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Oregon W Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald, published daiiy 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 tor 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 JAMES W. FROST, Business Manager ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Hal Olney, Helen Angel! Jimmie Leonard, Managing Editor Kent Stitzer, News Editor Fred May, Advertising Manager Boh Rogers, National Advertising Mgr. Editorial and Business Offices located on ground floor of Journalism building. Phones 3300 Extension: 382 Editor; 353 News Office; 359 Sports Office; and 354 Business Offices. Editorial Board : Roy Vernstrom, Pat Erickson, Helen Angell, Harold Olney, Kent Stitier. Timmie Leonard, and Professor George Turnbull, adviser.__ Tipptrp BUSINESS STAFF Anita Backberg, Classified Advertising M anager Ron Alpaugh, Layout Production Man ager TIPPER NE^ Bill Wailan, Circulation Manager Emerson Page, Promotion Director Eileen Millard. Office Manager ys STAFF Pat Erickson, Women’s Editor Bob Flavelle, Co-Sports Editor Ken Christianson, Co-Sports Editor Ray Schrick, Ass t Manag ing Editor rom Wright, Ass’t Manag ing Editor Betty Jane Biggs, Ass’t News Editor Corrine Wignes, executive Secretary Wes Sullivan, Ass’t News Editor Mildred Wilson, Exchange Editor To the Greatest Number r^NB of the best statements of what should be the aim of student government which we have come across is the answer penned by a candidate in a Wisconsin student govern ment examination. This candidate wrote: “The aims of student government in my mind are to bring social, cultural, and recreational opportunities to the great est number of students possible. It secondly should express campus opinion, reflecting in its policies the desires of the students. It should under all circumstances keep the best interest of the greatest number in mind. “For the student leader it should provide wide, concrete experience in efficient administration of government and campus functions. It should be pliable enough that excep tional managerial ability might find expression in activities other than petty politics or ‘cut and dried, repetitious administration of old existing functions.” * * * 'TUIIS conception of student government is what the Emer ald has been trying to promote this year—it is what we believe is lacking in the present ASUO and class admin istration. In the first place student government is not bringing social and cultural, and recreational opportunities to the greatest number of students when it is excluding part of the students from memberships — when it is allowing a minority who possess power to control the affairs of the majority. In class affairs, only those who have paid the “poll tax, i. e., bought class cards, have the privilege of voices in class elections or class affairs. How can student government pro vide cultural and recreational opportunities tor the greatest number when the greatest number is excluded? * # • JN the second place the present political system losters “petty politics.” It is not providing any concrete expe rience in efficient administration of government. It is pro viding experience in a type of politics which is anything but desirable. Student administration has been anything but efficient this year—in many cases it has been downright inefficient. If training in efficient administration is ever to be received it should be here in college. With a small and restricted group the idea of looking at government as a chance to per form a service for as many as possible rather than as a per sonal quest for power should be cultivated. Scholarship for Athletes 'JHIE terras of the newly-announced “Herbert Crombie Howe Scholarship Fund’’ are resplendent with all the humane qualities and interests which ought to be represented in a tribute to the Oregon professor that the memorial hon ors. The Howe memorial, which is to provide an annual growing fund to further the education each year of some worthy ath lete who is forced to discontinue school because of an injury making him unable to participate in sports, was announced Wednesday by Mrs. llowe as a wish of the professor who died last winter. It is very right that the widow of Webfoot athletes’ great est. friend should give the University a “living” gift, full of all the appreciation and consideration for other human beings that were the best-loved qualities of Herbert Howe. It is right that the scholarship is to go preferably to a football player each year, for that was really Professor Howe’s favorite sport, lie liked to reminisce about his early fascination for the game, remembering how he went out for the team his first year at Cornell, was put on the sidelines because he was too small, and “stayed there” as a devoted fan. Until his health became too poor, he never missed a football practice in his nearly two score years at Oregon. # # # JT is right that the memorial to a man like Herbert Howe should express Ids interest in the people around him. He was proud of the fact that lie knew every Oregon athlete personally who played on University teams during his 2S years as the school's athletic representative in Pacific coast conferences. It is right too that the fund established in memory of the quick-thinking English professor whose green eyeshade vas an Oregon institution, should be one that mellows and grows with tiuic. For it is a fitting tribute to a man of human qualities, who quaintly mixed a sincere enthusiasm for college athletics, a love for English literature that brought the old masters works to life for undergraduate minds, a mellow dis cerning wit, and a genuine affection for life, in a combina tion that has no duplicate. —11. A. A good apple polisher is a person who knows how to laugh at a joke that isu't funny. “When are you going to put mj name in the paper'.'” seems to be the query of a great number of students. The alls .<■ (Z h -2. ' 0g do SOgZvt to v ar. K£ VOtyBY WAS ORIGI MATED BY MCGILL UNIVER SITY STUDENTS IN 1879/ Ji PERPETUAL -STUDENT W*. CULLEN BRYANT KEMP ATTENDED CLASHES' AT COLUMBIA U. FOR CVER. 20 YEARS. AFTER HIT FRESHMAN TEAR IN 1868, THERE WAS AN INTERLUDE IN HIS EDUCATION, AT WHICH TIME he acquiesced TO HIS FATHER'S WISHES' AND ENTERED BU5INESS-, BUT ON HIT FATHERS DEATH HE RETURNED To HIS STUDIES. HIT LAST REGISTRATION WAT IN 1922/ z BUCKSHOT CORNELL U. CLAIMS TO BE THE FIRST TRULY NON- SECTARIAN UNIVERSITY IN THE WORLD/ Biography in Crisis By J. PARKE William S. Knudsen, director general of the office of produc tion management for the na tional defense program is a man who not only wears a hat at his desk so he can think bet ter (so he says), but also an executive who dislikes women secretaries, since one burst into tears at his language during a conference. But that is not all. “Bill” Knudsen stands at tho top of those immigrants who have distinguished themselves in their adopted land—Ameri ca. William Knudsen's career be gan early in his life and from the bottom up. Apprenticed to a bicycle factory in his native Copenhagen, he created a sen sation by building and riding the first tandem ever seen in Copenhagen. Coming to the United States at the age of twenty, Knudsen worked in New York shipyards for a time and then came to repair boilers in a round house of the Erie rail road. Soon he was appointed stock room keeper. Success came upon success. In 1902, Knudsen became su perintendent of a bicycle fac tory in Buffalo, New York. When that company was taken over by Henry Ford in 1911, William Knudsen became the installer of assembly plants for the entire country. Wars are not new to the 62 yearjpld defense production chief, how can they be to a man of his age! In World War I, Knudsen became Henry Ford’s production manager but resigned in the following years over differences. It was then that the General Motor’s Cor poration took him over and gave him the vice-presidency and managership of Chevrolet cars. His special job of building a Chevrolet to outsell Ford’s Model-T proved a success. The year 1933 found Knudsen execu tive vice-president with five makes of cars to manage. In 1937 he was made president of the General Motors Corpora tion. Feeling himself under obliga tion to both workers and stock holders during the United Au tomobile workers’ strike in 1937, which closed 14 G.M. plants, Knudsen let the matter be settled by Governor Mur phy of Michigan and with ap parent fairness. To those who would accuse him of having used the speed-up system, he replies that only accuracy pro duces good work. Genial, hard-working, and democratic, William Knudsen, a giant of six-feet-three, is loyal to his native land. Few would know that before 1914 his name was Signius Wilhelm Poul. From All Sides Exchange by Mildred Wilson A collection of a quarter of a million beetles was recently do nated to Harvard university by Drj Henry C. Fall, Tyngsboro, who spent 60 years amassing the collection. A teacher of physics and chemistry, Dr. Fall captured and classified the bugs as a side hobby, and the collection includes two North American series each containing about 100,000 specimens, and 50,000 from foreign countries together with several thousand butter flies and moths. —The Harvard Crimson. * * * Blue has replaced red as the danger color for the poor male, according to an article from Indiana university. Girls who are trying to get a man—or keep the one they have aro advised to sprinkle their ward robe generously with navy blue. Eight men were hooked up to a gadget called a psychometer. Then they gazed upon gorgeous models in colored dresses. It was the laity in blue who made their hands the clammiest, their hearts the jumpiest. The next most agitating col ors were coral, beige, and green. What happened to red? Nobody knew. —The Indiana Daily Student. 1 took her to a night club I took her to a show 1 took her almost everywhere A girl and boy could go. t took her to swell dances 1 took her out to tea. When all my dough wa,. gone. I saw She had been taking me. —Oregon State Barometer. The University of California -• i.s l?^ - ana * v e r i ^ , 1 the fox hunt which was run re cently to the delight of step-sit ters. Instead of the traditional fox, a motor bike-mounted mes senger boy was out in front of the pack, composed of a mixed band of campus mongrels. “The dogs don't bother me at all," said the messenger. “My motor makes more noise than they do, and besides, they never catch up with me.” The pack refused to talk to reporters. —The Daily Californian. * * * Henry Tatsumi, assistant pro fessor of Japanese languages at the University of Washington, is the only person at the Uni versity who »can operate their very unportable Japanese type writer. The carriage, 27 inches long with a roller six inches in diameter moves vertically and horizontally over a yard square galley, stopping as an unseen lift picks up a single letter, inks it and presses it hammer-Ukc onto paper. “1 can type 21 characters a minute now," Tatsumi explained P roudly as he laboriously tracked down Chinese mono syllabaries a n d transferred them vertically to paper. “There are from eight to nine thousand characters at hand," the professor said, “but as a rule I use only about five thou said."—The University of Wash ington Daily. Early to bed—early to rise Keeps your roommate from wealing your ties. -The Y News tBrigham Young University.) Though Mitlsaps college is supported by the Methodist church, its Baptist union, only denominational organization on the campus, has a membership of 10* out of a student body of wright or wrong With TOMMY WRIGHT If SHAKESPEARE were alive to read this, he would probably rather be dead, what with our “Much Ado About Nothing." Most of our readers think it is a "Comedy of Errors” but you take it “As You Like It” for “All's Well That Ends Well,” we hope. THIS WEEK . . . Dear old SHAKEY takes an other pounding from the “trite” press as we do a little typify ing. Typical University of Oregon coed: Much hair-do about noth ing. Coed’s idea of a good date: All’s Well That Spends Well. REBUKED . . . By the Susie counterparts of Oregon State’s Aggies for not putting their names somewhere in the columns of calamity. To tell you the truth this isn’t a daily edition of the Green Goose and the ed censors this stuff. CAMPUS WHISPERS . . . One Chysy has been taking a beating for having his car rec ognized more than once in the Skinner park area—maybe his frat brother JOE REIG could help explain . . . another park Angle appears when Phidelt WALKER TREECE has a fog light swiped from the night popular Hendricks—you must have been preoccupied MISTER TREECE ... Of the gossip hungry Susie gals, MURIEL “MIN” STEVENS picks up one of those third finger, left hand deals . . . The pair of trousers that got the leap year call was MORRIS JACKSON . . . The HERSCH PATTON - JANE WEBSTER deal isn’t so pat, ’tis understood . . . MICKEY MITCHELL of the Delta Gam glams has CHUCK HAENER, CLINT PAYNE, and WIL FORD REYNOLDS doing a mite of pharynx slitting .... an answer — the WYCOFF MILLS clique isn’t clicking — and a Phi Sig named COLE MAN moves in . . . you asked for it — PAT McMAHON is having trouble aplenty deciding —to be decided: VERN SELLIN or TOMMY ROBLIN . . . . FRENCH of the ccon depart ment almost made the 31st deadline past leap year, but We said "Almost”—The girl is a hometown find . . . GRANNY “CMC” McCORMICK visits the campus. The reason — ANN REYNOLDS. CONCLUSION . . . The deadline’s near And you’d like to hear That we are finished for today. So long for a while. Fifty-six major meetings drew 59,000 persons to the Uni versity of Illinois in the last academic year. International Side Show By BXDGELY CUMMINGS Most of the news about the international situation that came over the wire last night was of an interpretative nature dealing with tno imminece oi a German inva sion of England, and I don’t thing my read er (s) would find it very interest ing if I tried to re - interpret what the inter Cummings preters think is going to happen. Most of the interpretation is based on Hitler’s speech of the other day so all you would have to do is read it and draw your own conclusions. It was ob viously prepared for foreign consumption anyway, with its promises of "blue wonders’’ in the way of military surprises, a repetition of the Fuehrer’s faith in Italy, and the threat of tor pedoing all ships that appear before the Nazi torpedo tubes. His File So in lieu of more interesting topics I am forced to resort to my desk drawer, where I have stored various items in antici pation of just such a contin gency. The first item is a paragraph taken from a speech Premier Antonescu delivered about two weeks ago when Rumania was in the throes of an Iron Guard revolution. I saved it because I think it is funny. “I swear before God, the na tion and history,’’ cried Anton escu, "That my four months of governing have been the most successful, the most ferocious and most soul destroying any man could endure for his coun try." Not American It may be just a mistake in translation, but putting fero cious and successful side Ly side seems to give a penetrating in sight into the way a European ruler’s mind works. Certainly a ferocious four months of gov erning is not the American idea of desirable. As for the soul-destroying part of Antonescu’s duties, it sounds like the Rumanian lead er would make a good candidate for dne of Pat Erickson’s sad eyed rulers. She's right when she editorializes that these are not times to gladden the hearts of responsible men. Somehing Wrong Something is radically wrong when there is so much intelli gence, technical skill, culture, and Christianity in the world that the only way to solve prob lems is for human beings to don silly-looking uniforms and go out to kill each other off in wholesale lots. Here’s another item, filed be cause I didn’t understand it very well and intended to do a little research before springing it. I haven't done the research but if any reader wants to do it for me I’ll be glad to print it in this space (with the edi torial board’s consent). so be it... By BELL FENDAUL the custom of pedestrians using the sidewalks from University street to Kincaid street and cars using Thirteenth street alongside this walk is as turned around as a dentist saying “ahhh" . . . the traffic along this walk between classes is clear out of propor tion in relation to the size of the walk . . . it’s only a four-minute walk from University to Kincaid as the OLD CROW dies, hut with the pedestrian-traffic coming four-abreast there is a direct rise in walking-time . . . packed in like a spring term lunch basket, a sidewalk pedestrian either circles in and out ot the oncoming traffic or SUZY-Q's through the crowd . . . some prefer the hop-skip-jump-stop go method . . . what a bowler could do down this sidewalk alley! . . . the crowded condition along this walk is that laundry that shrinks human politeness . . . for here is the area where “ex cuse me” dies ami “who the do you think you are" is taken up. . . . more glares are exchanged here than over a bridge table. in summarization, SO BE IT would like to say the above facts are as correct as bustles in 1SS0 . . . comma . . . dash . . . period . . . personal postscripts . . . . GAM PHl's CAROLYN COL LIER who is a lesson in sincer ity and efficiency . . . the HUR RELL-like pix of KAPPA DOR OTHY HAVENS photoed bv GEORGE GODFREY which is so much in demand by—among other — STAN ' c AVANAGH' STAIGER . . . DELTA GAM LIA EiUlA VERDURlffiN is the campus memo that reminds you that the feminine fig ure can be very beautiful . ... the NED SPARKS of the campus — WALLY ROSS MANN . . . TOMMY WRIGHT whose head informs his type writer what to say — and his typewriter is very empty . . . doll-like ADELE SAY . . . . RUSS 1SELI, SAE, and MARY JANE WORMSER, Pifi, steady ing along . . . DELTA DEL D's JEAN MORRISON'S conversa tion is her autobiography . . . JIM THAYER who is democrat ic as C's on a report card . . . JEAN WILCOX, phone 0i7, with a personality beam that 13 continually lit up with a smile. . . BARBARA rATTERSON, JEEP girl, obviously ignoring BRUCE McINTOSH . . . . CHUCK GREEN who cooks up his own statements and facts — and then has to eat his own words. . . answer persistent BOB HERNDON . . - PROF LKSCH, who. outside of being an ENGLISH prof, ia really quits normal. . . . Indictment Filed It seems that a federal grand jury has been investigating bot tlenecks in defense production. The other day an indictment was filed by this jury, charg ing that American defense was being impeded by restrictive agreements between the Alum inum company of America and the German dye trust. According to government sources, Dow Chemical com pany delivered magnesium to German docks for 21 cents a pound—including freight and insurance — while charging 30 cents a pound with the freight added to the bill in this coun try. The jurors found agreements permitted Germany to obtain four times as much magnesium as has been available to the U.S. on an annual basis. These Indicted Named in the indictments were a flock of men and cor porations which indicate a world-wide tie-up of interlock ing directorates. Here are some of them: General Aniline and Film corp. of New York, which is assertedly controlled by the German dye trust, which goes by the high-powered name of Interessengemeinschaft Farben industrie Aktiengesellschaft of Frankfort, Germany; the Alum inum company of America; Ar thur V. Davis, chairman of the board; R. A. Hunt, president; I. W. Wilson, vice-president; other officers of Alcoa; the American Magnesium corp., in which Alcoa and General Ani line have interests; the Mag nesium Development corp., in which Alcoa and I. G. Farbenin dustrie have interests; and so on and so forth. Oregon ^Emerald Saturday Advertising Staff: Warren Roper, Sat. Adv. Mgr. Norma Baker Barbara Schmieding Copy Desk: Ray Schrick. city editor Jean Eckley Dorothea Cathcart Lynn Johnson Ruby Jackson Bernie Engel Night Staff: Ted Goodwin, Night Editor Don Butzin Hunter Van Sicklen Charlie Woodruff Bob Frazier J. G. Quick has been registrar at the University of Pittsburgh for more than 25 years. University of Minnesota has 1,756 teachers on its academic staff and 1,317 employes in the various divisions of its non academic staff. i, DRESS for the Informal NEW spring styles are here The flowing freshness of Spring is here 1004 Will. St. Phone 633 Oregon (# Emerald Classified Ads Phone 3300—354 Room 5, Journalism Bldg. READER ADS Ten words minimum accepted. First insertion 2c per word. Subsequent insertions lc per word. DISPLAY ADS Flat rate 37c column inch. Frequency rate (entire term) : 35c per column inch one time week. 34c per column inch twice or more a week. Ads will be taken over the telephone on a charge basis if the advertiser is a sub scriber to the phone. Mailed advertisements must have sufficient remittance enclosed to cover definite number of insertions. Ads must be in Emerald business office no later than 6 p.m. prior to the day of in sertion. • Beauty Parlors Eugene’s Most Modern Shop CITY BARBER and BEAUTY SHOP 855 Oak St. Phone 349 • Found CLAIM at Depot, foot of Univer sity street. Book$: 1 Essay 3 Prose 2 Social Science 2 History of Europe 1 English Poets 3 Composition 1 Physics 1 Psychology 1 Reporting 2 English Essentials 3 Literature 5 Looseleaf Notebooks 8 Notebooks Miscellaneous 1 String of pearls 2 Rings Kerchiefs Cloves 3 Purses 1 Slide Rule 12 Pens 5 Eversharp3 1 Debate Pm 1 Pledge Pm 3 Girls' hats 3 Boys' Hats 7 Umbrellas 1 Overcoat 1 Leather Jacket 1 Slicker 1 Raincoat • Magazines Don’t Forgot to Send Valentines Get them at MAGAZINE EXCHANGE 128 E. 11th • Specialist CHA ^UEW CHINESE HEBB CO. Herb Specialist. Ueflnlte relief against all diseases and chronic male, fe male, and children ail ments. 30 yr. experience. Price reasonable. Free I TL tO MtMMiMmiuMiiauun. nuurs iu a. 6 p.m. wkdays. Sun. 10-2. 935 Oak This Ad Brought Results . . • Lost STRING of small pearls on chain. Reward. Bet ty Keller, Phone 11200. SHE FOUND HER PEARLS through the Oregon Emerald Classifieds Call 3300 - 354 or Bring T hem to Rm. 5, Journalism