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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, INC., College publishers' representative, 420 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago—Boston . —Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle. LYLE M. NELSON, Editor JAMES W. FROST, Business Manager ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Hal Olney, Helen Angell 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 Journalism building. Phones 8300 Extension: 382 Editor; 853 News Office; 359 Sports Office; and 354 Business Offices. Pat Erickson, Women’s Editor TcJ Kenyon, Photo EditOT Bob Flavelle, Co-Sports Editor <en Christianson, Co-Sport* Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Wes Sullivan, Ass’t New* Tom Wright, Ass’t Managing Editor Editor Betty Jane Biggs, Ass't New* Corrine Wignes, Executive Editor Secretary Ray Schrick, Ass’t Managing Johnnie Kahananni, feature Editor Editor UPPER BUSINESS STAFF \lvera Maeder, Classified Advertising Man Bill Wallan, Circulation Manager ager Emerson Page, Promotion Director Ron Alpaugh, Layout Production Manager Janet Farnham, Office Manager The Fight Goes On rJ''HERE will be no sophomore informal this term and that, is pretty definite. Heads of the class of ’43 met yesterday afternoon and with the recommenflation of the University infirmary staff and the administration before them decided to postpone their annual fall term frolie. The large number of cases of influenza on the campus and 1 the danger of spreading germs at such an affair were con sidered too great to permil the dance being held. The sopho mores realized this and took the initiative in calling the dance off. The opinion of the infirmary staff has not changed in the last few days as it may seem from previous various stories. A statement attributed to an infirmary official in yesterday’s Emerald was a wrong interpretation of what he said. Dr. L. S. Porter, assistant physician, told a member of the sophomore publicity committee that the severity of the cases was less— not that the actual number of cases had decreased. * # * COMEHOW in the passing of the story from 1 he sophomore publicity department to an Emerald reporter the mean ing that Dr. Porter had said there was no reason for post poning the dance was conveyed. It is a tribute to the sophomores that they took the initiative to postpone the dance. They stood to lose a great deal by that move—a great deal of planning, of work, and of money. It, seemed the best thing to do, however, and in a few short minutes they threw out weeks of work. Their ability to come back after a disappointing setback was immediately shown when they began making plans for a dance next term. Although everything is tentative as yet preparations have already begun. “It is the second effort, after the first has brought dis appointment, that test the quality of a man or an age,’’ says Sir Arthur Salter, noted economist. The sophs are showing up well in the second effort. A Change of Mind J^ESS has been said of the several current wars among cam pus students this past week than at any other period I his term. Quite likely the cause may he traced to the Saturday success at Corvallis, the Monday celebration in Eugene or the nearness of final examinations. Nevertheless, our minds have been occupied with many more thoughts unrelated to Japan’s “incident,” Germany’s “luftwaffe,” England’s superior morale, and Italy’s military boners. Thank God for that! As long as we seem more concerned about localized affairs, Hitler’s “war of nerves” will lie less effective. Using our undergraduate citizenry as test tube objects, we feel the prob ing minds of military intelligence officers may be able to induce some solution. Perhaps such mental activity is more healthy than brooding on distant wars and should be encour aged. Perhaps not. Anyway, we’ll drop the subject of war right here before fretting faces are encouraged.—R.N.Y. That Tests the Quality CINCE the first beginning of that occasion called Christmas in a little town named Bethlehem, the world has come to recognize through the ages hundreds of special customs that to different people of the world mean the Christmas season. One of the loveliest and most humanitarian, as well as the . most Christian-like, is that American tradition of buying tuberculosis seals. The annual seal sale began yesterday on the campus under the sponsorship of the Tuberculosis Association of America ; ... in booths on Thirteenth street, in campus living orgauiza \ tions. The gay new seals, already beginning to decorate fa it h - | ful letters home, picture three carolers singing Yuletide songs ; • they bear the double-barred red cross that typifies the fight against tuberculosis. With the launching of the drive conies a ■ chance for Oregon students to add their small part to the uni versal fight that must be made to stamp out the disease. Tuberculosis has already assumed great proportions in this ■ country . . . and no relaxing of the campaign is possible. # # # T?AOH living organization is expected to buy at least $5 . worth of the seals This amount, is certainly the minimum that should be given by 40 students . . . for the fight is for the ) future of the nation that is theirs. A large percentage of tuber ; oulosis today appears in the age group between IS and so protection of college-age students will not be a small part of • the program made possible during 1941 by the sale of this j ear's ( hristmas seals. Too many times m the face of the modern interpretation of . Christmas with its emphasis on turkey and gift-receiving, people neglect to stop and remember why Christmas exist,. It is good for Americans that there is a custom that all can ■ take part in . . . a custom that helps one to stop in the midst of ■ this highly commercialized world of ours and think for a moment of others.— II \ After having to postpone their dance because of an epo demit* of mflueu/n the sophomores should adopt ' The 1 hi Germ's Ball" as the theme of their w inter term dance. Juioui yeai. at tin University there js at least one tbiug >u ha.ea't learned—Low to take a good Orcgaua picture. wright or wrong With TOMMY WRIGHT (Dear Tommy:) I don’t see how people can start a letter with such sweet salutations and then say the things they do in the body of the letter. The fick leness of it all leads me to be lieve they are all written by women. But use of words over one syllable leads me to believe they are written by men. WHO IS ’’CALIF” . . . One note informs me that the possibilities are narrowed down to two. Quote—Odds favor cur ly-haired “Lou Lowry, last year’s “Sweetheart of Alpha Chi,” though it is rumored that his roommate and better half, “Glbby the Goat” Roberts is in there pitching hard to grab the title—unquote. Maybe it is Queen Kroopnick, who even Dean Morse can't ar bitrate with. What do you think? From the Alpha Chis comes the denial of ever having written to YT about “Calif.” THIS WEEK . . . While breezing through the publication “The Japan Times Weekly’’ we ran across the word KAPPA. According to the accompanying article the word means a fabulous creature of the rivers, ponds, lakes, and seas, usually represented like a child about three to ten years old. Looks like a child with an ugly face. . . . Its skin is green ish-yellow, and at the top of its head is a little cavity contain ing water . . . looks like a mon key, with a long nose and round eyes . . . Its hands and feet are webbed. Any reference to persons on this campus is purely up to them. CAMPUS WHISPERS . . . Mary Thomas, Delta Delta Delta, with Les “Brummel” An derson, of the DUs . . . Jean Van Fossen, Alpha O takes charge of Wilbur Greenup's Sig Ep pin . . . Canard club’s How ard Lemons really gets in some interesting conversations in his sleep, we hear . . . understand that Art Npriok of Campbell co-op instituted a ’’blitzliebe’’ (blitz meaning lightning, and liebe meaning love, in the case of Adele Kiggs of Hilyard house—He came, he saw, and she conquered . . . and Phil Sin nott-Phil Shaffer go on forever . . . everyone was with everyone, else at the rally dance . . . what about all those dates we had fixed up for the soph huddle and hop. . . . Mildred Wilson wins a Theta Chi pin from Ben Wohler. International By RIDGELY Past dead and wounded and piles of hastily abandoned war materials, Greek soldiers last night were reported to be enter ing the outskirts of Porto Edda, the Italian's southernmost port of entry into Albania. The Greek advance north into Albania was said to have fol lowed violent fighting in which members of Italy’s crack Ber sagliri regiments who had been rushed in as reinforcements were taken prisoners. Reports from Rome were meager and repeated the old story about the Italian lines holding firm, but weight of evi dence seems to be on the side of the Greeks. Last week when we were busily occupied writing obitu aries of the last Genro and the boy plunger of Wall street the wire carried stories, from vari ous Balkan cities, telling how the Italians were taking regi ments which had retreated un der fire and without permis sion and shooting every tenth man. These border reports are not always to be accepted at their face value and it is possible that the stories were canards. But there is little doubt that Italy is using desperate measures in an attempt to stop the Greek advance. Fascist "suicide squads” are said to figure prominently in the fighting. From Vichy, France, comes a story about how the Portuguese premier is sounding out the European belligerents on the chances of bringing about a ne gotiated peace. The man's name is Salazar and his argument is said to be that only four European na tions are actually at war—Bri tain, German, Italy, and Greece. But seven nations -— France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Poland, and Albania— are occupied and blockaded into near starvation; and five other nations Turkey, Jugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Swe den—can’t pursue a normal peace time course because of the need to keep great bodies of men mobilized in an effort to prevent invasion and prevent being dragged into the war. Salazar has something in his arguments but, as Rabelais pointed out 400 years ago, the best time to propose peace is when both sides are thoroughly worn out with fighting. The quick way in which Pope Pius’ appeal for a Christmas truce was knocked in the head indi cates that neither side is quite ready to quit. But good luck to Premier Sa lazar. Veteran Senator Hiram Johnson doesn't see eye to eye with him apparently, for the old-time isolationist predicted LOW RAIL FARES For a Merry Xmas Trip Home ON SALE DEC. 18-21 Return Limit, Jan. 7 PORTLAND $^.75 ROUNDTRIP Special parties being or ganized to Klamath Kalis, San Francisco, and Los Angeles at greatly reduced rates Organize your party and save. NORTHBOUND Trams northbound leave Eugene dailv at 12 .L't> PM. and t .'JOT M. SOUTHBOUND l.oave Eugene (via Klamath Falls') 12:0-1 1’ M 1.03 AM. . 1 :M AM. — To Ashland 11:25 I’M. RETURNING - peoial tram leaves Portland Wednesday, January 1 at 0.30 I’.M. Tickets and information at Booth on Thirteenth St , between Oregon and Commerce Buildings. Sponsored by l. oi 0. ^SkOCLsTED &IUDLM& Side Show CUMMINGS last night that the U.S. is sure to get into the war. "I will make every effort of which I am capable to prevent repeal or emasculation of the little act which bears my name,” he told reporters, refer ring to the Johnson act which forbids U.S. loans to nations in default of their war debts. “I strenuously object on grounds of common sense to fighting another fellow's war on our money,” Johnson said. But last night Henry Ford saw the other side of the shield. “If England wants money, I say give it to her,” he said. “That's what it's for.” Take your pick, ladies and gentlemen, and I’ll see you manana. This is our night to be objective. Oregon ^Emerald Thursday Advertising Staff: Mary K. Riordan, manager Maxine Cunning Barbara Crosland Elizabeth Edmunds Mary Reimers Mary Ellen Smith Helene Wilmot Copy Desk Staff: Mary Ann Campbell, copy editor Mary Wolf, assistant Betty Gregg • Ted Goodwin Laurel Gilbertson Helen Jones Lee Flatberg Night Staff: Ruth Jordan Phil Burco Night Co-editora Jim Wilson Norma Rogers Betty Hughes Betty Reymers BRINGS THE MEN ON YOUR LIST A NEW HIGH IN. • Warmth • Comfort • Style! MEN’S COZY CUBS'OQft Deep fur-like shearling on the outside in rich solid colors — and lined with shearl ing, too, for warmth! •Eiclusive with Penney's niNMfr «• .. FoT^eolty Me.ry Chr.stm05 FIRESIDE I I I * I 'S f I I I I I ! Men’s ROBES Warm Gabardines lie'll m a r v e 1 at the warmth and light weight of these smart robes! New styles iu rich solid colors. The expensive looking tai loring includes notch or shawl collars, roomy pock ets and fringed sashes. Men’s ROBES 2-98 Solid colors, checks and all-over patterns in Whiten ton blanket cloth! Big pockets. Braided sashes! Lounging ROBES i Rayon Satin TrimmedI •jlf Dressy robes in ^ fine cotton and | rayon jac quardl With shawl collars, fringed sashes. I RURAL RHYTHM! Lum and Abner in ‘Dreaming Out Loud’ with Frances Langford MHOSALP FUN GALORE! James Stewart and Rosalind Russell in “No Time for Comedy” — pins — “World in Flames” v-ith Albert J Richards ... i MYSTERY! “The Mummy’s Hand” with Peggy Moran and Dick Foran — plus — Andy Devine and Richard Arlen in ‘The Devil’s Pipeline’ TWO BIG FEATURES! “Dr. Kildare Goes Home” with Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore — plus —- ■ - ‘Rangers of Fortune’ with Pat Morrison and Fred Me Mur? ay HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT OUR GIFT SHOP?... 1004 Will. St. TERM PAPER BLUES??? Cram over our , study time specials MALTS SHAKES HOT DRINKS THE POLAR BEAR ’ Highway 99 at Moss FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST EUGENE, OREGON Announces a FREE LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Entitled—Christian Science : The Revelation of Real Being VIOLET KER SEYMER, C. S. B. of Boston, Massachusetts A member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston Massachusetts WOODROW WILSON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 650 12th Avenue West FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1940 At 8:00 p.m. The Public is Cordially Invited to Attend What kind of Math do you call this? It sounds crazy—but let's see how it would be perfectly possible in the telephone business. Suppose an improved method is devised that clips just one second from the time required to handle one toll ticket in the accounting de partment. Apply this method throughout the Bell System — handling an average of some 55.000,000 toll tickets each month-and it would effect a monthly saving of nearly 134 years! A second saved here, an unnecessary step cut out there—on such close attention to ' little things rests the Bell System’s ability to provide the finest, fastest, cheapest tele phone service in the world. Why not telephone home often? long Distonce rates to most points are lowest any night after P. M 2-d 2I! dsy Sur.day.
