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The Importance of Drive
QUARLES M. Ilulten’s talk to an Emerald audience last
night contained hits of philosophy which should not have
been confined to that small group. Mr. Hulten titled his talk
“Eat Wheaties,” and stressed the importance of drive in
various phases of journalistic work. He might just as well have
said “all work.”
The added quality in some leaders which carries them
beyond the mediocre has been the subject of many talks, of
many articles. It has gone under all kinds of names from
energy to gusto and has been preached to college students
probably ever since there have been colleges. 5 et it always
needs repeating.
Particularly does it need repeating at this time. The war in
Europe, with the possibility that it will spread to this country,
and the uncertainties of the future have caused many students
to adopt a “don’t care attitude.” The amount of slipshod
work during the last term has been greater than in any other
term in a great many years, most University professors will
agree.
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rJMIIS condition, it might be added, is not localized to the
University of Oregon campus. It is a condition which is
becoming more and more prevalent among the young people
of the nation. It, is difficult to plan for a future when there
might not be one, they feel.
It was, therefore, particularly appropriate that Mr. Ilulten
should stress the importance of energy—the importance of
going ahead—of driving towards a goal. Although his re
marks and examples of “lack of drive” were limited to cases
of journalism students, they were typical of a great many, of
the vast majority, of young people.
It. might pay us all to “eat a few more Wheaties” for
breakfast.
They Earned A Rest
JOE Gurley’s announcement yesterday that he is cancelling
the winter term athletic card drive because more cards
have already been sold this year than ever before is a startling
one. Particularly in the face of all the grumblings that came
forth on the University campus after the state board ruling
last spring that regular $15 activity cards would be eliminated
and a new athletic card system initiated.
It would appear that the poorly-received innovation of
adding two dollars to the registration fees of each term for
educational activity presentations, and the consequent sale
of cards purely for athletic purposes “hit the spot” with
student fans.
The 2500 cards sold since the beginning of fall term is an
indication of one of two things: either students like the idea
of segregating cultural and sports attractions and choosing
to partake of them as separate units; or Oregon’s athletic
teams this year have brought forth greater support than
before.
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JN any event, the success of the salt' is a credit to Gurley
and his staff of salesmen. They were working under an
altogether new system, had to sell a completely new idea to
a student body that was unresponsive to the change which
they believed had been forced on them against their will. The
sales staff did their job well . . . for Oregon likes the athletic
Card system, and responded to it better than to any similar
drive in recent years.
The drive crew deserves iis mid-winter rest.— II.A.
No Nightmares, Please
'T'HRLK times ;i year University students go through an
experience which has eommonlv become known on the
campus as the “nightmare of registration.” Students dash
hither and you across McArthur's polished floor with be
wildered looks on their faces. Advisers, with groups of wor
ried youngsters clustered about them, frantically attempt to
arrange their thoughts in an orderly manner. And the loud,
constant hum ot hundreds of voices drones maddeningly on.
This “nightmarish" experience seems to assume gigantic,
horrid proportions in the eyes of most University students.
It seems to confuse and befuddle everyone from the greenest
freshman to the most self-controlled senior. Ami yet it seems
to us that the maze of registration is becoming a little less
like a hall ol mirrors. Perhaps it is because we are getting
more experienced at it and are getting to know how to take
advantage of tlie breaks.
TOUT we are still inclined to think that the registration
system is becoming much simpler. "We seem to remember
spending the whole day wandering through the "nightmare
of registration tore, whole day and still not having finished
the first time we signed up in this institution. We seem to
remember being hopelessly confused, hopelessly enmeshed in
the angry whirlpool.
There is probably a long way to go. Registration is not
likely ever to become a pleasure but we hope and belie\o that
the process of simplification will be continued. Maybe some
day the registration officials v ill put us through the process
of entry v.->hcg\ so ru;h at * hint ei h 'baddtem—U.O.
THEY PILED UP 55 VICTORIES
• • • IN A ROW / • • •
Pittsburg Kansas st. teachers
COLLEGE- HOLDS' THE INTER
COLLEGIATE RECORD FOR
CONSECUT1VE BASKETBALL WINS.
ESTHER *"i> JANE CARLVLE,
GRADUATES OF WILLIAM SMITH
COLLEGE IN 1928, ARE SAID TO
BE THE OMLy TWINS EVER ELECT
ED TO PHI BETA KAPPA/
? CAN'T EVEN
START AN ,
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ONLY ONE PAYING CUSTOMER.
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PLAYED AT WALL A WALLA, WASH.
Oregon Hits Top
'JpiIE remarkable job of selling which has been done on the
Oregana this year could not have been apparent in tho
few figures given in the Emerald yesterday. The total of 2700
books is the largest order for Oreganas ever placed by the
ASUO. It represents an increase in the sale of books to almost
every source, the students, the faculty, outsiders, and others.
What is more remarkable about the present campaign is
the small amount of books remaining to be sold to students
during this term and spring term registration. Latest reports
made available to the educational activities board reveal that
only 75 books remain unsold. Contrast this with the 260 copies
sold in spring term registration last year and the result will
be evident. If the demand for books this spring equals that
of other years—and there is every reason to believe it will—
some 185 students will not get books. At least that many more
could have been ordered and sold.
Credit for the Oregana’s fine showing goes to a long suc
cession of editors who have made “All-American” books a
tradition, to a capable and well handled staff, and most
of all to Business Manager Dick Williams who, in his third
year in that position, has carried out the greatest sales cam
paign in Oregana history.
Parade of Opinion
By ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS
From across the Atlantic for the second time within the past
quarter century Britain proffers an empty pocketbook to support
pleas for financial aid from gullible Uncle Sam. It seems that noble
hearted England is always willing to adopt a cause and jump willing
ly into the fracas just as long as someone else can and will foot
the bill.
The primary check to such loans is of course the Johnson Act,
which prevents the extension of credit to any nation still financially
indebted to the United States from the 11 billion dollar spending
spree of 1917. Britain is in dire need of money; we can simply her
with that which she needs. But is the investment one that will pay?
In the financial realm, on the secretary of treasury’s report is a
five and one-half billion dollar debit marked against Great Britain.
Only a negligible amount has been repaid by England in the past
twenty years. This pittance payment has been one made by victorious
John Bull! Are we to toss cool cash after a bad debt only to have
England, should she win again, libel us as Uncle Shylock when we
begin to request pay?
On the other hand, if we turn our Fort Knox to Great Britain only
to see her go down in defeat, our cause and our cash as well would
be lost. If England is sincere in her desire to make solvent her credit,
let's make a trade. To clear Morgenthau’s books lot’s cancel the. five
and one half billion debt for a hundred years lease on Canada and
Bermuda. For further financial assistance lot England turn over
to us the Honduras and Guiana, the islands of Barbados, Grenada,
Montserrat and Martinique, so vital to Caribbean defense, “for the
duration" and until her obligations to us are cleared.
If we must lend money to Britain, let’s make no bones about
plucking from the English empire all of the crown jewels that can
be of service to us in the Western Hemisphere. There could be no
more appropriate or opportune time to do some of the renowned
Yankee trading than in 1911. Tennessee Collegian, Tennessee State
College.
What Other Editors Think
We're Efficient Killers Ourselves
Diatribes against reckless driving on the highways are so laudable
and so fully approved by all that no one pays any attention to them.
Editors get only a yawn from their public when they observe that
there were more than 30.000 traffic deaths in 1939, and that, sonic
30.000,000 vehicles travel -60 billion miles yearly on 3,000,000 miles
of streets and highways.
Vet it is a horrible fact that our highways are overcrowded with
machines which travel at a speed far beyond the capacity of human
reflexes to respond. It is a horrible fact that we kill each other m
this country with an efficiency and blittieness unmatched by Hitler.
It is difficult to dramatize or personalize these facts, it means
little, for instance, to say that 119 of the 564 persons killed in Min
nesota traffic accidents last year were between the ages of 15 and
24 the high school and college age group unless you yourself were
in the back seat when your roommate flew through the windshield.
In an attempt to make all of us think a little about others, if not
about ourselves, the Minnesota Editorial association has begun a
campaign to cut that 564 figure down to at least 461 by September,
1941 The association calls it the "Save 100 Lives" campaign. Of
those 100 who will be saved if we realize that our 1918 highways are
pitifully inadequate for our 1940 cars—if we realize that we can
dawdle away more time over a slot machine in a roadside tavern
than we can save by travelling 75 miles an hour from here to there
and back it is reasonable to assume that 20 will be high school and
college students, and a couple w ill be from the University of Minne
sota.
So we join m the association scampaign, to add what we may.
We would like to feel that because we ran the chart you see on
this page, and because we carried this editorial, 15.000 University cf
Minnesota students used their heads, which as really all that i.
required. If they do, none of them ever w ill experience that sickening
feeling that comes when vou look at a smashed body en a n.K*;ue
slab and realise that it is your work. None cf then—and this
more—* ill bo earned onto that s-ab.—Minnesota Daily.
The
Passing
Parade
By HUMBERT SEESALB
The noon train Monday
brought in the remainder of the
California clan to the campus,
and the down home chatter
about the ol’ maestro at the
Victor Hugo—the beauteous
top of the Mark, etc., imme
diately sprung forth.
Things in Portland were not
too dull—the Chi Psis did their
best to liven things up at the
Heathman with a party the
desk clerk is still talking about.
. . . the ATOs ended up at Gene
Cobbs after anything but a dull
evening—the Betas, Phi Delts,
and Sigma Chis had the most
riotous time of all ai the Triad
—at least Dick Davis didn't do
bad for a guy who didn’t even
bring a date. Wow! The Theta
Chis had a four-hour set-to at
Duke Karterman’s Westover
heights mansion . . . Canard
clubber Don Vernier was seen
on Broadway at various times
from dusk to dawn.
Beautiful Girl!
A glance into the stands at
the Utah game showed that
blonde DG, Emma Verdurmcn
looking bee-utjful to the boys
on the other side of the floor.
How those Pi Phis howled ev
ery time Red McNeeley got his
hands on the ball—which was
pretty often.
Beverly Tobin, the Tri-Delt
cute li’l deb, felt quite sorry for
the Utah boys, who weren't
doing quite so sharply. Those
fellows on the scoreboard didn’t
miss a play all evening—they
just forgot to record the points
on the scoreboard. When the
closer games come along, I
hope the guys on the scoreboard
can at least count—else it
could give a small riot.
Some law school chatter: Man
of the term over at the “Salt
mines,” as Fenton hall is so
sentimentally referred to, is
Phil Lowry, who set a good ex
ample for his Theta Chi fresh
men by leading all first-year
students with a 3.29. . . . Jean
ette Thatcher led the way for
the co-ops as that Hilyard house
lass finished up second among
the law school freshies—Tom
Stacer, Bob Payne and versa
tile George Luoma round out
the top five ... a round of
exam week flu swept the law
school, and lots of budding bar
risters still have exams to take.
Norville on Top
Gerald Norville is leading the
second year studes, while Jack
Hay and Wendell Wyatt are
tops on the senior honor roll.
Sorry to see one of the cam
pus' couples from way back
break up—Bob Calkins, the
likable chap you may be voting
for next spring, and .Marian
Marks, Theta, have decided to
call it quits . . . and speaking
of Thetas, Janice Gifford isn’t
coming back to school this term
. . . Gil Geitner, the Fiji with
the vicious left hook, planted
his pin shortly before exam
week on that cute frosher with
the purtly red hair, Marge Cole.
Kim McKim and Anne Hawkins
are independent again—Kim is
wearing his ATO pin—Anne
was at the Park Sat. night with
someone else.
The Chi Omegas really hit a
jackpot over the holidays—
Genevieve Tompkins took an
out-of-state Fiji pin, Dorothy
Greer now has a Cornvalley
ATO pin, and Alice Trullinger
returned clasping Maury Kel
ley's Oregon SAE pin—still
more prospects, the grapevine
says.
I Overheard
Overheard here and there: At
the Side: “Gee, I got my pic
ture in the Oregonian this
morning!’’ also at the Side,
“Try this ace of spades in that
hamburger and see if you can
tell the difference.” At Siber
rian, "Wow! what a girl, what
a night—dam this marble
board!” At the Emerald shack.
“You lout! You stole my story!”
Barring any further epidem
ics of flu. Arabian Gonk, or
athletes foot, the soph inform
al will be held February 22—
probably in Gerhnger. and the
Whiskenno will move up to
spring term, on April 19—so it
might not be too late to get a
date for the Whiskermo with
one of those Kappa date girls—
probably too late for the In
formal. though, as that is only
a month and a half away.
No—I refuse to end this with
so be it..
By BILL PEND ALL
the rally committee pendulum swings from past to present ... it
used to be “what about a rally committee?” . . . now it’s changed
to “what rally committee?” . . .
like counting rings in a bathtub, SO BE IT counts back into the
past of the “why-a-rally-committee ?” campaign of last term and
brings out a little-told-of happening in the EMERALD-ratly com
mittee scuffle. . . . ----
near the end of fall term the
rally group decided they had a
little money to use up . . . ta
ble spare at the DEL REV was
contracted for and away went
the boys and girls one evening
to have some eating food and
quench a contraband thirst. . .
after the eating food was fin
ished the group started to
washing it down with stuff you
conld peel brass rails with by
merely allowing the fumes to
strike the finish. . . .
getting a smell of the cork
clear up on the campus, EMER
ALD photographers loaded their
GRAPHICS with film and flash
bulbs and using their noses
traced the group who were real
ly rallying for once . , . with
cameras behind their backs the
EMERALD duet entered the
DEL REY back room . . . like
a quarterback calling signals
they shifted into positions
about the room and exploded
not only their flash bulbs but
the rally committee. . . .
best pix of the lot showed
the chairman and a coed mem
ber of the group vainly try
ing to get a quart bottle (the
label shows vedy vedy plain
like) under the table . . . the
effect left on the negative is
that she is waving it in a mo
ment of glee. . . .
no, the picture has not been
published and probably won’t be
... it just exists in case future
reference is needed concerning
—well, what group would you
suggest? ....
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GEORGE "BALL HEAD"
MACKIN will guide BOB
CROSBY to this university
campus for the senior ball—
let’s hope he guides BOB bet
ter than he guided the HOME
COMING NOISE PARADE,
of which he was also chairman,
or he’ll have them playing on
the OREGON STATE campus.
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a banana peel
a flash of hose
a little squeal
and down she goes. . . .
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campus quips . . . LOWELL
DICK’S comment about the
SIDE—"crowded so bad you
couldn’t cuss a cat without get
ting fur in your mouth’’ . . .
ASUO BOARD TO SLATE
f
TALK BY FIRST LADY” head
lined yesterday’s Emerald—
that little talk will cost the stu
dent body just about $1000 . . .
overheard in a line at the libc
desk—“hope that book isn't in
I'd like to get a date tonight
. . . some coeds on this campus
will enjoy an old age if paint is
the preservative manufacturers
claim it is . . . DEAN ALLEN
has a large library which he
terms "disgustingly miscellan
eous” . . . according to authori
tative cemeteries in France,
youth will die for a cause it be
lieves just—do we need more
authorities? ... so be it. .. .
Ir
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From
All Sides
By M1LDBED WILSON
Ancient jalopies—the older
the better—were at a premium
during the recent taxi day at
the University of Southern Cal
ifornia. The high point of the
celebration was the Taxi day
parade at which a perpetual
silver trophy was awarded the
most original and interesting
taxi. The entries were judged
on four points: originality, hu
mor, age and size. When not on
parade the decrepit vehicles,
driven by Trojan Squires, trans
ported students to and from
classes for five cents a ride.—
Daily Trojan—Southern Cali
fornia.
esquire is
a magazine
that shows
what men
should wear
and what
women don't
-—Fresno State College Col
legian.
Founding a “Movement for
the Protection of Crimson Pal
ates,” two Harvard juniors have
started a revolt against the con
stant inclusion of Hubbard
squash on the house dinner ta
bles. Carrying out their objec
tive by means of petitions Hen
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Brecon W Emerald ^
Wednesday Advertising Staff:
Jim Thayer, manager
Phil Burco
Chuck Woodfield
Night Staff:
Ted Goodwin, night editor
Barbara Plaisted
Marjorie Major
Don Ross
Lee Samuelson
ry M. Smith and Robinson Mur
ray declared to the press rep
resentative, “When we have
achieved our first objective
getting rid of the watery, taste
less pulp which is onomatopoe
etically called squash—we plan
to start a crusade against
stewed celery.”—
—The Harvard Crimson.
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My momma told me
Not to smoke.
Ha, ha, I don’t.
My momma told me
Not to cheat.
Ha, ha, I don’t.
My momma told me
To study a lot.
Ha, ha!
—Los Angeles Collegian.
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Setting up a campus blind
date bureau at the University
of Washington, varsity ball
leaders plan to classify campus
cuties from four dimensions—
by height, age, eyes and hair.
Date seekers can apply to the
bureau in person or call up if
desired. The bureau is super
vised by Hurst Clark who em
phasized the board’s temporary
character by saying, “Any sim
ilarity to a marriage bureau is
purely coincidental and of no
import whatsoever.”
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