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Oregon® Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald, published daiiy during the college >ear 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 post office, Eugene, Oregon. Represented tor national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., college publishers’ representative, 420 Madison Ave., New York Chicago— Bos ton—Eos Angeles— San Francisco—Portland and Seattle. LYLE M. NELSON, Editor JAMES W. FROST, Business Manager ASSOCIATE EDITORS: llal Olney, Helen Angell Jimmie Leonard, Managing Editor Kent Stitzcr, News Editor Fred May, Advertising Manager Boh Rogers, National Advertising Mgr. Editorial Board: Roy Vernstrom, Pat Erickson, Helen Angell, Harold Olncy, Kent Stitzer, Tirnmie Leonard, and Professor George Turnbull, adviser. Editorial and Business Offices located on ground floor of Journalism building. Phones 3300 Extension: 3«2 Editor; 353 News Office; 359 Sports Office; and 354 Business Offices. UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Anita cacKoerg, i^iasamcu nwciiiaiiig Manager Ron Alpaugh, Layout Production Man ager Emerson Page, Promotion Director Eileen Millard. Office Manager Pat Erickson, Women’s Editor Bob Flavelle, Co-Sports Editor Ken Christianson, Co-Sports Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Ray Schrick, Ass’t Manag ing Editor rom Wright, Ass’t Manag ing Editor Betty Jane Biggs, Ass’t News Editor Corrinc Wigncs, Executive Secretary Wes Sullivan, Ass’t News Editor Mildred Wilson, Exchange Editor Some Basketball Coming Up /^KEGON’S basket ball invasion of the “Inland Empire” ^ last, week—the most disastrous in many moons— prob ably dropped the Webfoot Hoopsters from t be Northern division title race. It didn’t, however, stop the lemon and preen five from being a serious headache to the other con ference teams. In fact the other teams can expect the Oregonians to be just that, particularly here in Eugene. The Ducks, with the pressure off, can settle down and play almost any brand of ball they like. They have little to lose by taking all the chances in the game and they will prabably be trying new plays and casting off at. the basket from all angles. The four losses to Washington State and Idaho were all by close margins. To those who listened to the game it seemed as if the Oregon team just couldn’t get to rolling long enough to make the necessary points and then keep the lead. They were too jittery to play a consistent brand of basketball. Of course the injuries to Anderson and Borcher helped to pave the way to the final defeats. By the time the last, game rolled around the team was too jittery or too crippled to make much of a showing. # # # j^ACK in Eugene the story will be different. Both the injured yum are expected to sec action in the next game. The team will have had a rest and maybe they'll regain their stride. The sophomores on the squad—for most part the ones upon whom the pressure told—are wiser for the ex perience. As is natural they can be expected to settle down as the season moves on. To top it all Oregon still has six out of eight home games left, games with Wash/hgtou, Oregon State, and Idaho. There can be no doubt that the Webfoots will be out to win all six and to drop at least one of those teams from the con ference race. The Oregon-Washington games have always been interest ing because both teams attempt to play the same kind of ball and the games arc a wild scoring bee with the team that can run the longest usually emerging as the victor. This year Washington promises a team which can outrun Oregon. The Oregon State games, backed by years of rivalry, inter est more and usually draw a larger crowd than any other basketball event. It makes little difference whether the two teams are battling for the top or for the cellar position. The campus should see some mighty interesting basketball yet this year. Another Committee YESTERDAY 11 new commit toe came into existence when seventeen freslunen were picked by student union heads to form litis year's freshman student union committee. The yearlings who were selected are to be congratulated and may justly be proud of the honor they have received. An impor tant task has been entrusted to them. To them is entrusted the task of speeding the action on a student union building on the Oregon campus. To them is entrusted the task of keeping alive a movement which dates back many years in Oregon history. To them is entrusted the task at which so many have ardently labored w ithout pro ducing material results. realize quite keenly that the student union contro versy, in all probability, dates back farther in Oregon history than any on the campus. It has been the topic for much discussion and bickering. Student leaders have worked ardently to get a union hall for the University and as yet the building has failed to materialize. These freshmen are appointed for four years. Theirs is the responsibility, theirs the duty, theirs the privilege of carrying on the work of former student leaders. It is a huge task and one that will require all their energies. It may at times be a thankless task. Their methods will undoubtedly be criticized during the next four years. They will often find themselves under fire, both from the students and the press. These students will find that their task will require long hard hours of work. It will require great quantities of per sistence and unwillingness to give up in the face of despair. Above all. they must be genuinely interested in their work and be willing to sacrifice much time to its furtherance. 'J'HESE seventeen students are new on the Oregon campus. They have much to learn. Their work on the student union committee should contribute a valuable addition to their education. They hav yet to show that they are worthy of the honor that has been given them. They have yet to show that they can carry the load Hits committee can do much good on the campus We hope that they will “put their shoulder to the wheel and tart f ^ t»*• r/c yll> s •• ’* u , . I-*-- -ril. vj. Sunday Was Seductive gUNDAY has gone now, as Sundays have a way of going. It went out softly witli pale ldue and red violet shad ows, and a gently falling mist. It had been delightfully bright, almost warm, then suddenly it was cold. The mists had come in. Sunday was rather a herald of spring, January though it was. And in the spring there are daffodils and violets in the earth, and something like optimism in men's hearts. It is nice to catch hold of spring, especially in January. It was peaceful and gladdening to walk in Sunday’s weather, and cheering to stand on a hilltop, breathing deeply, and watching the town being idyllically humdrum. It felt good to tread on soft damp soil, and to stop to watch some cow's monotonously munching their lunch. # * # CUNJDAY lulled one with soft weather and promises of spring, insisting that all was obviously right with tlie world. Come away from January seriousness, it said, and contemplations of the world, et cetera. The immediate earth is lovely and alive, and is only concerned with growing things. Tulips were blooming riotously when the blitzkrieg came to Holland last spring, and nightingales went on sing ing in Paris when the bombs fell, they say. The earth goes on, concerned with its growing things. •Sunday was seductive—until the cold mists rolled in. What Other Editors Think We and the Voice-Machines rJ"'IIE question returns, even though at present we are inter ested in whether the Greeks will be in Tirana by Christ mas, whether the British fleet will prove its superior quality, whether, the German forces are going to invade the British Isles. The question is not intricate. It is simply this: Is imperialist division of an imperialist world to he the after math of this war, or are we to see a new type of social democracy come to the fore, a government founded on freed om, a government constituted by social conscience? When the question is asked it is not well received. We are told that the immediate problems of attaining geographical objectives—Hill 2G, Sector 457, The Strait of Cerberus, The Isle of Islitar—are all-important, and that we must not let our perspective become clouded by looking too far ahead. This is the voice of reaction speaking. It is the voice that is always predominant in a decaying civilization, it is the voice that controls the voice machines. We overrate, however, the strength of many reactionary establishments for we can pick the termite-eaten super-structures which pass for founda tions to pieces if we will. We can impose our desire for pro gress-sans-godhead without smashing our heads against con crete barriers. For there is no concrete. \Vre hear much thick-tongued prating of how there is an international bond connecting students and student inter ests. Much of this is nonsense, because the people who say it are a stupid people. Some of it is true, and if one wants to be pragmatic about the idea, he can say that it is true be cause it works and can continue to function towards a so cial-democratic ideal. # * # ’’yyE arc not straying from our first question when wc speak of this. And we speak of this because we believe that it is possible for studems in all parts of the world to protest against the short-sightedness of the old men who—we will bet the proverbial shirt—are going to be the peace makers. We should like to agree that the peacemakers are blessed, were it not for the fact that the peacemakers have in recent decades been such insufferable dolts. There is a puissant voice that can outshout the voice machines. If it is dormant, that is because too many fine voices have preferred seclusion and stillness to the raucous hostility of the barricades. And that must not be now. We are to live in' the divisions of the world that will be made after Hill 2(5, Sector 457, The Strait of Cerberus and The Isle of lshtar are all taken and redubbed and re-blazoned. That is why contumely, why disdainful labelling should not deter us from the imposition of our views. That is why we should continue to say this and to fight for this: no imperial ist, butcher-division of countries at the next peace conference; no falsely bounded, pseudo-democracies, even if they are con ceived by the temporal peerage.—Minnesota Daily. Teach All, Not Just the Best QUARLES Chaplin rejected the New York film critics’ award as the best screen actor of 1!)40, because he believed acceptance would constitute acknowledgement of “the fact that actors are competing with each other." He holds the belief of many that "such an approach to one’s work is not very inspiring." Competition in the trades is a recognized practice, but in art it is frowned upon be cause the individual should be encouraged to excell for the sake of art itself. Education, like art, is dedicated to the individual and it should remain so. Competition in education has the tendency to push the cream of the crop to the surface and to force the less proficient in their studies to an inferior position in the school system. jC'Dl’CATlON m the beginning was an effort to teach every body how to read and write. It was not a movement to tiud the best reader and writer. The ones who knew loss in those subjects were intended to get the most attention. Today boys and girls, young men and women are not herded together in grade schools, high schools, colleges and universities for the purpose of competing with one another. That just happens to be the easiest method for educators to reach the most persons. Education is still an individual affair.—Indiana Daily Student. Recent assembly speaker., have, at least, aroused some com ment anyway. Typical campus remarks: "I’m sick of this war business. 1 don't even listen to the news broadcasts any more. by can't we have something else when we have our assembly speakers here Disgust and revulsions are a natural response tutall the v ar talks but the assembly speeches -re hk uicdiiiae— to but good for you. With TOMMY WRIGHT Perfidy producers Wright and Wrong swing out with an all new show "Stabbed by a Type writer Key orr "Who was the G e i s h u With George Last Night?” A rabble rousing riot in four scenes. Centering aroun the activities of some 3,700 Web foots, the plot is about as punchy as the "I" kep on an egotist's Underwood. 3-MINUTE POME . . . The days of old, When the lads were bold, And chivalry reigned su preme, Have reverted to scoops, By columnistic droops, With muddy thoughts the theme. CAMPUS WHISPERS . . . JOE WICKS (suprisingly is the third Theta Chi in a month to part with his hard-earned pin. The girl, ELEANOR BLANCH ARD, OSC Kappa . . . another of the Theta Chi lads—LEN BALLIF, will have his pin on a State Kappa, the chrystall ball portends . . . "WHIZ” WHITE lives up to his monicker for fast work, by planting his pin and getting it back all in two weeks. Gee! “WHIZ” . . . Aggie DOUG MARTIN breezed into town for the weekend and was seen among other places—at the Holland . . . Campii Casanova GREG DECKER doing a bit of conversing from the Infirmary lawn to HELEN MOORE, reposed in a hospital cot — (note:) new way to beat the visiting hour rules . . . Afraid that a date with BOB BROOKS might ruin a beautiful friend ship with same, thi3 week was Phoebe Dean but,—the two were together Friday night fickleness and gambling spirit of women . . . ‘ PAUL RE VERE FENDALL they call him, after riding a broomstick through the OSC Kappa house with the housemother in hot pursuit . . . Frosh hooper BOB WREN gives MARGARET MURPHY a break and now she wears his pin . . . ERLING GRIMSTEAD also broke down and does some pin cultivating— the girl, JEANNETTE LU VAAS . . . ARCHIE RAMA does a steady with ALICE Mc COY . . . T. GLENN WIL LIAMS keeps his pin on Alpha Xi Delta proxy BLANCHE GUSTAVSON — Isn't it amazin’ ? . . . EDWIN KEMKEY goes into the Sigma Chi stocks today — the price for planting his White Cross on Alpha Chi's DOTTIE HORN . . . Referring to the odorifer ous lawns hereabouts — BUCH WACH: "The longer I go to Oregon, the more it smells like Oregon State.” CONCLUSION . . Disillusioning as an anemic blue blood, is the fact that ROY VERNSTROM, erstwhile editor of "Old Oregon,” after having a colm of comps written about him by SO BE IT, treats the writer of same to a buck-fifteen dinner. So long for a while. International Side Show By RIDGELY CUMMINGS Ink and paper, typewriter,pen, Alack, alas groans the scrib bler— My opening sentence's been pied again. By a printer who's a dribbler. That's pretty punk doggerel Cummings oui it expresses my reaction Sat urday morning when I read what happened to my little piece about Claude Ingalls and his ‘‘2,200 subversives in Lane county.” Speaking of some subversive conversation yesterday that Mr. Ingalls might be interested in. It was a beautiful afternoon, if you remember: feathery clouds floating high and bright sunshine, more like April than January. Holding up the side of a build ing with their brows lightly furrowed by the glare were the two top-ranking student officers in the University R.O.T.C., Shelton Ingle and Bruce Ham mond. “Hi boys, taking in the sun?” I remarked in passing. “Might as well enjoy it,” says Bruce. “This may be our last spring.” Lost Generation We all laughed and nobody took the remark seriously. Mo body, that is, except me, a lit tle later when I got to thinking about it. I remembered that Scott Fritzgerald, writer of the “Lost Generation,” died in Hol lywood a few weeks ago, and I remembered some of his books like “Tender Is the Night” which dealt with the neurotic by-products of the last war, and I wondered if a similar conver sation might not have taken place on the Princeton campus along say in the early part of 1917. And I remembered John Monk Saunders who is also dead now but who sang the theme song of bitter disillusion after the last unpleasantness. And Ernest Hemingway who is far from dead but who is a different man from the writer of “The Sun Also Rises” and “Farewell to Arms.” And I wondered about what would happen to Colonel Ingle and Lieut. Colonel Hammond and how they would feel say five years from now if the pres ent war is over by then ... (I hope they'll forgive me for wondering in print, but there is nothing personal in this for I was thinking of them as sym bols. Lost Generation? Will we have our own lost generation 1916 or '47? What will happen to the seniors who graduate this June? Will they get back into the swing of things when this mess is set tled? And a hundred other ques tions. But turning to the news paper I see we're not going to war after all. Secretary of State Hull says so himself. According to an “informed source” he said yesterday at a secret hearing on the British aid bill that the increased assistance planned by the administration would not so be it, By BILL KENDALL the following is for those who read between the lines in a coLrn. CENSORED see ... a colymust doesn't have to use words to fill a colm up with nothing . . . freshman: "I'm going to make good grades . . make every honorary in sight ..." soph: "well, I was just get ting adjusted last year ... I might make an honorary yet." junior: "it just isn't grades that count . . it's the contacts you make . . senior: "hooray! 1 passed! ..." found in the managing edit or's waste basket along with several other wadded-up ver sions : Pear FAX. My heart is broken . . I thought you loved me. and now I find that you have accepted ..me juy . ROIC 1:11. OOdhys fors .er, s' broken-hcartedly, LEONARD . . . yes, strange is the plight in which a man often finds him self . . . witness the student passing one of the most respect aide or sororities last night . . . 1 m not as think as you crazy I am . . . campus quips . . . remember last year when the timer fired the gun that ended the first half in one of the UofO's games at IDAHO and—a dead chicken fell from the rafters to the center of the floor' . . JOHN CAVANAGH a STAIGER1NG through both the EMERALD news and e lit colms . . . the annex at the SGDE suffers its ow n blackout practically every morning—reason is loss of light bulbs from sockets m booths the night before BUCKY WHACKY Of HOME EC fame crossing his fingers while in a -1*»{* *, u y ^ ^ 1-^.t« .. . so be it . .. involve the United States in war. I hope the informed source quoted Hull correctly and I also hope that Hull knows what he is talking about. In the senate yesterday iso lationist leaders Nye and Whee ler introduced a resolution call ing on the belligerent nations for a statement of their war aims, the conditions on which they would agree to peace, and disclosure of any “secret treat ies for division of territorial spoils.’’ Common Sense That seems like common sense to me, to find out what all the shooting is about before jumping into the fray, but Senator Barkley thinks it is “illogical.” Barkley said if you see a cou ple of men fighting and your friend is getting the Wbrst of it you don’t make legal inquir ies before helping out the pal. But the analogy is false be cause the time element is not the same in a street scrap and an international war. A man may be knocked cold in a min ute but it takes longer to kayo a nation and it shouldn’t take very long for Churchill to an swer a few questions. 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