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Jimmie Leonard, Managing Editor
Kent Stitzcr, News Editor
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Stitzer, Tirnmie Leonard, and Professor George Turnbull, adviser.
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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
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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.
Civilization is wonderful. We
even have radios nowadays.
Two University of Alabamf
coeds who now are roommates ant
sorority sisters traveled more thai
6,000 miles on the same boat Iasi
summer without knowing caicl
other.
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