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Oregon ^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 postoffice, 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 EDITOR.^: Hal Olney, Helen Angell 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 Stitzer, Timmie Leonard, and Professor George Turnbull, adviser. UPPER BUSINESS STAFP Anita Backberg, Classified Advertising Manager Ron Alpaugh, Layout Production Man ager Bill Wallan, Circulation Manager Emerson Page, Promotion Director Eileen Millard. Office Manager Pal Erickson, Women’s Editor Bob Flavelle, Co-Sports Editor Ken Christianson, Co-Sports Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Kay Schrick, Ass’t Manag ing Editor Tom 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 An Honorable Attempt ^"^REGON’S executive council of its Associated Women Students voted unanimously early this week to do every thing in its power to prevent aligning of political blocs in its February women’s elections by a constitutional reform. Before the amendment can even be brought to a vote, there were campus rumors last night that one or two houses had begun a telephone campaign of the “I’ll vote for you if you’re up if you’ll vote for me if I’in up” variety. Ore gon’s coed attempt to reduce political bigotry on the campus by eliminating the week’s lime between announcement of nominations and actual elections, is being threatened before the reform gets to first base. The attempt to reorganize, sponsored and worked out by Mortar board, is built on slippery ice. It must have complete support of the whole campus if there is to be any semblance of success in the effort to do away with the short-sighted political setup which has only recently begun to gain a strong foothold in women’s elections. Mortar Board is an organization made up of the most out standing senior women on the campus. All of them have held offices in the field of women’s activities . . . they know the taste of political success and failure. When one hundred percent support for a sweeping reform of the present align ment policy comes from these veterans, it at least deserves a fair trial by the campus. # # # ''JMIEIR idea, to keep secret the two nominations for each office until the actual election mass meeting, can be successful. It can be a step toward greater integrity in selection of leaders for women’s groups. But it can only be come a real gesture of reform when every women’s living organization on the campus declares itself behind the plan and actually agrees to approach the problem with a complete program of cooperation. The new provision may not cure the evils, hut it will cer tainly help to reduce the clear-cut divisions between living organizations so prominent in last spring’s coed elections. Mortar Boards arc idealistic about the plan . . . their heads are in the clouds about its possibilities. But any hope for the “choice of merit” election is doomed unless Oregon women absorb that idealistic spirit of these senior organ izers, and make an honorable attempt to back the amend ment in all its provisions. —II. A. Union Now (Continued from page one) Hazel P. Schwering: Yes, by all meaus. The campus is certainly ready for it and students have suffered injustice long enough. McArthur court is unavailable in basketball season and Gerlinger is too small for the big campus affairs. We need a banquet hall for such events as Dads’ Day. It ’s better to furnish students with a place for recreation than to have them leave the campus. Robert D. Horn: Yes, emphatically. It is of greater value than gates and obscure scholarship funds. It is not only needed for democratic aspects but for sheer satisfaction. Virgil D. Earl: Decidedly L do. Students are entitled to some consideration. There is too much conflict in housing of social and academic functions. Victor P. Morris: Yes, we need a Student Union building without question. James R. Jewell: I believe wholly, fully, and sincerely in Student Union. Few things can do so much for a campus as such a building. .. L. C. Ball: I certainly think we need one badly. # * # JI'ST what is behind this present movement is not popularly understood. Few realize its pattern. A Student Union was conceived in the spring of 'St when undergraduates campaigned for funds to be used in construction of such a building. As time passed the Student Union successes at Wisconsin, Wyoming, Utah, Minucsotoa, Michigan, Texas and other schools were brought to Oregon. The plan of L’l gained momentum. In 19:19. President Urb appointed a faculty fact-finding group to study Oregon's physical plant and find its possible uses for student social affairs. This committee included Dean Ralph V.' Leighton. Business Manager J. Orville Limlstrom, Athletic Director Anson B. Cornell, and Dean of Men Virgil D. Lari. Significant was their recommendation that the president "take steps to bring about the construction of the first unit of a Student Union building that will provide a suitable place for University dances and large social e\euts.’’ That same a ear the student executive committee voted to haie 20 pet cent of thr funds collected from optional ASUO memberships earmarked for the Student Union coffers. This was" a significant step and added approximately $5,500 an nually to the fund Vlthough the present incidentals fee ($2 activity cards) has necessitated changing the percentage somewhat, the annual dividend will still be about $5,500. QTHER sources of revenue for Student Unionism haie been and still are the annual rental receipts from the Co-op St:. and :'c.„ p’rep*::/ originally par-aased ty Us Uni versify for a Union building. Net returns yearly total about ten thousand dollars. Another possible source is the unpledged balance of Uni versity student building fees. That fee also has a history. With the Hayward field grandstands, McArthur court, Chap man hall, Infirmary, and the new Library having been financed in part by student building fees, undergraduates recently began wondering why a Student Union could not be built in part by such fees (originally adopted by the student body to make Student Union possible). The answer came back. The State Board of Higher Education had pledged all of the fees for some time to come. Following this answer, the same inquisitive students began searching for other methods of financing construction of such a building knowing that ammortization programs are as sound as the funds behind them. They are still searching but more intelligently since they realize that it is highly possible to reduce a future Student Union indebtedness by the three methods already mentioned: rental receipts from Co-op store and Student Union property, funds from ASUO, and cash returns from .$5 per term building fees (available possibly by 1944). All of these returns are conservatively sound and promises to increase appreciably. # # # p.INALLV, why is a Student Union building needed? Too numerous are the answers. The professors and advisers quoted give several. Self-evident is another: Oregon’s “non organized” students. According to Dean Karl! Onthank they total almost 50 per cent of the student body. They are commuters, townspeople, private home boarders, and they are increasing in numbers each year. This group needs great er social activity and has least access to it. As a place to spend leisure time, to eat lunches, to mix with fellow under graduates, to find a “home of learning,” a Student Union is almost imperative for the “unorganized” group. Other reasons, however, are plentiful. Today student social events interfere with academic and sports programs. Such social events should be given an air of dignity through decent appointments. A dance pavilion, a banquet hall, a lounging room, and student committee rooms are sorely needed. Therefore this cry of Student Unionism is not so much hot air. With the greater increase in student enrollment traceable to families of small incomes, with little increase noted in students having sufficient funds to insure fraternity and sor ority connections, with this greater increase fostering more students to be “on their own,” the need for better free-time facilities becomes more apparent. * * # ^^NCE built and occupieid, a Student Union will increase the morale of students, will make them feel a greater equity in their University, will therefore build loyalty (tritely expressed as a “school spirit’’), and will once again incite pep for worthwhile e^tra-curricular activities in the apathetic student majority. Once our University was required to cater only to intellect ual needs—so a Library was provided. Today there is a demand for the recognition of other phases of student growth with the democratic extension of education—so a Student Union should be provided. Learning the art of living is as important as acquiring the art of academic improvement. Quoting from Editor Berlan Lemon’s squib in his Oregon State Barometer (January ill, 1941) we read: “ no build ing erected on the campus has had so profound an effect on the life of the college as the Memorial Union. It has be come the true center of Oregon State college activities. Something that really brings home its value is to visit the campus of any one of several schools which do not have such a student center.” If the increasing chatter from undergraduates is meaning ful, Oregon is ripe for a Student Union. —R. N. V. This Collegiate World By THE ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS It's not particularly unusual for a boy to be happy because of a girl. But it was at the University of North Carolina one day recently. Walking into class several minutes late with a smile on his face and a cigar in his hand, one of Dr. E. E. Ericson’s students startled the professor into stopping his lecture. “HAVE A CIGAR,” he said. Dr. Ericson and the class raised eyebrows and stared. “I’VE JUST BECOME THE FATHER OF A BABY GIRL, 7 POUNDS. •_! OUNCES,” the late-eomer explained. “YOU ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE A QUIZ, ARE YOU?” And he took his seat. After the class recovered its poise, the professor continued with Chaucer. The student was Roy Gibson, 19-year-old sophomore. After class, Dr. Ericson offered proper con gratulations. From All Sides By MILDRED WILSON College girls may have suave, smooth sophistication but they ain't got no grammar. This was the conclusion reached recently by the director of a prominent eastern career institute which trains coeds for secretarial and executive positions in business and professions. Average American girls have difficulty with spelling, "use the comma only for decoration,” and usually pick the wrong word when it comes to deciding between "who” or "whom, the report shows. Lising oth'T findings, how* ever, the institute declared Miss America to be untroubled by frequent blushing, depressive cy or o.i»....^-. —The Daily Californian. I Don't My parents told me not to smoke. I DON'T. Or listen to a naughty joke. I DON'T. They told me that 1 must not wink At pretty girls or even think about intoxicating drink. I DON'T. To dance or flirt is very wrong. 1 DON'T. 1 kiss no girls, not even one, I do not know how it is done, You wouldn't tluuk 1 have much fun. I DON'T. —The Lantern iFortlandt * * * Harvard is still being incon venienced by the visits of their snooper man who specializes in such tricks as reversing the po sitions of books in the. libraries of the various houses, so that the titles of the volumes are turned to the. wall. His latest, prank was to padlock a dozen and a half students in the li brary of Lowell house. — lie Harvard Crrcrson'. The Passing Parade By HUMBERT SEESALL Of course there’s always someone who knows all about everything—but for those who don’t, we’ll spike a bunch of rumors with this statement; the Passing Parade is formulat ed from semi-weekly reports of several (five to be exact) stooge-ents, and is edited and composed by a sixth—so if your favorite guy or gal is snubbed, sluffed, etc.—I didn’t done it! Start out with a bit of clean c u t circumstantial evidence —seen through a window—DON SWfNK and fellow boarders chasing a girl around the front room of ye old boarding house —must have been the land lady s dotter ... Why does LOIS GELLAR call CHARLIE HAENER “Pumkins?” . . . . Hear tell things aren’t so smooth right now with Theta ELLIE EVANS and KENNY BOWES, Chi Psi . . . AL HUNT, Phi Delt, is again wearing his pin, returned by Gammafi MIKE DANIELS ... It seems the ATOs are holding their own in the pifi house this term, but are having pretty stiff com petition from the Phi Delts. . . Word from the South has it that EVANS SMITH, down home boy friend of Alpha Phi JANE TENANT, has a three year movie contract—and to think—she knew him when . . . Three Oregon State queens visit the campus Monday eve ning—LUCILLE CECIL, KAY SEABERG, and JEAN PETER SON—and one of them is an official queen — KAY SEBERG was queen of the Junior Prom back a coupla weeks . . . Tri angles aren’t so rare—but here’s a quadrangle that’s a bit dif ferent. Sigma Chi HANK MIL LER asks DG PEGGY KEMP to the SX house dance, and Peggy turns around and asks still another Theta Chi, BILL BERGTHOLDT, to the DG house dance—amoozin but con foozin! From way down Chi Psi way, we hear that JOHNNY GLEA SON showed the Portland girl a mighty fine time Saturday International Side Show By RIDGELY CUMMINGS There was quite a bit doing both at home and abroad yester day. The wobbly defenses of Be nito Mussolini’s African empire were quivering under British blows on five fronts while in London Anthony Eden, who is foreign secretary now in place of Lord Halifax, told the house of commons that Britain rec ognizes Haile Selassie as the rightful ruler of Eethiopia. Britain will help the bearded conquering lion of Judah in “re establishing an independent Ethiopia,” Eden said. This announcement nullifies and repudiates the British sell out of Ethiopia in November, 1938 when an Anglo-Italian agreement was signed recog nizing King Victor Emmanuel as the Emperor of Ethiopia. night. EMMA VERDURMEN had her picture displayed in Col lege Bazaar, FRANK HUGHES, Hollywood producer sees it, and writes asking EMMA for more pictures — HUMBERT unani mously agrees that aforemen tioned Miss Verdurmen looks just like an angel anyway. Nothin’ from the law school today—I'm afraid that opera tor five in the law school gol discovered and got abducted'— or a reasonable facsimile . . . PAUL BOCCI and GENE CEC CHINI perennially investing their hard earned finances in marble boards—and perennially losing. Have you been nicked for a donation to buy ATO's RedDog a license yet? Seen Sunday — BETA BOB CHESSMAN, who is a corporal in the guards now, with Hen dricks engage-ee DOROTHY PYTHELA . . . Got a laugh outa all of the OAC lads over for the informal who were train ing for the Whiskerino—several bushy crops seen — one of them hovering over NANCY RIESCH. Congrats to RUSS HUDSON and BJ BIGGS—for two things: (1) Being elected Joe College and Betty Coed (2) Winning an honest elec tion. JOHN CAVANAGH and MRS. MACDUFF supervised the ballot counting—can you im agine a more honest election than that?—G'by all. Do You Kuoid? that — Eugene and University of Oregon writers have attained distinguished recognition in the literary world. that — NINA FEDOROVA of Eugene was awarded the Atlantic $10,000 prize for her novel THE FAMILY . that — FRANKLIN WALKER of the English fac ulty of the University won the GOLD MED AL' award of the Commonwealth Club of California for his scholarly work, SAN FRANCISCO'S LITERARY FRONTIER. that — a new novel by EDISON MARSHALL, Uni versity alumnus, is the Literary Guild selec tion for March. that — CUT FROM MULGA, a volume of poems by JERRY MOLL of our. English faculty was chosen by the Commonwealth Literary Com mittee of Australia for miblication by the University of Melbourne as their book of the year. there arc a lot of other good books by Uni versity of Oregon writers such as: HENRY D. SHELDON S, History of the University of Oregon. NANCY WILSON ROSS’, Take the Light ning. • GEORGE TURNBULL’S, History of Oregon Newspapers. GEORGE HOPKINS', Piano Playing for Fun. W. R. B. WILCOX S, The Curse of Modern Taxation. that — STAGE COACH and UNION PACIFIC, pop ular films, were based on novels by ERNEST HAYCOX, cx-editor of the Emerald. that — all these books and practically any book in print in America or England may be ob tained from the— Unit), 'CO-OP’ Store It seems a long time since May of 1936 when the news reels showed Haile Selassie walking up a ship’s gangplank, fleeing his country, followed by a pot of paraphernalia and duf fle. I remember I was very in dignant over what my liberal friends called the “Hoare-Laval sell-out,” although I don’t re member the exact terms now. Laval Still Busy It HAS BEEN a long time, come to think of it . . . nearly five years. And Pierre Laval is still busy selling out. This time it is his own country, to Hitler. There has been a crisis in France for the last 51 days, ever since 84-year-old Marshall Pe tain bounced' Laval out of his cabinet. Laval went to Paris and got Nazi backing. Germany is apparently trying to get him reinstated in the Vichy govern ment. Yesterday Petain said “noth ing doing.’’ The old marshall is in a good bargaining position for he has a French fleet of 100 or more warships and a big colonial empire which so far he has kept from German control. Flandin Not Much Better The fellow Petain put in La val's place is named Pierre Etienne Flandin and judging from reports he is not much better than Laval. According to an article I read a month or so ago by a refugee newspaper man whose name escapes me at the moment but who knows both Flandin and Laval, it looks like Hitler is playing both ends against the middle, or, more succinctly, two appeasers against Petain. Students who have not taken preliminary or final examina tions in fall term CAA should report to the civilian pilot train ing office in 314 Fenton immedi ately, Oregon W Emehald Wednesday Advertising Staff: Jim Thayer, Wed. Adv. Mgr. Ron Alpaugh Phil Burco Chuck Woodfield Copy Desk Staff: Ray Schrick, city editor Bill Hilton, assistant Betty Jane Biggs Lois Hulser Rylla Hatton Bob Frazier Night Staff: Herb Penny, night editor Frances Oliver Betsy Hanchett Movies Announced Motion pictures on skiing at Timberline lodge will be shown at a special meeting of the Ski club tomorrow night at 7:30 in 101 physical education, Neil Farnham, president, announced today. Regular meeting of the club will be next week, when arrangements will be made for another trip to Hoodoo bowl, he said. NEW STYLES Mojud Hosiery Price .79 and ! .00 3-thread and 4-thread Lovely Shades at 1004 Will. St. Phone 633 *5 Oregon H' Emerald Classified Ads Phone 3300—354 READER ADS Ten words minimum accepted. First insertion 2c per word. Subsequent insertions lc per word. DISPLAY ADS Flat rate 37c column inch. 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