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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 postoftice, Eugene, Oregon. Represented for national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., college publishers’ representative, 420 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago— Bos ton—Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle. LYLE M. NELSON. Editor TAMES W. FROST. Unsiness Manaecr ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Hal Alncy, Helen Angell ^ Jimmie Leonard, Managing Editor • Kent Stitzer, News Editor Fred May, Advertising Manager Bob Rogers, National Advertising Mgr. • Editorial and Business Offices located on ground floor of Journalism building. Phones » 3300 Extension: 382 Editor; 333 News Office; 359 Sports Office; and 354 Business Offices. Pat Erickson, Women’s '• Editor Ted Kenyon, Photo Editor Hob Falvelle, Co-Sports ... Editor Ken Christianson, Co-Sports Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Wes Sullivan, Ass’t News Editor Betty Jane Biggs, Ass’t News Editor Ray Schrick, Ass’t Manag ing Editor Tom Wright, Ass’t Manag ing Editor Corrine Wignes, Executive Secretary Johnnie Kahananni, Feature Editor UPPER BUSINESS STAFF • Aivercia .waeaer, i^iassineci Advertising Manager • - Ron Alpaugh, Layout Production Man ager mil waiian, circulation Manager Emerson Page, Promotion Director Janet Farnham, Office Manager They Can’t Afford to Wait ASUO committee of nine, appointed by President ■'Tiger" Payne met yesterday to discuss the much-dis M, cussed class card issue. They had two advantages over most of the ottier committees which have discussed the problem. *’ First, they knew what they were talking about, and second, they showed a willingness to really get to the bottom of the question. The committee was composed of all the class presidents ■ ■ and several law sfchool students. Most of them had a back *■ ground of four years’ experience with the question. They have seen it grow fro ma small cry to a thing of campus-wide im portance. ... Thai the question has grown beyond the limits of a class problem is indicated by the fact that Prexy Payne decided to devote his time, and the time of the committee, to suggested ■ methods of solving the problem. It now appears that if any definite action is ever gained it will be through an ASUO • committee. ■ The committee yesterday heard all the arguments on both • sides and postponed any further action to a later date. If the • final opinion then favors some method of solving the class j card problem the group will recommend action to the executive ’ committee of the ASUO. • * * * • JUDGING by the caliber of the men on the ASUO commit « tee it appears that the possibility of the problem’s being • solved is greater than at any time this year. The president and 1 the committee have decided to get to the bottom of the ques “ tion and they will probably do so. " However, it must be pointed out that past committees have “ promised to reach a solution and have failed to do anything 2 after weeks, even months, of controversy. The present com • mittee may—although it seems unlikely at the present—break « up without any real solution. • In the light of past experience independents organising • under a new freshman class rule, and in other organizations, l would be extremely unwise to drop their movements in the l hopes that some future action may give them a voice in the 1 existing classes. 2 If the new freshman class can organize in sufficient num 2 bers to count more members than the present class there is an • excellent possibility that it will be recognized as the official • class. « Until defiinte action is taken, until the independents have a • tangible result in their hands, the)’ would be foolish to abandon I the course they previously adopted. I They cannot afford to wait. A Good Start COMPARISONS are odious, or at least, we have been led to believe they are. And yet, comparisons may, under some circumstances, be particularly valuable. For it is only by comparison that anything’ may be judged. For this reason when the interfraternity council decided over a year ago to resume the practice of publishing house grades we felt that the decision was wise. It is obvious that there were, probably, a number of other angles to the problem that more directly affected our decision. Nevertheless, we find ourselves forced to believe that the comparison angle must have been the underlying philosophy that influenced our decision. We believe that the accuracy of this impression has been amply demonstrated. Perhaps the accuracy of the first statement concerning the disagreeable side of comparisons is the most logical argument for publishing house grades. Certainly the added incentive to maintain high scholastic standards can have no other than a desirable effect. It might be argufcd that the desirable re sults were not sufficient to warrant the embarrassment to the scholastically lower houses. That, probably, is a moot. It boils down to consideration of how much you are willing to pay in order to raise scholastic standards if, indeed, they should be raised. i * * + JT is obvious now that the publishing of house grades has had a tendency to raise scholastic standards. Fi atei nitics and sororities have suddenly acquired a profound interest in maintaining good house grades. The scholastic rating de manded of fraternity and sorority pledges to be eligible tor initiation has been boosted all over the campus. Every house has fallen into line and raised the GPA requirement at least one-fOurth of a grade point. Some houses ha\c even set up a system whereby pledges receive tutelage in then tough course W e believe that a good :-t ut has been made. All these move., seem to be in the right direction. Those responsible. the inter fraternitv council and the individual houses, are to be con gratulated We must emphasise, however, that the steps which have been taken are only a start and should be considered as .,uch. If they are followed up a . the} should be. hue and dandv It. however, the work i- allotted to stop lute, not so good So to the jn*eriJa* council and the Cheek: gtgtra! • c say, "Hair po.-.tr to v our tjbov lyog! wright or wrong With TOMMY WRIGHT I -,-~ss The days of the old west are not dead! The time when the vigilantes blazed a trail of plun der has returned again to 11th street. Honor of the house must be upheld, so the dear, dear pledges of the Sig Ep domicile take the law in their own hands. As far as I can discover “Rab ble” is neither slanderous, or li belous, but a big dozen frat lads can be mighty convincing, so we took our Chamberlain umbrella in hand and tried the appeasement path, pending a conference with our lawyer. And that is what you might call THAT. No apologies; no retrac tions; no nothings, I hope. CAMPUS WHISPERS More pins go the way of all good things with Marie Gabel, Sigma Kappa’s notoriety girl purloining Frank Albrecht—at last . . . Pifi Aldeen Gates breezes out in a Bill Ilegner ef fect . . . and Kay Dillard, of the Pifis also, gets one of those elusive things, but we under stand she had to slug him for the count and he was still un recognizable . . . Bob “Red Dog” Davis, SA and E, donates his pin to the Laverne Dittleton cause . . . Gordon Ries, Zeta's Shertock Holmes counterpart, gets plagued with a hall detec tive monicker . . . 'tis under stood that Ues Bradley of the same hall sticks to studies since acquiring a wife—a holiday blunder . . . Lois Welborn wins the pin of Sig Ep grad, Hugh Hoffman. . . . THUMB NAIL SKETCH Hugh B. Collins (can't vouch for what the “B” means), of the law school super conversation alists, sometimes known as Hamilton Kennedy II, is widely known as prexy of “The Bees and Esses Club,” which has many members on this cam pus. llughlc (his mommie calls him that) hates publicity about himself, is girl crazy, but is afraid to do anything about it. CONVERSATIONS . . . Just a dirty dozen of what a writer of this kind of columents hears most. 1. I heard— 2. They say— 3. Of all the— 4. She waas— 5. Don’t say I told you. 6. Between you and me— 7. This is good 8. Where in blankety blank did you get that stuff? 9. She said he— 10. It isn’t true. 11. How did you find out? 12. This reserved for unprint ables. CONCLUSION . . . If you happen to see me drip ping wet and without any hair upon my head, you'll know that the Sig Eps caught up with me. yours sincerely, Campus Calendar Scholarship chairmen of nil wo men’s houses will meet this after noon at 4:30 in Alumni hall. .Social chairmen of all houses are to meet Friday afternoon at 4 o' clock in the AWS rooms on the third floor of Gerlinger hall. I’hi Beta will meet this evening at 7:30 in the AWS rooms on the third floor of Gerlinger hall. Community sendee group meets at 3:30 today in the YWCA bunga low. Amphibian will meet tonight in the first meeting of the term at 8 o’clock sharp. All members and pedlges please come Tabard Inn wilt meet Thursday night at 7:30 in the north end of Alumni hall, instead of in the men’s lounge, as formerly announced im portant meeting. Students who signed for positions on the Emerald copy desk and night staffs for winter term will find the schedules on the newsroom bulletin boards. Ml-eampiis tryouts for om i t play for both men and women are to ix> held today at 1 p m in 103 Johnson. the weekly Y\V lea will he held this afternoon at 1 o'clock, honoring all new girls. The Y's hospitality group will meet during the tea hour. l he community sen ice commit • •: ill rwo t Ijn ♦ Vi V. ^ -~,^ir ir - v' at 3.o0 this aiteruoou International Side Show By RIDGELY CUMMINGS One of the things I have never liked about communism is a little shibboleth the com rades here called party disci pline. It is another word for blind Cummings obedience and the way it works is this: Say a decision :s made to in vade Finland. Then the com rades are per mitted to call for more men, more tanks, greater efforts, but it is treason to question the wisdom or desirability of in vading Finland. “Constructive criticism’’ is allowed, but anything else is sabotage. When a decision has been taken everybody has to fall into line. The reason I bring this up is that Tuesday night I wrote a little piece about conscription. Wednesday morning I dashed into the College Side for the coffee eye-opener and a glance at the Emerald. Alas, there was no “International Side Show” anywhere in sight. Not Space Trouble Ah well, I thought, it’s prob ably space trouble. But later in the day I cornered Hal Olney, associate editor, and he told me the editorial board had decided not to run the questionable column for two reasons. One was that it might lay the Em erald open to a large fine and two was it might make me eli gible to five years in jail for obstructing the draft. Now I ought to preface the rest of this in self-protection by saying that the piece in ques tion did not call upon anybody to resist the draft. It started out with a news story taken from the United Press wire, which is not apt to lay itself open to large fines, telling how the Association of American colleges is scheduled to meet in Pasadena today and Friday to discuss, among other things, the problem of defer ment of military training for college students. Omits Comment j^.s long as the pedagogues can discuss draft deferment openly it seems to me a humble columnist should be able to do the same. However, in to night's piece I’ll omit the edi torial comment which put me in the Emerald dog-house. Dean Herbert E. Hawkes of Columbia college, Columbia university, was interviewed in San Francisco on his way to the meeting and told a reporter that deferment of military training for college students throughout their scholastic ca reers might create a bad psy chological effect. Said' the dean: “Deferment of military training for college and graduate school students should be restricted to allowing for the completion of the term's work—and not to the entire scholastic career of the stu dent.” Disagrees With Dean Students would get the feel ing t hoy were a privileged group and might go "high hat,” the dean believed, if they went through their four year course exempt from military training while their non-student ac acquaintances were in training camps. That’s Dean Hawkes opinion and he certainly has a right to state it. But as long as we have freedom of the press in this country it looks like any writ er should have the privilege of 1 r i Action and Romance! CLARK GABLE SPENCER TRACY CLAUDETTE COLBERT HEDY LAMARR in “BOOM TOWN” CLASSIFIED ADS • Board, Room ROOM, BOARD—Everything new steam heat, good meals, home privileges. Phone 4360-W. The appearance of one's hair is— IMPORTANT Try Kampus Barber Shop James Copeland Eiefienbaeh.*r agreeing dr disagreeing with the dean. When prohibition was in ef fect there were numerous edi tors who fought the law—and it was a constitutional amend ment too, which made it all the more sacrosanct—with all the wit and energy at their com mand, on the grounds that it violated their constitutional rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They won too, and prohibition was knocked in the head. But I'll be a good boy and won’t say any more tonight, because I want to get out of the doghouse. A wind tunnel with air speeds up to 100 miles an hour is be ing built at the University of Santa Clara. DO YOU KNIT CROCHET EMBROIDER or would you like to learn. Do you like to piek tip a piece of needlepoint, em broider a pillow case, create original ideas in art needlework? If you do, then we can be of service. Our expert in structress, M i s s A m y Zachary, will be very glad and willing to help with instructions —- with ample stocks of NEW ART NEEDLEWORK and YARNS Comfortable c h airs and daylight m a k e our Art Needlework department on the balcony a pleasant place to spend an hour or two every day or two. THE BROADWAY INC. 20-30 E. Broadway Oregon ^Emerald Thursday Advertising Staff: Mary Kay Riordan Barbara Crosland Elizabeth Edmunds Peggy Magill Mary Reimers Mary Ellen Smith Copy Desk Staff: Mary Ann Campbell, copy editor Mary Wolf, assistant. Bob Frazier Lee Flatberg Lee Samuelson Ann Carr Jimmie Leonard Bob McClellan Night Staff: Bill Hilton, night editor Doris Jones Yvonne Tor ler Barbara Lamb Penny Mullen Dorthea Cathcart Malcolm Ordway Bob Frazier HEiLiG Two Big Features! “Diamond Frontier” with Victor McLaglen — plus — “Fargo Kid” with Jim Holt ilNiAL» Pure, Unadulterated Love! JACK BENNY and FRED ALLEN in ‘Love Thy Neighbor’ with Mary Martin and Rochester — plus — “Jennie” with Virginia Gilmoer Held Over, of Course! KAY KYSER and the Band in “YOU’LL FIND OUT” Little things help to keep telephone Developing; better apparatus of many kinds at lower cost is a continuous process in the Bell System. It plays a major part in makiug vour telephone service the finest and cheapest in the world. Here is one of many eases in point: Above you see two telephone loading coils—-oneold,one new. Such coils are spaced at regular intervals along tele phone circuits. They reduce electrical losses...help to bring your voice through clearly, strongly over long distances. Through the years, engineers at Bell Telephone Labora tories have succeeded in making these coils smaller and smaller. In so doing, they have greatly reduced the cost per coil, which...multiplied bv the millions in use...has helped to Keep uie cost ot om-ot-town service low. Why not telephone home at least once a week ? long Distance rates to most points ore lowest a*y *'£}$*? sfts*1 p q!| Svj'dsy. A New Sparkle for Winter Dances w You’ll want to look differ ent for your “big" campus date every weekend. OPERATORS KAY SCHNEIDER LEILA TOWNE JEAN LARSON BEA McCLARY Next to McDonald «/ Phone 633 Dyed in the warm, glowing colors of the Argentine, Ann Sutton's new wonder rayon fabric “Craisebark” is crisp and crunchy, crease • resistant and washable. These animated frocks, stitched with decorative originality, declare your midwinder defiance up north ... or send you gaily south. Shown are two from a complete group. I A "NATIONAL FABRIC) Slvlr 710 10-20. White and red,White* and Royal blue. Natural and Pampas brown. Light blue and Royal blue. $8.00 $0.00 ■Slvle T\i. Sizes 12-20. Male rose. Cuurho green. Light blue. Liana Ian, Tango gold. U. 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