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Writing to Dad Made Easy
PUBLICITY chairman Buck Buchwach stormed around the
campus yesterday madder than a coed who has been
“stood up.” The occasion was the poor response on the
part of many houses to the program of sending letters home
to dads, inviting them to attend Oregon s annual Dads’
weekend celebration.
“My gosh, we wrote the letters, provided the envelopes
and offered to mail them,” Buchwach fumed. “What else
do they want us to do, sign them, and provide the stamps? ’
While Buchwach failed to take into account the number
of students who signed the letters and mailed them without
waiting for the committee, nevertheless if must he apparent
that many students did not respond to the request to “write
home” even when the letter was prepared for them and all
they had to do was sign it and address the envelope.
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A large part of these probably “didn’t have time” to do
the little addressing necessary. At least they thought
they didn’t have time. They were wrong. They had plenty
of time and if they had stopped to think about it they would
have realized it. A few minutes from a bullfest or a bridge
game, a little less loafing, or a .couple of minutes less talking
to the girl friends on the phone would have given plenty
of opportunity to get the letter ready.
Dad really hears from his son or daughter at college too
little throughout the year. Writing to him for once was made
easy. Too few responded. Even if he was four thousand
miles away and couldn’t possibly come lie undoubtedly
would appreciate the invitation.
The publicity chairman had something to be mad about.
Politics ala AWSj
T’S at least a “different” situation when an Oregon organ
ization wants political reform and can’t quite figure out how
to reform.
But so stands the Associated Women Students council.
As idealistic as any conglomeration of young womanhood,
they have a plan all worked out by which they believe the
major portion of any “blocking” together of coed living or
ganizations for AWS elections in February can be avoided.
The proposed plan is not elaborate, nor is it a sure cure for
political ills, hut it at least shows that all this reform propa
ganda hasn’t gone unheard. But with the coed’s president
in the infirmary and a constitutional change required before
elections, legislation is at a standstill.
What the AWS heads want to do is have the nominating
committee, usually composed of the senior members of tin1
executive council of the organization, meet to nominate two
candidates for each office. Contrary to the present policy,
the committee would keep them secret until the time of the
nominating-electing assembly. There the proposed candi
dates will be presented for the first time, nominations may
be presented from the floor if additional ones arc desired,
and election ballots will be placed in a ballot box as the
AWS members leave the assembly instead of at the usual
election one week earlier.
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IF any semblance of this reform is to take place, however,
the AWS must take immediate action. For according
to the present constitution the nominating assembly must,
be held at least the fourth week before final winter term
examinations (February 10-14), and “Elections shall be held
the week following the nominating assembly.”
In order, then, for the elections to be moved up to the
day of nominations the constitution must he amended. Qual
ifications for amendment of the AWS document include
printing “at least twice in the Oregon Daily Emerald” of
the proposed amendment, “after which it shall be voted on
at a special election or at any regular or special muss meet
ing.”
That leaves only next week open for the constitutional
reform to set the stage for the required nominating assembly
the following week.
Such reform probably won't solve the situation. There
will undoubtedly he inter-house, agreements between the
representatives on the nominating committee, and some of
the secrets will leak out
J3JUT it does show that women are thinking about the
situation, are recognizing the ill will it fosters.’ Out
of education may come legislation, old of legislation may
come non-partisau voting for the truly reliable candidate .
The plan does not tap the real depths of political evils,
and is relatively shallow in its approach to the conditions
it strives to correct. But these women governors—idealistic
as they are about the scope ol their plan*—may set a stage
for greater tilings. And there must, bt a Kmaissaiiec before
tlisrs csii b’5* EeJ:or'^4!: *.
Time’s Sad-Eyed Men
JT might not be so cozy to be a man of the hour, just at this
point. In fact, it must be acutely distressing. Look at
Time’s cover of recent weeks. Have you ever seen a more
world-weary lot?
Go back as far as December 2!!, 1940. 1’ope Pius XI, the
“Martyr of 1940,” looks quizzically,- almost unbelievingly,
out at the world. Maybe he doubts the statement that “In
Germany only the cross has not bowed to the swastika.”
Move up to January 6, 1941, and catch the ferocity of
Time’s “Man of the Year,” Winston Churchill. He has
offered his people “blood, toil, tears, and sweat.” On his
shoulders rests the burden of an empire.
The January 13, 1941, Time presents “The Honorable
Mr. Secretary Jones” and comments that “if jobs were wives
he’d be tin- patriarch of polygamists.” Mr. Jones looks dis
tinctly as though he had bitten off a very large bite and is
wondering what to do about chewing it.
* * *
J^HNG Boris III, “Bulgaria for the Bulgars—if possible,”
has a doubting cast about his eyes as lie salutes the
world from Time’s January 20 cover. He stands proudly,
be-medalled, bewildered.
Quite the saddest looking of the group is CIO’s Phillip
Murray on the January 27 cover. He, too, looks only into
confusion. Cogs and wheels and men and money must be
nightmares to him.
These sad-eyed, laden men are playing checkers with fate,
Each move is watched, on them depend the problems of ships
for Britain, God and the Vatican, safe money risks, the
future of a tiny nation, and the welter of business that is
American industry.
These men are brave, for they are aware. They can look
ahead, sensing impending shocks and current states of mind.
They brace themselves. How sad they look. —P. E.
Does It Take a Death?
(Contributed)
rJ"'HURSDAY noon a boy was struck down by a car on
Thirteenth street next to Oregon.
lie hit the fender of the car and flipped two-thirds of the
way over, and lit on his side near the curb. He was able to
get up and walk away, but that’s not the point. The speed
of the car is not the point. The fact that the street was
slightly wet and muddy causing the car 1o skid is not the
point.
The point is that he might not have moved as quickly as
he did. lie might not have been bumped into the gutter.
lie might have been thrown under the wheels and been killed.
* * *
JC such a catastrophe had occurred the editorial columns of
this paper would blaze forth this morning saying “traffic
must be abolished from Thirteenth street.” The administra
tion would take immediate steps to see that no such accident
ever occurred again, and messages would come in from all
over the state asking that some sort of precaution be taken
against accidents of that kind. In short, Thirteenth street
would be closed.
As it is now, the matter will be settled between the parties
involved, and most of the school will go on its way scarcely
aware of the accident, when all it, would take would be one
murder to stop such accidents from ever occurring again.
We say murder because any death which can be prevented,
and is not, is murder.
Must a life be sacrificed before we can have action? Some
day Thirteenth street will be closed. Why can’t that day
be soon—soon enough to prevent murder? J. W. S.
This Collegiate World
By ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS
IT CAN HAPPEN HERE, observes the Daily Cardinal at the
University of Wisconsin, in relating the following incident:
You are in a political science lecture. The lecturer is talking
about the rip-roaring 1920 Republican presidential convention in
Chicago, after which the Congress hotel found itself some 50 grand
in the hole.
Rut you can't sue a whole mess of baby-kissers scattered all over
this fair land. You can’t stop Republicans on the street and assess
them a proportional share of the damages. You can t serve papers
on a real elephant, much less a symbolic one.
“What arc you gonna do? Whom can you sue?” the lecturer
thunders.
“Whom are you gonna sue?”
There were courts to handle cases like this—lawyers would be
seen -the Congress would sue. Would sue the Republican party
for damages!
From the silent depths the answer breaks forth: “Yehudi."
You wouldn’t expect it in a political science lecture, says the
Cardinal.
From All Sides
Exchange by Mildred Wilson
Parents who worry about
their college sons and daugh
ters not getting enough sleep
will find comfort in the figures
compiled in a recent study con
ducted by the Student Opinion
Surveys of America. Collegians
who say they sleep less than
seven hours each night consti
tute only one-fifth of the na
tional student body. The other
four-fifth get at least seven
hours, and of the total 7 per
cent say they spend nine or
mote hours asleep
It was found that women, by
their own admission, sleep more
than do men. Lower-classmen
spend more tune in bed than do
juniors, seniors, and graduates.
—The Daily Texan.
Slippery ice—Very t.tam
Pretty girl—Tumbled in
Saw a boy—On the bank
Cave a shriek—Ihsa she sank
Boy on bank—Heard her shout
Jumped right in—Pulled her out
Now he’s hors—Very nice
But she had—To break the iee.
The McMinnvillan.
John Brosky. junior at the
University ot Pittsburgh, spoke
his term paper—and it wasn't
in a speech class. Last week he
handed in his history paper on
two phonograph records. On
them he had recorded his views
on the ‘ Rise of National Mon
archies ” Brosky, an amateur
' adio fan. rigged up the record
ing outfit in his home in Car
negie.
Commented Dr. John C.
Amundson, history professor, as
he listened to the records on
the faculty club radio-phono
graph. ’ This is certainly some
thing lva.v."
— lie Pitt Ne„s
The
Passing
Parade
By HIMMBEKT SEESALL,
They say that CHUCK EA
TON wanted to live in an apart
ment last year, and went to see
DEAN SCHWERING to get
permission to live out of the of
ficial list of boarding houses.
"Why do you want to live
out?" queried Mrs. Schwering.
“Well—er—I'm married,” ad
libbed Chuck.
“You are!" exclaimed the
dean unbelievingly, "Why, I
haven’t heard—who are you
married to?"
(Pause) “Oh—er — a little
Japanese girl," exclaimed
Chuck.
Mrs. Schwering naturally, was
astounded. “But where is she—
I’ve never heard of her?”
“Well—” came the answer, “I
left her in Tokyo!"
Wonder who the ten JOE
COLLEGE and BETTY COED
finalists are—Thus far it hasn’t
leaked out, and that’s no dream!
Operative two spent all day
trying to find out and thus cre
ate a “skoop"—but Messrs.
Riesch, Goss, and the deans are
very unsociable about the whole
affair—maybe we'll have better
luck with the Little Colonel.
Enough of that—of course
you know by now that LIBBY
EADES’ knee is all healed up,
and she's once again reporting
in at the Side every so often—
One of Hendricks’ cuties, OLIV
IA DYSINGER, now has Phi
Sig PORTER JENNINGS’ pin
. . . MEN — ATTENTION!
We hear that one heckuva cute
Alpha Chi transfer from the
cow-ledge is now gracing our
campus—she answers to the
name of SHIRLEY HOLCOMB.
GORDY HOY will soon be in
the Sigma Chi stocks, which
have been working overtime
lately, ’cause he didn’t think
that going steady with H. J.
KERR was enough—he had to
go and plant his pin. But, given
the chance, who wouldn’t?
BILL HAMMEL, SAE, is im
porting talent from Portland
for his house dance—got her
all dated up, three weeks early.
GRACE BABBITT is another
cute Hendricks girl from near
Portland—only it’s Portland,
Maine . . . We hear tha,t
ELAINE CLARK is getting a
little puckered at BOB BROD
ERICK — he's broken dates
three weeks in a row—for good
excuses, but even enuf good ex
cuses is enuf—sheza Kappa,
heza ATO . . . HERB (SENA
TOR) BARBUR is fighting
hard for JOHN DICK'S start
ing berth on the law school
hoop team, which meets the
Emerald Saturday morning at
10 in a do-or-die battle.
At the libe—that vibrantly
buoyant Theta, BETTY LOU
BRUGMAN being squired about
by one of the California Sigma
Chis, CHANNING KILBOURN
. . . Special operative 4 has dis
covered still another fingerwavc
in WALKER TREECE'S hairdo.
JEAN JOHNSON left school,
but that didn't make any differ
ence to MONK karterman;
who got initiated and'promptly
ordered a Theta Chi sweetheart
pin . . . Who was it that re
marked that these WPA em
ployees work just like Kappa
Sigs study? . . . MARY JANE
WORMSER momentarily gets
behind in law school to undergo
an appendectomy.
It seems that one name was
omitted from THOMAS
WRIGHT'S list of girls who
have a monopoly on the Fiji
house—how about that LA
DUKE? . . . and speaking of
PHI GAMMA DELTAS. STU
RANDALL seems to be making
the most of his last month at
college. Latest fling is with
CONNIE W A LB RIDGE. Alpha
Phi beauty. See you at the in
formal (I hopei Saturday night.
Women sailing captains will oc
cupy the limelight during the pre
sentation of the final chapter of
“Our Wonder World," a scries of
programs concerning the Smith
sonian institution.
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By RLDGELY CUMMINGS
The juggernaut of war is
rumbling ominously closer to
the United States.
I remember once seeing a
gaudy lithograph picturing Hin
_dus in white
loin cloths
throwing them
selves in the
path of a huge
car which was
covered with ob
scene paintings
and bore upon
it the image of
J agannatn,
Cummings Lord of the Hin
du world. Every year at the
festival of Rathayatraf don’t
ask me why they call it that)
the juggernaut is drawn
through the streets and it was
formerly believed that devotees
sacrificed themselves beneath
the wheels.
Recent research indicates that
the Hindu god objected to blood
and that its presence near his
image was considered defile
ment, but the word juggernaut
is in our language to stay. It's
a good word to describe the
trend of events and yesterday
two elderly gentlemen made
gestures of devotion.
They Favor War
James W. Gerard, who was
U.S. ambassador to Germany
during the last world war, told
the senate foreign relations
committee he was in favor of
declaring war on Germany.
Senator Hiram Johnson had
just asked him: “If the situa
tion is as bad as you say, why
don’t we declare war against
Germany now'.”
“I’m in favor of it but see no
necessity for it,” Gerard re
plied. “We have committed
enough unneutral acts accord
ing to the H\gue convention of
1907 to justify a declaration of
war by the Nazis, but they don’t
declare wrar because they fear
the effect upon their own peo
ple.”
Also yesterday, speaking in
Chicago, Secretary of the Navy
Knox said the nation is stand
ing at the sidelines of ‘‘the most
critical battle in world history”
and added, ‘‘I would rather die
fighting Hitler than live under
his rule.”
Marshall Prophesies
It is extremely unlikely that
either Knox or Gerard will be
called upon to die but, if Verne
Marshall, chairman of the No
Foreign War committee, is to
be believed then the U. S. gov
ernment is making prepara
tions for a lot of boys to die.
Four and a half million iden
tification tags have been or
dered by the war department,
according to Marshall.
“Last Monday evening I
warned the middlewest by radio
that our defense legislation, en
acted and pending, calls for out
fitting an army of 4,000,000
American soldiers whose ulti
mate assignment will be to try
to. recapture continental Europe
from the Nazis,” Marshall said.
“I scarcely hoped for govern
mental verification of that
statement at this early date,”
he added, referring to the tags.
Juggernaut Rolls on
Things look bad, there’s no
doubt about that. Here’s a quote
I picked out of “The Magazine
of Wall Street” for January 25.
It’s from an editorial urging
passage of the lend-lease bill:
“Our neutrality of course has
long since been abandoned in
fact. We are trying to help
Britain defeat her enemies,
without full participation in
war or risk of American lives.”
The juggernaut rolls on. It is
a wild and hungry thing. So far
we have been asked only for
American arms and munitions
to throw into its gaping maw.
How soon will it be demanding
American flesh and blood ?
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