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Reorganization in Rally...Again
, JT is becoming almost an annual, or at least bi-annual, thing
to reorganize the rally committee. This reorganization, we
might add, usually has been to no avail—the gravy train arid
inefficiencies have continued to spoil even the good work
done by the various committees.
This year another attempt will be made at reorganization.
Again the rally setup will he under fire with a special com
' mittee of three appointed by Prexy Payne attempting to
make sense out of nonsense and outline a program which will
prove of value to the student body.
The committee will have two courses of action. The first
will he to recommend abolition of the rally group and the
second, if the first is unacceptable, will be to recommend a
change in the setup so that an efficient rally setup will he
established.
The first proposal will undoubtedly meet with considerable
' campus appeal. For years there have been cries of “do away
with the rally committee,” “down with the rally committee,”
etc. Indeed it seems as if the rally group has been the scape
goat for everything which failed to function properly at
assemblies, rally dances, and parades.
There is a place for a good rally squad, however, their work
in organizing pep assemblies, etc., is needed. Some committees,
particularly the one this year, have been very active and
deserve much credit for the work they have done. Therefor,
any attempt to do away with the committee entirely is to be
avoided if possible.
# # *
JF the committee decides to follow the second course some
very important changes in the present rally setup must be
made. A few of these suggested changes arc:
1. Setting iqi an accurate budget with all expense items
listed and providing for authorization by the student
executive committee in case any shifting of funds Irom
one part of the budget to another is made.
2. Setting up separate budgets for the veil and rally
squads instead of a joint budget as at present.
3. Provisions that the expenditures of both rally and
yell squad must be accounted for in the form of receipts
and a complete financial report be published in the Em
erald at the end of each term.
4. A new system of appointments, preferably by the
outgoing executive committee, to eliminate the oppor
tunities of political appointments.
5. Closer supervision of the committee by the executive
committee of the ASUO.
6. Several changes in the activities of the committee.
# # #
JF a sound, workable program, based upon the above reforms
can be worked out and presented to the executive committee
the rally setup may be greatly improved. At least the causes
for a faculty ruling abolishing the committee entirely will be
eliminated.
Pills, F ud lings, and Peace
£|EVERAL weeks ago we thought of withholding the mean
ingless “Merry Christmases” written on two-for-a-niokel
cards until December 25th had gone out with the 1040 calen
dar. After that brief season, we thought minds might be a hit
clearer after stuffed turkeys, spiced wines, rich plum pud
dings—the problems of girth control -had been reduced to
mere memories of recent stomach ailments by pills and effer
vescent acid neutralizing agents. We also thought our ac
quaintances might lie less busy after toy cannons, gaudy ties,
bargain-counter stockings—the problems of Yulctide reci
procity—had Ijcmi hidden under the pyramid of pretty hut
mistreated tinsel and tissue so recently wrapped around these
gifts.
Then, when normal life had caught up with the artificialities
of this gift-giving season, we thought our friends might want
to know something about this yearly spree. They might have
forgotten in this hate-filled twentieth century it had a history
hinting hack twenty centuries to the birth of a Bethlehem
Babe who made the first syllabic of Christmas, which is
Christ, mean more to millions than X—the unknown quantity
—the first syllable of Xmas. Wo thought that sayings such as
“Peace on earth, good will to men” and the seasonal strains
of “Adeste Fidelis” might contain meanings that couldn’t
be ballooned tip in our selfish minds for lit) 1 days and suddenly
punctured by the prick of conscience on the e\r of December
25th to blow but two cycles of the hour baud.
Then we remembered similar advice had been soap-box
orated e'er nru'c ministers aud philosopher^ had begun gat
ing at the heavens ’ We read Van Loon's sentence in hi
“Story of Mankind Vor history is like life. The more
things change, the more they remain the same ' But claimed
by neurosis from fidgety living and m the baste to hear late
newscasts and read current trout pages of “wars and rumors
of wars” we scribbled “Merry Christmas,” sigued our names,
addressed the envelopes, and shoved the> hole blooming stack
into the over-worked jaw... of the corner mailbox — R.N V.
Weekend note. A good time was had by all . . . but the
aeigkbar*. ...... ...____ _ . ... .... ...
The One Casualty
JO EGLSTRATION is over ami the University is settling down
to the routine of classes, studying, and social events.
Many familiar faces that we have grown used to seeing about
1 the campus are gone. Students drop out for one reason or
another. But one former Oregon student is gone forever.
, E'dwood Swane has taken his last final.
On the records, Swane will be listed as the only casualty
resulting from the recent flu epidemic. Swane, a graduate
student in education, left for home at the end of exam week
last month after having been in bed with the flu for a couple
i of days. Influenza became pneumonia and the next day, De
cember 22, Swane died at his home in Campbell, California.
It is always with a pang of regret that we hear of these
things even when we don’t know the person involved. He was
an Oregon student and, in a sense, necessarily a friend though
not an acquaintance. We are deeply grieved that such a thing
should occur.
rp'IIUS it is, that we were shocked when stories came to us
stating that infirmary doctors had released Iho youth,
told him to go home, said he was all right. Then caution began
to assert itself. Rumors usually have few facts to support
them and investigation showed that these stories were no
exceptions.
Infirmary doctors might have made some mistake during
the epidemic. Perhaps they made grievous mistakes. We do
not know. But, it would seem, that in the case of Edwood
Swane they could not he held responsible.
The facts, so far as they are known at present, are as
follows. Swane became ill with the flu on December 19. His
landlady (he lived in a private residence) called the infirmary
and asked them to move him out so the others in the house
would not be exposed to the influenza.
A doctor called on Swane and found that lie was, indeed,
to all appearances ill with the flu. He had a temperature
slightly above normal. He was not taken to the infirmary.
The infirmary already was crammed to capacity. Swane was
told, instead, to go to bed and it he did not get bettor to
call the infirmary again and have a doctor come down to see
him. This, it was reported, lie did not do. He went to bed but
did not stay there, getting up and going out for his meals.
# # *
rJ"'WO days later, without seeing the infirmary doctors
he left for California. A casual remark which lie made to
a friend caused all the rumors. His friend had objected to his
going home because he appeared quite sick. Swane replied
that the doctors had told him he was all right.
It is unusually easy to trace the growth of the rumors from
that start. Ordinarily it is much more difficult to find the
basis for such stories. If these are the facts of the case, as they
seem to be, the infirmary doctors can hardly be held responi
ble when their advice was not followed.—II.0.
International Side Show
By ItTDGELY CUMMINGS
Yesterday was a big day all
around.
Bardia, town in Italian Libya
near the Egyptian border, was
Cummings
in the hands or
the British. It
fell Sunday un
der the assault
o f Australian
shock troops
who, an Asso
ciated Press re
porter wrot e,
charged into Ital
ian fire singing
“We’re Off to
See the Wizard, the Wonderful
Wizard of Oz!”
There have been a lot of
screwy battle cries which ex
hilirated men have shouted as
they ran up to the cannon's
mouth, but that one takes the
cake as far as I’m concerned.
Maybe it has some mystical sig
nificance, such as a hunch that
if they get killed they will meet
the Wizard of Oz somewhere be
low where good soldiers go. But
I doubt it and am more inclined
to think the words are incidental
and just happened to go with
some tune which expressed the
way the boys from down under
felt at the moment.
Australian losses were report
ed "surprisingly low,” less than
bOO men, while Italian casualties
were estimated at 15,000, plus
110,000 prisoners.
Bulgaria Next
The United Press carried a
copyright story to the effect
that Bulgaria, a Balkan nation
of six million people about the
size of Kentucky, has acquiesced
to a Nazi ultimatum and that
within a few days German
troops will march in.
This means, if events prove
that United Press informants
are correct, that the Nazis will
be in position to make a drive
in two directions: 1. into Greece,
taking the pressure off its axis
partner, Italy: or into Turkey,
toward the Dardenelles, threat
ening the British life hu<' at
the Suez canal.
Russia May Object
Russia may have objections to
this second step since a Nazi
controlled Dardenelle:. would
block the Soviets from the
Mediterranean sea. But Russia
was silent last night and there
were Balkans rumors of a Nazi
Communist "deal' which would
give, Russia some, more, of Ru
mania in return for -dent con
sent
So much for e\ eats abroad
At home, m Washington, the
77th congress met m joint so
sion, counted the electoral votes,
and declared Franklin Delano
Roosevelt elected president with
449 to 82 for Willkie. Roosevelt
will be inaugurated for the third
time on January 20.
Then Roosevelt took the ros
trum to report on the state of
the union and foretold a phys
ical attack on the United atatc-s
‘‘if the dictator nations win this
war." He rejected the theory of
U. S. isolation from internation
al affairs and asked congress to
vote billions in war assistance to
the democracies which are
fighting the “new order of
tyranny" of the axis powers.
I1 our r reedoms
At the same time that he
called for a “swift and driving
increase’' in armament produc
tion, Koosevelt spoke of ‘Tour
essential human freedoms”
which are to bo attained
through disarmament. These
freedoms, the basis of a new
moral order, are freedom of
speech, freedom of worship,
freedom from want, and “free
dom from fear, which, translat
ed into world terms, means, a
world-wide reduction of arma
ments to such a point and in
such a thorough fashion that
no nation will be in a position
to commit an act of physical
aggression against any neigh
bor—anywhere in the world.”
Koosevelt said a lot more but
if you missed it—I was taking
part in a discussion of primi
tive man as an artist at 11 a. in.
when he spoke—you'll have a
chance to read the text, and T
think it would be more inter
esting right now to hear some
of the reactions.
Said editorially the Chicago
Daily Tribune: ”Thc President
revealed himself ... to be in
an excited frame of mind. The
text, filled as it is with alarms,
hasty generalizations, contra
dictions, and threats to Euro
peans and Americans alike, is
not the work of a man facing
a situation dispassionately . . .”
\\ heeler Objects
Said Senator Burton K.
Wheeler This speech was di
rectly contrary to the advice
given by Washington. Jefferson.
Jackson, and Lincoln. To cal!
attention to this, however, prob
ably is sufficient to brand one
as a fifth columnist. '
Said the Chicago Journal of
Commerce: ' Most anyway you
look at it . . . the speech . . .
marked the end of our alleged *
neutrality '
Said the Dallas Morning
News: “The President has in
disputably declared var on the.
wright
or
wrong
With TOMMY WRIGHT
The rains that came last fall
are still here, so mud is at no
premium, but maybe we can
glean a few morsels from the
passing parade.
CAMPUS WHISPERS . .
Eadie Yturri, Alpha Chi dark
and glamorous, didn't like Bob
Flavelle’s Duck Tracks dig at
Vic Townsend; Vic has an Ig
loo rendezvous with the Neilson
family, then plants his pin on
Eadie the same evening. You
make the connections to suit
your own taste . . . Buck “the
chubby duck” Buchwach gains
distinction by taking a course
with 47 girls—If Fehler could
only see him now . . . Bill Por
ter, prexy of the Phi Sigs, was
seen in Spokane with a strange
girl—the place a hockey game.
. . . Bob Whitely, ATO and
enough said, plays Santa Claus
with a sweetheart pin delivered
to Kit Ritter, former UO Pifi.
Bette Christensen, Oregon's
new yell queen, makes a pass
at “Porky” Andrews, while
leading one of those sweeping
chants . . . “Little Abner” Wil
son, Sigma Nu—Mary Jane
Shaw, Gammafi, and Milo Dan
iels, Gammafi with A1 Hunt
getting lost on the McKenzie
highway and leaving a note
(with names signed; in the car)
Have left the car to walk to
the Sisters (twenty miles
away). We all WERE students
of the U. of O. - The blizzard
they ran into must pack a lot
of 3.2 punch. . . . Kim McKini
gets his ATO pin back from
Gammafi pledge Ann Hawkins.
DEFINITELY OFF
THE DATE LIST . . .
Alpha Chi Os Lavene McCol
lum and Fred Konschot of the
Sig Ep rabble make plans for a
February honeymoon . . . “third
finger, left hand”; a nice spark
ler, and Frantzel Corman get
together—compliments of Aus
tin “Suds” Chaney . . . Dorothy
Pyhtila, of Hendricks eliminates
Bob Chessman, Beta grad, from
the active list, by announcing
their marital plans . . . Mar
garet Barrett and Amos Jahn
announce their coming marriage
at a pre-Christmas party (a
note signed by a pair of loyal
ists, not Nazis, broke down and
gave us this Chi Omega tidbit
. . . The Hunter Van Sicklens
are looking for appliances in
the baby department these days.
OVERHEARD . . .
Betty Gregg, of Hilyard
house, saying; That any time
she slept at Campbell co-op it
would be on the third floor, be
cause Keith Claycomb makes
too much noise on the second.
Dr. Smith in a geology lec
ture saying: “There.are places
in the world where you could
buy a wife for a pound of salt.”
That isn't the only place wo
men are cheap, however.
NICE . . .
Beverly Hills’ gift to Hen
drick hall, Dorothy Walthers
Moving pictures aren't appar
ently the only good things
coming from that section of the
earth.
v Kinb ist-ws . . .
Our secret agents inform us
that some of the sororities may
resort to stuffing the nickel
boxes to win the "hop" prize,
and keep house prestige—what
Oregon needs is a trust buster.
CONCLUSION • . .
t his colm has more engage
ments than a booking agent and
if we haven't satisfied your
immoral curiosity, wc are truly
sony ... so long for a while.
totalitarian powers. . ."
Said a member of the speech
department (heard second
hand): "Roosevelt's oration
compares with that of Demos
thenes against Philip of Mace
don. All you have to do is sub
stitute for Thebes and the Mac
edonians and Athens the Low
Countries and the Nazis and the
United States.”
Said Ridgely Cummings: "I'm
still an isolationist as far as
this war is concerned, although
I agree with the President that
" e need international coopera
tion to insure "freedom from
" ant 1 thnjk Roosevelt has a
Messiah complex and i* repeat
ing the mistakes of 1D17."
Gravel-voiced Andy Devine.
Hollywood comedian, was once
a football player at the Uni
versity ot Sau* a Clara
ISouth Dakota, tfate umver
aty recently dedicated a $76
oiK) addition to its C-rncg.s
so be it..
By BILL FEN'DALL
like toothpaste from out of the tube, slick, lengthy and crooked,
came the charge last week by CORVALLIS’ columnist editor,
CLAUDE E. INGALLS, that NAZIS are crooking the come-on finger
at “special students at the university” to attend NUTZI meetings . . .
it’s a photo-finish with six-bit cameras as to which CLAUDE
dislikes best . . . HITLER, ROOSEVELT, or the UNIVERSITY OF
• • • uv uu» no unv/ u
sawmill sawdust pile at the
mention of anyone of the three
—and he mentions them plenty
. . . some editors are as change
able as a woman with a room
full of furniture . . . but not
CLAUDE ... he columnments
on ROOSEVELT, is it “COU
SIN EERKINS,” CLAUDE?,
and others with politics as the
dessert course of his colm . . .
and to top it all CLAUDE isn’t
as bad a guy as he colmns him
self to be. . . .
but, C. E., let me direct your
easily - directed attention to
some talks on NAZIISM that
we have found here . . . there
was VOJTA BENES, brother
of the CZECH prexy . . . DR. F.
MUNK came down and told us
quite a bit about NAZIISM . . .
then this what-’is-name, the
former president of the
LEAGUE OF NATIONS, C. G.
HAMBRO, slyly brought the
subject up . . . he even had pic
tures of the “efforts” and
“changes" GERMANY has
made in the invaded countries
... he showed these to us,
CLAUDE, and we couldn't help
form an opinion of those who
wrought that change . . . yes,
CLAUDE, a definite opinion. . .
so you see, we have been to
what might be called NAZI
meetings . . . for that was the
main subject of this triad of
EUROPEAN speakers . . . uh,
huh, CLAUDIE, ole boy, this
time you seem to have let your
imagination run loose with your
information. . . .
mmmm, why did I say “this
time”? . . .
there is a senior on the cam
pus with a line as full as a
MONDAY washline who didn’t
speak to an eastem-OREGON
coed for three years ... al
though he certainly had the
chance put in his way . . . the
other day he found out that her
father owns an inland empire
of grain fields and is worth pul
enty . . . now he is satisfied she
is the only one in the world
for him—and he her . . . and
tells her so every night. . .
* * *
oh be she went
or am she gone?
oh! have she left poor I alone?
oh cruel fate how thus unkind
to take she ’fore
and leave I ’hind
oh—can it was ? . . .
campus quips . .. the soldier
band from FORT ORD CALI
The
BAND
BOX
By BILL. MOXLEY
Musicians’ magazine Down
Beat has just completed its
yearly poll of opinion on the
best musicians and the bands
they play for. From this poll
Down Beat has assembled the
All - American dream band.
Leaders are omitted. Here they
are:
Ziggy Elman, trumpet.
Muggsy Spanier, trumpet.
Cootie Williams, trumpet.
Johnny Hodges, alto
Eddie Miller, tenor.
“Tex” Beneke, tenor.
Kay Bauduc, drums.
Bob Haggart, bass.
Charlie Christian, guitar.
Jess Stacy, piano.
“Fazola,” clarinet.
Jack Jenney, tj-ombone.
Jay Higginbotham, trombone.
It so happens that Bob Cros
by has five musicians playing in
this dream band. His nearest
contender is Benny Goodman
who has two men represented.
Muggsy Spanier, Eddie Miller,
Ray Bauduc, Bob Haggart, and
Jess Stacy are all in the Crosby
band which will play here the
17th.
Still Fending
ASCAP and BMI are still at
dagger points, according to the
latest news. It seems a bit odd
to hear your favorite big name
band sign off the air with some
strange tune you’ve never heard
FORNIA PLAYING “PRAC
TICE MAKES PERFECT over
the network airways Sunday!
. . . dates were conscripted via
capsules in the fish bowl by
girls at the UNIVERSITY OF
INDIANA MORTAR BOARD
ball . . . those exempted were
conscientious objectors, those
with a wife as a dependent and
those under 16 and over 43 . . .
ANDY VINCENT, drawing
prof, who has a lot of face to
wash every morning, but little
hair to comb ... if today is
Tuesday then this must be my
reporting class ... so be it. .. .
them play before. Many a fam
Oregon WEmerald
Tuesday Advertising Staff: j
Elizabeth Dick, manager
Night Staff:
Bill Hilton, night editor
Grace Babbitt, assistant
Margaret Stark
Barbara Lamb
Neal Regin
Brian Thompson.
Copy Desk Staff:
Bernie Engel, city editor
Donald Ross
Mildred Wilson
Mary Wolf
Peggy Kline
Beverly Padgham
ous theme song- has gone on the
altar as a sacrifice to the $250
fine which will be levelled at
anybody playing an ASCAP
tune over the networks.
For a while Bing Crosby was
said to have threatened to go 1
off the air unless he was al
lowed to sing ASCAP tunes,
but he changed his mind later.
FCC Steps in
The government has added to
the general confusion by decid
ing to sue both ASCAP and
BMI because of the hardships
their feud is causing to the
public. So now it's a battle roy
al. In the meantime every dance
band from morn until night
plays the same eight tunes;
they all start out with Jcannie
“With the Dyed-Brown Hair’’
and end up with “Practice
Makes Perfect.”
Campus bandleader Ray Dick
son is starting the year with
an entirely new 11-piece band ^
that is going to feature a boo
gie woogie-Jimmy Lunceford
style of music. The band also
boasts a new theme song for
which the boys have high hopes.
It was written by band mem
bers and is called “Blue Noc
turne.” Ray and the new outfit
play their first engagement at
the park this Saturday.
Dresses
Start the
winter so
cial season
with a love
ly tailored
jt afternoon
date dress
in wool or
crepe. The
latest femi
nine styles
for those
special
dates—
1004 Willamette Ph. 633
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