 V* ' rx n *■! *•. ask for blind dates, in all se The BAND BOX By BILL, MOXLEY Negro Jive for the Park Floyd Ray and his 18-piece negro orchestra is coming to Willamette park weekend after next. Mr. Ray should draw a crowd appropriate to his abil ity to produce good solid negro swing. Which means that he should entice a capacity throng. Ray is right up there with the best of the negro bands al though his fame hasn't spread as far as that of some of his contemporaries. An interesting bit of public ity about Ray concerns his ap pearance two years ago at the annual Los Angeles Musicians’ Benefit. This particular affair was held at the Palomar with thousands and thousands of rab id fans in attendance. As usual, every band in town gave a fif teen or twenty minute exhibi tion of its wares. Benny Good man was there among others. But Floyd Ray was the only band to receive loud and enthu siastic requests for an encore. Those who like the Jimmy Lunceford-Count Basie school of music should take no chanc es on missing Floyd R'ay. Goodman Still Tops COMPARE your choices of bands and soloists with the first results of Down Beat’s poll. De spite his layoff Benny Goodman is way ahead in the favorite swing band department. Duke Ellington has jumped from last year’s sixth spot to second place in the current poll. Glenn Miller leads the sweet bands with Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey following in that order. The soloist department this year bars voting on bandlead ers. Muggsy Spanier, Cootie Williams, and Ziggy Elman are leading the trumpets with Chu Berry, Lester Young, and Ben Webster holding top spots in the tenor sax division. Music-Minded Webfoots Say: WHAT’S POPULAR ON THE CAMPUS . . . Artie Shaw's “An Old, Old Castle in Scotland’’ and “If It’s You’’ form two very popular sides to the Victor record . . . Glenn Gray’s latest are "Moon Over Burma’’ and “When You Awake” . . . Charlie Barnet does a good job on “I Hear a Rhap sody.” teiy Dickson sounded fairly good during the latter part of the rally dance the other after noon. Especially on the many Benny Goodman standards which included “One o'clock Jump,” “Wrappin’ It Up,” “Sent for You Yesterday . . .” and several others. Jean Morrison can sing at any rally dance of mine. riousness. The next day the pa?, per printed an explanation. —Daily California. Do You Putter? A puttering room has been opened in Scott hall at North western university. Students who suspect hidden artistic tal ents may make linoleum block print Christmas cards, or just generally putter around for a small charge. —Daily Northwestern. Youth must be served—and then carried out. One enters college a green freshman, progresses to a nor mal gray, and comes out a se nior in black. That process of decay is known as an educa tion. —Y News. A. M. Checkering, Albion col lege biologist, reports that in Panama there are small spiders that seek security from the world's dangers by taking up residence in the webs of large spiders. Sally Ann’s Bakery for your Party Pastries Ask about our Christmas specials IhU High Street Phone 283 V < ., PlfMl « V Alt /*'. Oih International Side Show By RIDGELY CUMMINGS (Editor’s note: Today Mr. Cummings is trying out a new technique. He promises it will not be a regular thing, but will be used irregularly on feature columns. It should be remem bered that the opinions reflect ed in this column, or in any Em erald column, are not necessar ily the opinions of the editorial board.) It was reliably reported in Washington last night that, par don me, your necktie is hanging in the soup, steps are being taken to impose legal curbs on labor's right to strike in na tional defense industries. Oh, do you like that dress? I think the material is just simply yes I read where the Greeks are driv ing steadily deeper into Alban ia and would you believe it my dear it says here the main Greek forces have now left the roads and are fighting pitched battles in the mashes. Uh-huh, it says Greeks and Romans fought in close quar ters deep in slime, with no chance to help the wounded who fell and were smothered in the deep mud. Ain’t it awful. Well as I al ways say pass the salt please where was I oh here it is Dr. Milton A. Marcy, Portland dis trict superintendent for the Methodist church said last night that he wished to correct misstatements and emphasize that the church does not con done or support persons violat ing the selective service act. He made his statement to cor rect a “garbled newspaper re port’’ of his last Sunday's ser mon. There goes that nickleodian again no I never use mustard but Life magazine calls them “juke boxes’’ isn’t it silly yes one reads the most awful things in the newspapers why only last night it said the stock mar ket is in a stalemate with pric es edging irregularly lower and you know Henry took an awful flutter in Anaconda copper. You'd think it ought to be rising the way everybody is busy killing everybody else and copper is so good for that pur pose. You know. It goes up for a little while and the little fel lows jump on the bandwagon and the big fellows sell out and then it goes down again and the little fellows lose their margin . . . margins are simply terrible and a poor man ought never to fool with them . . . and the big speculators buy it back again. Henry is no dummy of course but I told him to be careful. He was telling me about that awful Ma Perkins uh-huh, Frances Perkins, secretary of labor. Why do you know that she has a relief program to help migra tory agricultural workers but the associated farmers meeting in Fresno will put her in her place. Yes indeed, Henry L. Strobel, from Salinas, the treasurer of the associated farmers, devoted most of his speech last night to an attack on Ma Perkins' pro gram. “Agriculture and business have got to get together . . . neither one can any longer alone protect themselves, but both groups getting together might remove some of the termites in Washington . . .” he said. I guess that was telling them. Well so long dearie I must be going. I enjoyed listening to you you say the funniest things. Yes indeed I like your new hat good bye. Good-bye dear. Good-bye. Harvard university in the last year received gifts totaling $4,857,942. JOE RICHARDS 873 Willamette MEN’S STORE offers the Oregon man MANHATTAN PRODUCTS ALPINER for your Sleep~$emester . Bed yoursell down in surplus comfort for the third of your college life spent in sleep. Alpiner is the ski suit idea perfected by Manhattan for rumple-less slumber. Knitted, neat, and in rich dark colors, it’s also mighty right for lounging around before the shut-eye session. More good looks but no more cost than the usual sleep wear ... $2 —the Manhattan Alpiner. The Manhattan Shirt Company, -4-4-i Madison Ave., N. Y.C. TWO TOP FEATURES! Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier in “21 Day* Together” — plus — “Danger Ahead” 'fn+h, Carefree and Collegiate! “TOO MANY GIRLS” with LUCILLE BALL and RICHARD CARLSON Oregon W Emerald Wednesday Advertising Staff: ' Bob Marland, manager Charlotte Knox Jean Routt Phil Burco Bob Farrow Bill Loud Chuck WoQdfield Night Staff: Ted Goodwin, night editor Mary Wolf Chan Clarkson Neal Regin Don Lemons Donald Ross Barbara Plaisted Marjorie Major Copy Desk Staff: Tommy W'right, City Editor Frances Oliver Helen Johnson Marge Curtis Ep Hoyt Bob Frazier 1 Ann Reynolds Stan Weber Shirley Patton Bill Hilton %7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GIFT SHOP From * Adorable Salt and Pepper Shakers shaped like bells . . . To * Lovely hand embroi dered Slips, Nighties, and Pajamas . . . We have a gay assort ment of exciting gifts— Something for everyone on your list — (except perhaps Dad or HIM), We’ll help wrap them, and pack them for mail ing, too ! Ask to see our Campus Represent at i ve, Sue Paine. 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Ads must be in Emerald business office no later than 6 p.m. prior to the day of in sertion. • Gifts DON LEE H AND ICR A FT - A> 2 "s! Park Street. That unusual per sonalized Christmas Gift. Small monogramed shiny brass Christ mas bells, 35c. • Wanted PASSENGERS for round-trip to Los Angeles during Christmas vacation. Leaving December 20. Returning about January 3rd. Phone J877-R. Harrie Young. • Lost BROWN zipper purse on Laurel- ^ wood golf course a week ago Ucaday. Reward. Phone till. Ana Carr,
