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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1941)
The Oregon Dailv Emerald', published daily dining the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, and hnal examination periods bv the Associated Students, l/nivcrsity of Oregon. Subscription rates: $i.25 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered as second “ class matter at the postoftice, Eugene, Oregon. Represented lor national advertising by XA'l ION’AL ADVER I ISINO SER\ ICE, INC., college publishers’ representative, 420 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago— Jios ton -Eos Angeles-- San Francisco—Portland and Seattle. LVLE M. NELSON, Editor JAMES VV. FROST, Business Manager AaoUtI.Alc. i'.UUUKs: iiai yvmcy, xieien /mikcu - Jimmie Leonard, Managing Editor Kent St.tzcr, News Editor Fred May, Advertising Manager Boh Rogers, National Advertising Mgr. Editorial Board: Roy Vernstrom, Pat Erickson, Helen Angell, Harold Olney, Kent Stitzer, Jimmie Leonard, and Professor George Turnbull, adviser. Editorial and Business Offices located on ground floor of Journalism building. PI. nes 3300 Extension; 3H2 Editor; 3o3 News Office; 359 Sports Office; and 354 Business Offices. Pat Erickson, Women's Editor Ted Kcuyon, Photo Editor Boh Ealvclle, 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 Corrinc Wigne*, Executive Secretary Johnnie Kahananni, Feature Editor UPPER BUSINESS STAFF rtivercia Aiacacr, v,iassineu auvcnismu Manager Ron Alpau^h, Layout Production Man ager linicrson Page, Pr> tuition Director Janet Farnhain, Office Manager Politics and Student Affairs "Y^IIKN polities begins to threaten student government, as it now seems to be doing in most of the classes and in the ASUO, it is time that something is done. If this '‘some thing” is not done it is obvious that student government will suffer in the form of more sweeping faculty control of student affairs. Any move in that direction will come not so much because members of a faculty desire to take away the authority from the students, but because they have lost faith in the ability of students to handle their own affairs. Some of those ad vocating more faculty supervision will do so quite unconscious of the effects on student government. Most recent example of this trend is the suggestion at a recent board meeting that all organizations be required to "turn their bookkeeping over to the University business office. This would mean that all student organizations, including honoraries, would have their expenditures and incomes handled and supervised by the administration. # # * suggestion was made in good faith. It- had instant sup port from several members of 1 ho faculty. It probably will receive more supporters as it spreads. The primary pur pose of the suggestion was to bring about some method of uniform and systematic bookkeeping on the part of all stu dent groups. Even this small a delegation of power, however, might lead to other steps. If carried far enough, the gravitation of power from stu dent to faculty might end in the abolition of student govern ment—abolition not of the offices and organizations, but of ’ the responsibilities and the things which make it worth while. There would still be the leaders with the same titles, but, they would find their courses of action limited and well-cut ■ out ahead of time. They would be led by restrictions, regula tions, and other rules handed down from above. A student organization puzzling over the possibility of "breaking even on a dance, a tired committeeman attempting to find a new way to get publicity for an event, four or five ..students planning a pep assembly, a banquet celebrating a * successful Junior weekend—these are things that make stu • dent government worthwhile. They can survive only if they are protected from the forces . of political unscrupulousness. '19 to '41—The Press Conference ^'"JATHERED at the journalism “shack” today is probably as impressive an array of “big” names in Oregon jour nalism as the University has welcomed to the campus since a visionary group of twenty-live or so newsmen goth together in April, 1919, just twenty-three press conferences ago, and started the whole thing. The year upon which this conference looks back is wholly unsurpassed in the twenty-two that have gone before. A savage Prussian military machine has quashed the major part of a continent ; Americans have in a few short months undergone a complete reversal in opinion on their role in the war; an American president has for the first time been elected to a third term, laterally, it has been a year for the books. # # # t^^lTII such a year behind them, newspapermen come to Eugene perhaps only a little less confused than the public which they work to enlighten. Their meeting might well be called, its Hill Tugman says, a conference of discon tent—a meeting of protest. It is certain that there is plenty of cause for such a gathering. Much water and blood have gone under the bridge in a year. So to Press t onfereuee President McKinney. ON PA Presi dent French, newsmen, publishers, .journalists, the Emerald and the University extend a cordial hand, a sincere “Wel come home” to Oregon. Life Is a Tale “QI R 111'.' is a fair that is living told . . . Perhaps it is a masterpiece in the making. Or maybe it will more closely resemble a tabloid exhibition One ft eh a disturbing responsibility to walk warily through the days of 1041. Our soust with increasing clarity that exist enee is a drama, a show, a eoneetilmcnt behind masks. He becomes vlf.conscious when he realize, that he is an actor and an actual character in tin thing: The very young land many others chop up the tale or life and resolve to live it in section: "'When 1 grow up, I'll be a fireman.' anticipates a miraculous turning point in the story, perhaps the beginning of part two, where, suddenly, the little one is adult, md an entirely new person. College students seem to expert a similar metamorphosis. Their recipe is. student phi diploma equals one completely changed human being, llow nice. “^~^lvR life is a tale that is being told . It is being told right now, today. The things one tlunks or utters all -become par: ox that l;x mg story, one that cannot bo post poned to the future for writing. It is being told and recorded this instant. One must walk warily through the days of 1941. Now, as much and more than ever, the world is very much with us. Recognition *of the fact is unavoidable. Adjustment to it is vital. Is this story, then, to be a masterpiece or a cheap exhibi tion? Is it all “sound and fury, signifying nothing?” O'' is it consciously developed, subject to plan and organization? “Our life is a tale that is being told ...” The quotation itself infers that the teller of the tale is alert and aware. As he develops, so does his story.—P.E. In the*Editor's Mail An Open Letter to Tiger Payne, Marge McLean, Harry Bergtholdt, Betty Buchanan. Dear Fellow-members of the Executive Committee: Thi3 letter might well be en titled “Politics and the Appoint ment of Dad’s Day Chairman.” Suspicious soul that I am, I be lieve that in voting for and ap pointing Stan Staiger chairman of Dad’s Day your primary con sideration was a political ono, and that in this respect you ig nored your obligation to pro mote and maintain sound stu dent government. In an effort to substantiate this accusation, I shall review, not for your benefit, but for that of any poor unfortunate who may be suf ficiently idle or sufficiently mis guided to read this epistle, the background of the appointment. On Sunday, January 5, the ex ecutive committee met to make the appointment of a Dad’s Day chairman. Of the few applica tions turned in, only two were deemed worthy of serious con sideration, those of George Macking and “Buck Buchwach. I stated then that I considered both men equally well qualified for the position, but that in view of the fact that Mackin had already participated in nu merous activities of this type, Euchwach should be given this opportunity, since I felt that any wholesome activity pro gram should include as great a number of students as possi ble. All members present who knew Buchwach -Payne, Berg tholdt, Nelson, and I—agreed that Buchwach was a very com petent man. Four members, Payne, Bergtholdt, McLean, and Buchanan (via telephone, since she was unable to attend the meeting) declared that Mackin was at least slightly more com petent and should receive the appointment, with Buchwach being appointed promotion chairman. Nelson and I dissent ed but were not in the least dis gruntled, since wo thought Mackin highly competent. Mackin, since he had, un known, at the time, to the ex ecutive committee, received ap pointment as Senior ball chair man, resigned as Dad's Day chairman. At a meeting Tuesday, Jan uary 7, the executive committee again took action on the ap pointment of a Dad’s Day chairman. I was obliged to leave early, but first stated that I considered Buchwach the logi cal choice. Over Nelson's dis senting vote, you appointed Staiger. Why was a man who was not considered sufficiently qualified to even receive mention at the first meeting appointed chair man at the second? Why was a man who was not sufficiently interested in the po sition to submit a petition ap pointed chairman ? Why was the appointment re fused Buchwach at the second meeting when his qualifications were well enough considered to make him second choice at the first meeting? I believe Staiger was appoint ed and Buchwach not appointed because Buchwach is an inde pendent. In my office I am no more obligated to an independent than I am to a Greek. But I do not believe that sound student government is possible without the participation and interest of all students. By discriminat ing against an independent, you have helped to stifle the inter est and prevent the participa tion of independents in student government and activities. No independent, incidentally, has received a student appointment of any consequence this year. I have no quarrel with Stan Staiger; I respect his capabili ties but I do not feel that he is nearly ay well qualified for this particular position as Buchwach is. My quarrel is with you for abusing the power and respon sibility of your offices by play ing politics in making this ap pointment. Until next executive commit tee meeting when I will make this statement in less literary but more forceful terms, I re main Your combative colleague, John Cavanagh. so be it.. By BILL FENDALL I— —————— over at the AOPi house they'll swear to this on a stack of Bibles as high as a member's nose. . . . a freshman answered the phone recently and was asked if so-and-so, one of the AOPi houseboys lived there . . . the caller thought that perhaps the houseboy had a room in the basement which is common enough on many campuses . . . puzzled, the freshman coed an swered “who?” . . . the name was repeated on the other end of the wire and then, “does he sleep there?" was added. . . . the pledge explained hack with, “I stay on second and he doesn't sleep there . . . hut I don't know what goes on up on third". . . . * * * lit up like a searchlight late one night last week, live (iKhGKS, each with a different letter eonilunution pinned over his fifth rib, zig-zagged home, after a sudsy bull session in a downtown parlor. stiffer than an army ser geant's hack, the ti\e decided a sorority they were passing need ed serenading ... it was sere muted. . . the coeds got n big Kick out of listening to the fermented music and speculated among themselves 11s to the Identity of their entertainment. . . the next day a member ot the sorority reminded of the inci dent by a song her coke-mate was humming to himself, told the humming one of the pre vious night's entertainment and sat wondering just who the singers could have been. . . the boy looked up with a jerk and stopped humming the tune that had reminded her of that serenade . . . for the song he had been humming was the one he had sung with tour others under n sorority house window the uight betore. . . library workers are often the most flagrant violators of the library's own “Quiet Rule” . . . the other p.m. some of them were standing just back of the desk in the reading room loud ly clashing words about some one's vacation ... a bull ses sion in other words . . . several annoyed students at tempting to study kept looking up with critical stares . . . final ly one student bellowed out as loud as he could—“QUIET!!!" 4- 4* 4 love is desprit, love is sad love is futile, love is bad love's a sorrow, love's a curse but not to be in love is worse. campus quips . . . ROY VERNSTROM who lists WEN WYATT as a 'lame duck' . . . the SIG EPS caused a crisis at TOMMY “WRONG AGAIN" WRIGHT'S breakfast the other morning when they descended upon him to demand a retrac tion “ r else''—TOMMY classi fied the SPEE boys with the one word “rabble"—tsk, tsk, TOMMY, not rabble—perhaps an indoor street riot —but not ' ibble . . the OREGON STATE BAROMETER'S new sports ed itor. BILL VESSEY, embalmed his first rolm with (he name "SIDELINE SLANTS." a name already in use on the STAN FORD DAILY'S sport page ever JERRY BRUCKER'S by line—DAVE SANDERSON ef the EUGENE NEWS has one of the early claims on the same heading . . . dean of the school The Passing Parade By HUMBURT SEES ALL Another Nickel hop has re imbursed the scholarship fund, and all will be quiet for a cou ple of days, until the WAA deal Saturday night—and that fight ing basketballer, Bill Borcher, DU, will probably escort his newly planted steady, Mercedes Beck . . . Jim Green, Phi Delt transfer from OAC, and Alpha Flee Babs Reed have severed all diplomatic and domestic re lations—maybe Nancy Lee is still in the picture—and after all these years. Lois Welborn came tripping back to school with a Sig Ep pin belonging to a Randolph field cadet, Hugh Hoffman . . . Looks like Marie Gabel, the blonde Sigma Kappa, has de cided to settle down—with Frank Albright’s DU pin—and incidentally, Milodene Goss is far from a goon, if you read the infirmary column. Noticed during the five-cent struggle: the cutest Kappa of them all, Alma Paksis, occupied taking tickets — whattarook! And speaking of Kappas, Jim Houck, Theta Chi, will plant his pin on Nancy Dutton as soon as Nancy fulfills the KKG pin taking requirement, which con sists of making her grades . . . Helene Wilmot is certainly a wonderful dancer . . . Tridelt Jean Johnson seemed to be having a wonderful time with that tall blonde . . . over heard during the course of the evening—At the Pi Phi house, “If one more person was in this room, none of us could budge an inch!”—at the DG house, "Cummon Amy—you can’t af ford to miss another flying class—it’s five after seven now!”—at the Phi house. “Even the rugs seem to ooz with Be tas around here.” The genial Sigma Nu, Doc Henry, has thrown over the Oregon girls for a WSC Alpha Chi—she comes here for his house dance, he goes there for hers. Jack Lansing's fraternity brothers say that he planted his pin on some blonde Theta— the Thetas don't seem to know anything about it—why don't they get together and we'll print what really happened some day—if anyone ever finds out .. . Bill Friewald is a sur prising gent. Ho returned to the Kappa Sig house last night after disappearing from his par ents in Portland during Christ mas vacation—guess he just didn't want to wait around for his grades. Newest heap on the campus is the Phis recent addition—a smooth green and yellow job of about 1930 vintage. Harry Bergtholdt’s pictures seem to be in demand by a cer tain Alpha Chi—who purloined one a couple of weeks ago — then she got it re-stolen from her— of course I wouldn't men tion her name—but her initials are Lorraine Lewis. Seen in the libe already this term is Bill Fendall's protege from the Gamma Fi house, Pat ty Sutton who amazed every one and pulled down a 2.0 last term wouldn’t Fendall be squelched if they pledged her to Phi Bete in a few years (quite a few—say, about 25). of business, VICTOR P. MOR RIS, paused in his class lecture ramblings the other day while, discussing MARX's co-arranger of the COMMUNISM theory, ENGELS -VIC was struck by the similarity of sound between the last names of ENGELS and CLAUDE E. INGALLS who points a. finger at mythical SWASTIKA banners on the halls of the UNIVERSITY OF OREGON . . . can't ever tell—y* know how some people will change their names a little when they come to AMERICA from these old COMMUNISTIC countries . . . you watch your show on a downtown screen— I'll watch mine on the PLAY GROUND dance floor ... so be it. . . . Two Big Features! “Diamond Frontier” with Victor McLaglen — plus — “Fargo Kid'* International Side Show By RIDGELY CUMMINGS The Pilgrims is an Anglo American organization whose purpose is to promote good will between the United States and Cummings the British Em pire. Yesterday in London the Pilgrims gave a luncheon in hon or of Lord Hal ifax, the newly appointed am bassador to the U.S. who leaves for this country next week to take tne place or tne late n,orci Lothian. Halifax was honored, but it was “Winnie” Churchill who stole the show with another one of his brilliant orations in which he said that British hopes of victory are pinned on Amer icans. grated the British prime min ister: “We stand, all of us, upon the watchtowers of history, and have offered to us the glorious opportunity of making the su preme sacrifices and exertions needed by a cause which it may not be irreverent to call sub lime.” Calls It Oratory That, my worthies, is oratory. A little flowery perhaps, but it has everything ... a metaphor: watchtowers of history . . . and all the shiny words which inspire men to action: glorious opportunity . . . supreme sac rifice . . . sublime. It reminds one of what Bobbie Burns said, about how he didn’t care who made the laws as long as he could make a nation’s songs . . . and write the speeches, he might have added. While Halifax was gravely replying to Churchill’s speech, Roosevelt in Washington was holding an extraordinary con ference with cabinet, congres sional, and defense chiefs on a Oregon H Emerald Copy Desk Staff: Wes Sullivan, copy editor Elsie Brownell, assistant Barbara Schmieding Herb Penny Veva Peterson Charles Woodruff Ruth Jordan Joanne Nichols Friday Advertising Staff: Jean Adams, manager Betty Bisbee Jean Eckley Helen Moore Jeanne Routt Bob Nagel Night Staff: Ray Schrick, night editor Betty Jane Biggs Barbara Jean Vincent Jeanette Eddy Herb Penny O. A. Stevens, North Dakota Agricultural College botanist, each year identifies from 300 to 600 plant species for farmers. Shrubs and lawns on the cam pus of San Diego state college get 15,000 gallons of water daily. MHONALII Pure, Unadulterated Love! JACK BENNY and FRED ALLEN in ‘Love Thy Neighbor’ with Mary Martin and Rochester — plus — “Jennie” with Virginia Gilmoer Action and Romance! CLARK GABLE SPENCER TRACY CLAUDETTE COLBERT HEDY LAMARR in “BOOM TOWN” program to give yet more aid to the embattled British. Won’t Talk When it was over Senator Barkley told reporters that all hands had agreed on a bill which will be introduced at noon today in congress, but was non committal on the bill’s contents. Speculation is that it contains a direct grant of power to the war and navy departments to handle the loan-lease plan, which will turn over “billions of dollars” worth of war supplies to Britain. The stock market continued to rise. Of 824 issues traded, 450 closed higher and only 155 were lower, the rest unchanged. In spite of Roosevelt’s 17 bil lion dollar budget and the pros pect of increased taxes to pay for it, the speculators were op timistic, although they paid particular attention to stocks which will be affected least by the excess profits tax. Eye for Eye The war in Europe and Afri ca waged on with nothing start ling happening. The British bombed Naples in Italy and German bases in the North Sea and the Nazis reciprocated with bombs in "virtually every sec tion” of England. The Greeks reported fresh successes in the Albanian snows, and Tobruk in Libya, Africa, was under sieze and shaky. Harry Hopkins arrived in London as the President’s mes senger boy on a secret mission, and in New York a 39-year-old former senator named Ernest W. Gibson was picked to take William Allen White’s place as head of the Committee to De fend America by Aiding the Al lies. I sure wish Rush Holt were still in the senate. Then I could look forward to getting the low down, if any, on Mr. Gibson out of the Congressional Rec ord in a few weeks. But the West Virginia boy wonder wasn’t re-elected. Selah. 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Interviewed in the Crimson network studio of Harvard Uni versity, Ann Corio, queen of strip-tease artists and Har vard’s “sweetheart,” revealed that she divided her audiences into three classes: Men, gen tlemen and others. She was quite definite in stating that Harvardians belonged in the “gentlemen” category. People from Yale are “others,” she said. Upon leaving the studio Miss Corio left the following remark in the studio comment book: “This has been a thrilling and happy experience for me— I’ve been to Harvard.” —The Harvard Crimson. Dres s e s A large group of feminine styles that are just the thing for those im portant winter social events. SPECIAL GROUP at $10.0 I .BOOKS! . . . All you can read lor $ 1.00 per term Kenneth Roberts’ new “Oliver Wiswell,” a stirring story of the other side of the American Revolution—or perhaps you’ll M-aut to read Ernest Hemingway's latest,. “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” . . . Think of it 1 The latest novels at your very hand 1 . . . 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