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Oregon# 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 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 Olney, Helen Angell Jimmie Leonard, Managing Editor Kent Stitzer, News Editor Fred May, Advertising Manager Hob Rogers, National Advertising Manager Editorial and Business Offices located on ground floor of Journalism building. Phonos 43(JU Extension: 382 Editor; 353 News Office; 359 Sports Office; and 354 Business Offices. ti Erickson. Women’* Editor i Kenyoi., Photo Editoi <ob Flavelle Co-Sports Editor rn Christianson, Co-Sports Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Wes Sullivan, Ass’t News Editor Betty Jane Biggs, Ass’t News Editor Ray Schrick, Ass’t Managing Tom Wright, Ass’t Managing Editor Corrine Wignes, Executive Secretary Johnnie Kahananni, feature UPPER BUSINESS STAFF \lvera Maeder, Classified Advertising Man Bill Wallan, Circulation Manager ager Emerson Page, Promotion Director Hon Alpaugh, Layout Production Manager Janet Farnham, Office Manager Keep Out the Dogs npHK University of Oregon campus is going to the dogs. In increasing numbers the four-footed noise makers have been taking over every rally, every athletic contest, and al most every class. They have sneaked in refusing to pay and ignoring the clutches of a number of ticket takers hired to keep them out. For the most part the dogs have been coaxed or helped in by some student. These self-appointed dog lovers have taken it upon themselves to get their house pet into the event—have . done this although they know the dogs have no place there. . There have always been a great many dogs running around - the campus. In fact that is one of the things old grads expect . to sec when they return. Dogs are fine pets and no one objects ! to them when they are kept at home, but they have no place 1 at assemblies or other events. • * # ; the ASUO rally assembly Monday the dogs kept up a ' constant barrage, so much so, that Coacli Tex Oliver was ■ forced to recognize the canine audience. It showed poor ■ consideration for him and for the other speakers upon the part of the students who brought the dogs there. Even at the basketball games officials are kept busy herd ing dogs. The athletic department has done all they can 1o keep the dogs out. They have even hired four dog catchers—students paid to keep the dogs out. Yet they seem to be getting no where, mainly because someone has let, or called, the dog . back in each time he was put out. If houses must parade their dogs before the student body perhaps the ASUO should, as Tex Oliver says, have a dog show. But until that time the dog lovers would earn the gratitude of all if they would leave their pet in that little • shelter marked “Fido.” Look at the Queens gHADES of Cleopatra! A fellow just can’t get around this campus any more but what he meets a queen of something or other. It seems as if every special weekend, every dance of the school year, and any other campus event must have its own queen. Originally there was just one queen every year—the junior weekend queen. Then we had a Little Colonel. Well, that wasn’t so bad. But now we have to put up with Daisy Maes, Betty Coeds, law school weekend queens, and ideal couples. Oh sure, we know that they aren’t all called queens. They’re called Daisy Maes or Betty Coeds instead but it’s all the same. # # # ^y^E admit that it is probably good publicity for a dance to elect some coed a special queen for the affair and an nounce the winner at the hop. But we’d like to point out that • any good publicity stunt, if it is used too much, loses its effectiveness. And students will soon come to the point where 1 they won’t be “sheltered” into going to every dance on the ! campus because the election of a queen (or the affair is to he ’ announced. ’ It is rapidly coming to the point where the election of ; queens for campus social events will approach the heights of • the ridiculous. Before long students won’t even he able to ■ hold their own house dances without electing a queen. Soon the campus slogan will he, “Every coed a queen.” Well, per haps that is a little far-fetched but it would seem to he tho eventual result of all this ‘‘queen electing.” Won’t someone please give us a dance without a queen? —li.O. A Big Order JT^EAR Santa : ■ I hope you won't mind my sending this letter so early, hut 1 suppose you get in a frightful rush later on and 1 would like for you to be sure to see this. 1 wish you'll do something about 1041. I have thought the matter over rather seriously, and it seems that there is no our else 1 ean turn to. People have been tinkering with the situation without getting anywhere. Nobody does anything. They just let things happen. ; in the first plaee, do you think there will be a 1941 ? It looks rather doubtful sometimes, doesn’t it? There really hasn't been any sense to 194U at all. and 1 should think that it bothered you the way it bothers me, you'd want to ehuuge 1041 a bit. Put I'm sure you’ll do the best you ean. Ihauk mu, Santa Claus. Sincere!v, FE. P S. It y ou 'll its th-’. - things up. I 1! take the jee skates off jny list. Hie him* ribbon tui real planning this week goes to the A\S S head., who : ehodulcd tln-ir assembly and auction for the same time. “Flu Germ; Postpone Fiance. ' say* an Emerald head. A new name ior the .sophomores ? The Emerald was in error—one law school student did - ^y y ) • •"'v/' •• • " *. * "* "Bunny" CHICAGO, IN 1935 TOUTED 499 SUCCESSIVE FREE THROWS / 4000 SPECTATORS WATCHED HIM PERFORM THE FEAT. * Each year. THE PLEDGES OF KAPPA PHI LAMBDA AT WEST MINSTER CPLLE6E Ofg ARE REQUIRED TO MAKE 50 • GALLON! S OF APPLE-BUTTER/ v V • buckshot : THERE ARE 99 COLLEGES FOR MEMS 146 COLLEGES FOR WOMEN AND 424 CO-ED INSTITUTIONS IN THE U.S INCLUDING PROFESSIONAL, NEGRO, JUNIOR . AND NORMAL SCHOOLS THE TOTAL IS 1.709. In the Editors Mail (The flaw in the “When School” table in Wednesday’s Emerald, purporting to show that students actually go to school only one day a year, is simply that K.W.E. includes in the 154 days of vacations a large part of the !)1 days ol' sleep, the 104 days of Satur days and Sundays, etc. In other words he is counting the same thing twice.—Ed.) EPITAPH Flu germs to the left of them Flu germs to the left of them— Into the valley of mud Marched the 1,000. Sophomore Informal called off on account of flu— "Berkeley Square” draws near capacity audience—■ 1,000 ROTC students plod through mud, bogs, and rain to prepare for the nation’s defens es—-regardless of the fact that there is an epidemic of flu on the campus. If the nation is so interested in national defense, why don’t they look out for the nation's health ? It appears that the brass hats were a little pressed for time, so consequently the boys went through hell and high water anyway. Plan 1, 274, 909 states that the military de partment has so much time to accomplish this, so there is nothing to worry about. What is this thing called flu? Just a measily little bacteria in the rear rank. On former wet days, drill was held either under the drill sheds or out in the street, where at least the water goes in some convenient gutter. For two hours the boys did the manual of arms—and in doing so darned near froze their feet off. Two hours of tromping beat that wet ground into a froth. Those who had smoothed up be fore drill came back looking like somebody that came off the latest freight. Rain? What if it DOES rain —March a little faster and keep up your circulation. The Health Service called off the Soph Informal — “Berkeley Square” still goes on, of course. You don’t hear of the produc ers calling off their variety show. If the audience coughs— just talk a little louder so that they can hear you. It all adds to this—The gov ernment in their preparedness program hasn’t alloted time out for the flu. I Should Have Skipped. Eugene, Oregon December 1, 1940 Dear Editor: I like dogs. Some of my best friends are dogs, but I don’t think they have an integral place in our assemblies or con cert series. Tex Oliver’s remark about a dog show was a mild way of mentioning the canine members of the audience. It seems to be a sort of tra dition to have barking dogs ac company the program, and it will probably hurt the feelings of many dogs if they are re fused admittance, but after all, the speakers do deserve more consideration. Can something be done? Thank you, Phyllis Sanders * * * (We heartily agree. Some thing should be done about the dogs. We don’t know what ex cept to ask the houses to leave their pets at home. Please see the editorial on this page.— Ed.) If the Shoe Fits— By J.E.M. Here's to those who'd love us If we only cared. Here's to those we'd love If we only dared. Rumors—and more rumors fly around with the flu perms these days. But we all sit and wonder what will really happen. Have you heard the tale of hav ing no finals at all—and grades standing as they are at pres ent??? Then there's the one about placing the whole school in quarantine and spending our Christmas vacation here. But the worst is having finals after vacation So it goes—idle rumor! Speaking of what we’ve heard— It seems there's been one more broken heart this week— Shirley Gillett. Theta soph, broke her date this weekend to go out with 'Blondie'' Back. Sigma Chi who's up from Palo Alto for a short nai* Speaking of the Sigma Chi s Gordon Hoy doesu * approve ot pm planting—and so bis steaciv Theta. Helen Jane Kerr doesn t. stand a chance of getting his white cross Would it be too embarrassing to get m the. : took.-. Gordon ? ? The tiny I'G . Jean I-alboy. seems to have her hands full these days with the Greeks, t h:- s b.-sn s. -n about wn j a Beta, a Fiji, and a Flu Dclt. Dutch Rohwer has been having a. hard time these days making up his mind about the Alpha Chis—Better stick to your first gal, Dutch, they're always the best! We wonder why Leonard Card is walking these days— Seems a little unusual for him. In case of corns, better get larger shoes. It is reported that Art Lowther, Sig Ep, suffered so terribly from his broken heart when Betty Gustaffson gave lus pm back, that he de cided to leave school. A Line or Two By WEN BROOKS The Sunday New York Times features a column in its amuse ment section titled "From Be low/ the Equator” which carries bits of color and amusement news from the Latin American republics. The column on No vember 24 was devoted to pic tures then showing in Rio de Janiero (where most folks, of course, speak Portuguese). According to the writer, American movies are the favor ites there. English newsreels are applauded, most Portuguese being pro-American and pro English in spirit . . . but at the same time, there is no hissing of German pictures. The writer pointed out that Brazil’s president, Getulio Var gas, realizes he must keep his country neutral, especially since it is nearer to Germany and Italy than Britain or the Unit ed States. Incidentally, Vargas seems to come in for his share of the celluloid in newsreels . . . if anything, outdoing our own Mr. LaGuardia in this re spect. It’s All in a Name One American film playing at the time in Rio, literally translated, was titled "The Wind Took It.” Back here we remember the picture as one starring a Mr. Gable and one Miss Leigh, namely, "Gone With the Wind.” While on Latin America . . . a quip from Robert Quillen’s paragraphs (featured in the Ra leigh, N. C., News and Observ er) : “No wonder Latin Ameri cans don’t understand our de mocracy. The losing candidate up here needn’t keep running after the race is over.” Can’t Beat Irish You can’t beat the Irish for story telling. The Irish would simply say, “You can't beat the Irish!” At any rate, The Wall Street Journal recently told of the Irishman who had been with the B.E.F. at Dunkerque. In recounting his narrow es cape, Pat said, “The bullet went in me chest and came out me back.” “But,” his friend protested, “it would have gone through your heart and killed you!” “Me heart was in me mouth at the time,” came the quick reply. He Got It Another story credited to the Patricks (Your Life Magazine) is that of the Irishman who walked into the office of the late J. T. Harahan, president of the Illinois Central railroad, and said, “My name’s Casey. I want a pass to St. Louis. I work in the yards.” “That’s no way to ask for a pass,” Mr. Harahan retorted. “You should introduce yourself politely. Come back in an hour and try it over again.” At the end of the hour Casey returned, hat in hand. “My name's Patrick Casey," he said. "I've been working out in the. yards.” “Glad to know you, Mr. Ca sey. What can I do for you?” “You can go to hell,” said Tat. “I've got a job and a pass on the Wabash.” GET YOUR CHRISTMAS CARDS at the “untvtco^op XMAS CARDS and GIFTS NEXT TO HEGIBTEK-GUAFD Phone 397 International Side Show By RIDGELY CUMMINGS While a British coastal town shook under a “coventrating” air attack yesterday and the Royal Air Force made a twelve hour raid on Dusseldorf in Ger many and Turin in Italy, the Cummings IXUUQb WJ. mons in I,ondon jumped hard on a tentative peace feeler. Three Scotch laborites intro d u c e d an amendment in the house call ing for a state ment of Brit am s war aims ana asking tnat peace be sought immediately, in a spirit of compromise if nec essary, because “there is no certainty of a great military victory.” The move was overwhelming ly defeated, 341 to 4. Three la borites and a communist voted yes and two other backers of the move acted as vote count ers and so didn’t ballot. Still Some Democracy As Clement R. Atlee, labor party leader, remarked in the course of the debate denouncing the peace move, such a proposal probably could not have been made in another warring coun try. In addition to indicating that Britain’s situation is quite serious, and that’s common knowledge, it also showed that there is still some democracy over there even in time of war. But one wonders if the rea son behind British rejection of peace feelers from Portugal, Turkey, and Pope Pius XII might not be that the English are hoping for considerably more aid from the U.S. Follow ing the remark of Jesse Jones, federal loan administrator, that he considers Britain a “good risk” for loans, came Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgen thau’s “me too” yestefday. Clark Is Startled Senator Clark, Missouri iso lationist, said in the senate that he was “very much startled.” He demanded that congress in vestigate the "very large re sources of the British Empire” and pointed out that Britain had never repaid the large loans from his country during the last world war. Meanwhile in Moscow the So viet government said that its policy toward China remains unchanged. 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Pass. a high-sounding title, had seen a danger of Russia succumbing to Japanese overtures, figuring that the United States would go to bat all alone for China. Russia Is Quiet Russia is comparatively quiet these days but she now occu pies the place that Britain once held. The Soviets hold the bal ance of power while the capital istic world is pretty well paired off into equal sides. Back home, we learn that the stock market is still “dom inated by paralyzing uncertain ties’’ and is drifting to a low ebb. We don’t know what the gamblers are uncertain about. The way we see it this nation is heading straight into the maelstrom and should be up to its (and our) neck by summer if an armistice doesn’t come first. Two more pleasant subjects— Time flies and what do you know, little Deanna Durbin, who is now 19, is gonna get married. The lucky man is Vaughn Paul, a movie produc er. It’s All Over A mild form of flu is sweep ing over the west coast. Influ enza “A” they call it and it is affecting 10 to 20 per cent of the population in some areas. In San Quentin prison 215 men are hospitalized with it, in Camp Murray, about 1,400 guardsmen, and here on the Oregon campus there were 29 in the infirmary yesterday. We were reminded of this last night when Tom Potter ap proached the gang at dinner and asked before he sat down, if we minded a few teeny weeny germs. It was in 1918 that the last pandemic of influenza swept the nation, but that was influ enza “B,” which is supposed to be much more serious. Ah, well-a-day. Pass the cough drops please. Oregon# Emerald Friday Advertising Staff: Jean Adams, manager Anita Backberg Anita Hamprecht Helen Moore Warren Roper Night Editors: Barbara Jean Vincent Stan Weber Herb Penny Copy Desk: Wes Sullivan, city editor Elsie Brownell, assistant Betty Gregg Charles Woodruff Betty Jane Biggs Mary Ann Campbell. 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