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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1941)
Oregon W Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald, published naiiy during the college year except Sundays, MonUU>b( liuuud>s, anU anal cXallUtiaLiViii pci iuas Uj t**c /laWCWiCU oiUUciius, Ulilvcsasiy of Oregon. Subscription rates: Si.25 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered as second class matter at the postofiice, Eugene, Oregon. Represented (or national advertising by NATIONAL ADVEK 1 ibiNG SERV ICE, INC., college publishers’ representative, •120 Madison Ave., New York Chicago— Bos ton -Los Angeles— ban Francisco—Portland and Seattle. LYLE M. NELSON, Editor JAMES W. FROST, Uusiness Manager ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Hal Olney, Helen Atigell I'immie Leonard, Managing Editor Fred May, Advertising Manager Kent Stitzer, News Editor Bob Rogers, National Advertising Mgr. Editorial and Business Offices located on ground floor of Journalism building. Phones 3300 Extension. 382 Editor; 3a3 News Olhce; 359 Sports Ofhce; and 354 Business Offices. Editorial Board: Roy Vernstrom, Pat Erickson, Helen Angell, Harold Olney, Kent Stitzer, 'immie Eeonard, and Professor George Turnbull, adviser._ UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Anita Backfcerg, Classified Advertising Bill VVallan, Circulation Manager Manager Emerson Page, Promotion Director Ron Alpaugo, Layout Production Man aB(I Eileen Millard. Office Manager Fat Erickson, Women’s Editor Bob Elavelle, Co-Sports Editor Ken Christianson, Co-Sports Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Kay Schrick, Ass’t Manag ing Editor Hetty Jane Higgs, Ass’t 4\ews Editor Wes Sullivan, Ass’t News Editor Corrine Wignes, Executive Secretary Mildred Wilson, Exchange Editor The Racer’s Paradise 'TVRAFFIC conditions on Thirteenth street have come in for more editorial comment the last few years than perhaps any other subject around the University. Demands for better regulation of traffic on the campus “highway” have been numerous, particularly after an accident almost ap proaching a fatality has occurred. The nearest to action that has been accomplished are the stop signs at either end which were put up by the city a few years ago. These signs were supposedly to force the traffic to come to a stop before entering tin; campus and it was as sumed that traffic going through would be slowed down. The signs have served their purpose to some degree, but be cause of lack of enforcement have lately become almost negligible in effect. Many of the Thirteenth street racers— autos, trucks, tractors, and wheelbarrows—don’t even stop at the two signs, or stopping, hit the gas so hard again that they obtain a speed that would put Sir Malcolm Campbell to shame. m # * TyjANY officials have a passive attitude towards doing any thing about Thirteenth street. They agree that some thing should be done, but are content to wait until the day when the street will be entirely cut off as the result of the new highway project. When that happens something can be done about the Thirteenth street traffic, but until then we can only hope that no serious accident occurs. Traffic doesn’t wait, however, and the need of some im mediate action is apparent. The signs were a good idea, but without enforcement they are not serving their purpose. If a really serious accident is to be prevented someone must take action to enforce these regulations. Otherwise Thir teenth street will continue to be a racer's paradise. Money Markets and the Union |-)K. C. D. BRYNF was encouraging in his statement Mon day that “the student union bill is progressing in the state legislature much faster than any of us had expected.” Much as any live-wire University undergraduate looks for its speedy passage, one should hope the bill will be legally well constructed so the attorney general will not have to check its movement, thereby forcing it through a first read ing once again. Obviously, the speed with which the bill came into being and flew from the joint ways and means committee to the senate hopper has minimized possibility of authoritative judgments on its merits, and allowed for nothing more than popular speculations. Known factors are these: the present bill will allow a $250,000 bond issue based on a 25-year re tirement program, and a maximum interest rate of four per cent. Known also is Oregon's sound ammortization scheme, which has been explained before. • • * * J^OW speculation enters. Today the public money markets are not overrun with sound investment possibilities, yet money is amply available for such sound proposals. Perhaps the bill took its present shape with this money market factor generally recognized. It is possible, therefore, that the bonds may be disposed with an interest rate as low as I1 '■< per cent. It is possible another source of supply will be tapped with the state having accumulated funds awaiting investment in sound Oregon institutions. The student union project is ripe for such plucking. The Salem government may lend such funds at approximately d per cent. Again, it is not gross speculation to assume the state will provide $'2’>0,000, taking such it loan as a mortgage. At present all plans that may be made on financial pro grams might as well be forgotten. First, the bill must be passed. Then the state hoard of higher education may pre sent its scheme. .Meanwhile, the 20-year-old ease rests. The jury-like legislature must reader its verdict. —R.N.V. Night Out TLJEADS of houses tightened their belts last week, put on a stern frown, and proceeded to tell Oregon coeds that, they have been abusing the privilege of "one night out a term” . . . and tinished up by giving explicit directions cm the very conventional qualities of such a privilege. A thousand or so panicky coeds got the announcement twisted up, deciding it meant that there would he absolutely no “nights out from now on. And they let out a simultan eous cry of protest as harassed house presidents tried to figure the rule out for themselves. To the defense of the announcement yesterday came Dean of Women Ilazel 1'. Sehweting and Heads of Houses Presi dent Barbara Pierce. They declare that it isn't any change of University policy, but only stricter enforcement of existing regulations. The privilege of spending not more than one night a term outside one s living organization is extended to girls with the idea of letting them occasionally get away from the hectic life of group living . . . not so that they may stay out ofter hours in Eugene public places, they declared. Bays D.eau Bcliwermg: “The request for better enforce C- s, -V -det-ti tl Approximately 97 % OF THE COLLEGE PRES IDENTS HAVE COME FROM TWO PROFESSION S' TEACHING AND MINISTRY/ A Hhe youngest COLLEGE STUDENT WAS'll YEARS OLD/ ' . m r*.b A GUM CHEWING CONTEST HELD AT DEPAUW UNIVERSITY WAS WON BY A STUDENT WHO CHEWED 100 STICKS OF GUM AT ONCE/ For two full YEARS, 1917-1918, NOT A VIRGINIA POLY PLAYER WAS EJECTED FROM AMY SAME FOR PERSONAL FOUL / who did not approve of girls spending nights outside of their houses without ‘coining in’ regulation. # # # fed that better enforcement is necessary because girls have been abusing the privilege, and have stayed out after regular University closing hours. Tin; whole idea behind permitting ‘nights out' is to provide a chance for rest and regular (dosing hours of the campus are to be, followed when coeds stay with friends.” Says Heads of Houses President Pierce: ‘‘We are not tak ing away the right of a girl in a living organization to spend a night with a town girl once a term. Hut we do intend to strictly forbid future abuse of the privilege. Girls must bo in by 12:15 when they visit these friends.” Permission to stay out, according to the 1940 edition of University Regulations Affecting Student Life, is ‘‘permitted only for exceptional eases and must be secured in advance from the head resident or housemother. This permission may be granted only once a term. Heads of houses took no legislative action. Each house president, backed by her living organization, merely pledged herself to fuller cooperation with University regulations in keeping down abuse of the ‘‘night out” privilege. —II.A. In the Editor's Mail To the Editor: Besides being' amused by the gold-fish-swallowing craze that was popular in American col leges and universities upwards of two years ago, I am also in terested in it because of the tearing it had on my somewhat peculiar hobby, collecting snap shots of people who have done something which, while not en t ■ tling them to inclusion in the Hall of Fame, is rather out of the ordinary. Goldfish swallow ing. it seems to me, belongs in that class. At the time of the craze in question, though considerable space was given to the succes n ve record's set by the men, the performances of the ladies were almost ignored. In all the pe i iodieals I saw, it was merely stated that Miss Marie Hansen of the University of Missouri held the ladies’ national gold fish-swallowing title with one lone goldfish to her credit, and that Miss Marion Salisbury of the University of Oregon held the ladies' national miscellan eous-swallowing title. What is Miss Salisbury’s present ad dress? Was her record ever broken, and, if so, what is ihe name, address, and record of the present title holder, together with the names, and addresses and records of the two or three nearest runners-up? Also, if you have the information, will you give me the same data concern ing the ladies’ national goldfish swallowing championship? If you are too busy to answer these questions yourself, you might delegate the task to one of your sub-editors — perhaps the sports editor, provided gold fish swallowing or miscellan eous swallowing can properly be said to come under the head ing of sports. At any rate, I should very much appreciate an answer, and I am enclosing sta tionery and a stamped, self-ad dressed envelope for that pur pose. I am twenty years old, in valid the result of an accident, and quite interested in my rather unusual but not-too strenuous hobby, Yours, very truly, Eugene Murray. • (Editor's note: A very inter esting letter. Can anyone sup ply Mr. Murray with the infor mation which he desires? Any replies can be addressed to: Mr. Eugene M urray, Hartsville, Hartsville, Prince Edward Is land, Canada or to the Emer ald.) From All Sides Exchange l>y Mildred Wilson The Los Angeles Collegian thinks progress has gone a bit too far. Driving into one of these super super service, sta tions, a motorist was waited on by two attendants who polished his windshield, checked his tires, filled lus radiator, etc., etc. He was very pleased with all the attention. Three minutes later, lie had to come back to got some gas. .... —Oregon State Barometer. V freshman coed at the Uni versity of New Mexico recent ly went to chemistry laboratory in a deep blue dress During the performance of an experiment that called for the generation of hydrogen chloride, the gas that changes the color of litmus paper from blue to red, the coed's dress turned a deep Ver million. The frantic student poured out her woes to her in structor who advised her to ap ply ammonia to the dress, t he did. and it returned to its orig inal shade. "Have your ha by rocked by a Harvard man," seems to be the slogan of a new service inaug urated by the Harvard student eemployment office. Now Cam bridge mothers can leave little Junior to the tender care of Cantab nursemaids. Workers in the baby-tending service, past masters at the art of diaper changing, have already watched cvr a hundred little cherubs. Vale Daily News. Two unusual items were found in the column "Keep the Change" m the paper from the University of Utah. Imagine the plight of the Uni versity of Michigan where the only key to the lost and found office was lost. A university professor from Australia traveled 12,000 mile.-. to attend the Umpire Universi ties congress at London only to find that he was a year ahead ct time! The misunderstanding was caused by a typist's error. The Passing Parade By HUMBERT SEESALL The five operatives who get most of the stuff for this eolm are getting rather puckered un der the eyebrows ’cause a njere figurehead, LB by name, is get ting the “credit” (??) for this bit of semi-weekly babbling. It seems that LB is merely the Yard Bird in this case, editing and compiling the donated ma terial, and doesn’t really give a hoot who knows it. If you want to spend an interesting after noon sometime, find out who the operatives are. As usual, right up to date with the news that blossomed last week—JAN REIG, KKG, now has Senior Class Prexy BOB KEEN'S SAE pin. (well, anyhow, we beat TOMMY WRIGHT to this “scoop"), following: Incidentally TOMMY, NORMA BAKER is an Alpha Gam, not an ADPi. Hear that No. 1 woman hater on the campus, ATO DUDLEY WALTON, is trying to throw off the measles to keep a date with Pifi ALICE GREGORY Friday night, after missing de hart hoppe . .. Hearalso that the SAE serenade Saturday night was really good—leaving many a feminine heart a twitter, etc. And then there were the Phi Delts, who thought the Pi Phis might get cold so they built a bonfire in the backyard—and were they poitoibed when they got waterbaggcd! RUTH HARTLEY, ADPi, blooms out with FRED CARL SON'S Fiji parallellogram, which should keep her out of mischief for a while . . . Seen together lots are Gammafi JEAN WEBER and one of the “Hanging” Taus, BILL FU GIT . . . SHIRLEY STEELE, Alpha Chi, casting a long ing glance toward Portland ... A coupla new house prexies are Fidelt AL HUNT, and Pi Phi MARGE DE BOLT—more to come soon . . . The Pi Kaps have an en masse movement to church Sunday—a good idea for a, few more fraternities to adopt. Red-haired PATTY LYNCH, Gammafi, eggsepts Phi Psi JIM BENNETT'S pin — sur prised, MERLE ? I'll leave the triangles to TOMMY WRIGHT and concen trate on the quadrangles— they're more interesting—and here's a honey . . . Two gamma fis sent Beta BILL LYONS a singing valentine signed “FRUITS," and then they start debating about whose property Bill is—in the meantime, a third Gammafi phones up Bill and asks him to the house dance . . . we’re not mentioning the girls’ names, of course, but if you insist, the first two arc BETTY KINCAID and BILLIE SHAW and the gal that pulled the Revere is BETTY PATTER SON. Attention Girls: We have just, learned that the best way to get a date with Roy “Piggcr" Vernstrom is to invite him out to dinner. KEN CHRISTIANSON, Em erald sports editor, comes back from the Heart Hop with his face a very bright crimson and he wasn't blushing! What bright colors these Tri-Delts wear, and I don't mean dresses . . . DAVE ENGLAND, Packard driving Sigma Nu, is seen squir ing the new Pifi proxy, MARGE DE BOLT about Dave has his pin planted in Cal, and MARGE, is wearing SN DON KIRK PATRICK'S white star, so it's all a platonic deal uv course . . . HUMBERT is very happy the second prediction that he ever ventured to print came true exactly two days after its pub lication, when MILO GOSS broke down and took BILL CARROLL'S OAC ATO pin as Tommy told ya about yesterday. Some more OAC piggers are Theta Chi RAY GAULKE and Canarder DON VERNIER . . . (Plug) The flying students mostly have their license now, and invite the public to airplane rides en masse—for a nominal consideration . . All licensees have a full 35 hours to their credit and can fly a cub inside out, if you want them to. (un plug). BILL KENDALL'S wander ing ATO pin from Kilo Tech comes to rest. Another romance, blossoming around the Emer ald shack (for the last six months) is EMERSON PAGE and LOIS (.they wont let us print the expression ' Hot Lips"i HULSER. Ea-f for r.o International Side Show By RIDGELY CUMMINGS The other day Turkey and Bulgaria signed a non-aggreg sion pact and since then the diplomats, commentators, and Cummings prophets have been working overtime. The poor corre spondents are very busy quot ing “authorita t i v e sources,” “res ponsible sources,” “us ual 1 y reliable sources,” etc. uist oi me developments, which are mostly diplomatic, seems to be that the Turkcy Bulgaria pact means that the Turks will not march through Bulgaria to attack the Germans in case they invade Bulgaria. The Nazis are reported infil trating into the little Balkan country which borders on Greece, and many more Nazis are said to be concentrated on the Rumanian border, ready to march in. Nazis at the Helm It looks like the Nazis, play ing power politics with Russia's silent consent, are in the driv ing seat at the moment and may try to save Italy's face by forc ing the Greeks to make peace with Mussolini. II Duce’s attempted drive through Albania into Hellas has backfired badly, but it is doubt ful if the brave Greeks could withstand a German drive launched from the Bulgarian border toward Salonika, and the Nazi threat of this drive may force the Greeks into peace with Italy, particularly if the terms are at all “honorable.” The far east was a scene for alarums and excursions, with the Japanese beating their breasts and passionately declar ing their desire for peace while Great Britain unloaded trans ports full of Australian troops at Singapore. Heavy Drive Noted Just how many “Aussies” landed to defend the rifch Ma layan empire was not announced but a United Press correspond ent said he saw "many thous ands,” including “many mech anized units.” The diplomats, including our own silent state department, aren't saying why they are so worried about the Orient, but my own personal guess is that it is closely connected with the Russian-Japanese conversations that are now going on. If Stalin Camera Fans! Get Ready for Spring Shooting The snapshots you take of your college highlights today will provide you with an aeeurate visual reeord to remember them by, tomorrow. wtftiiuic'i Register-Guard Bldg. MEN MILITARY SHOES HAVE JUST ARRIVED FLORSHE1M MILITARY STYLES $10.00 Crosby Square MILITARY STYLES $6.95 & $7.50 HURRY! Only a small shipment buries the hatchet with, instead of in, Japan then all the Nip ponese will have to worry about is China. If the undeclared war with China can be ‘'liquidated" then the Japanese might get tough, but otherwise it is unlikely they will participate in the spring push that the Axis is expected to launch soon. U.S. Battling, Too At home, the battle over the lcnd-lease bill continued to be fought in congress, with Sena tors Nye, Wheeler, Vandenburg, and Clark all striking valiant blows against it; but was Mr. Roosevelt worried ? Not him. The president is already op erating on the basis of a fait accompli. Yesterday he appoint ed Averill Harriman, a New York financier, as HIS repre sentative in London, to expedite the lend-lease program. Harri man's duty, Roosevelt said, will be to keep the British apprised of the production situation in the U.S. and keep this country advised of Britain’s needs. He Decided It’s all very jolly for Mr. Roosevelt. He also has started agriculture department officials making a survey to determine what food supplies could be sent abroad in the event HE decided to make the United States the “larder" as well as the “arsenal" of democracies. Nye said yesterday that Bri tain's financial resources are not nearing exhaustion and Held Over! “THIS THING CALLED LOVE” with Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas Oregon W Emerald Wednesday Advertising Staff: Jim Thayer, Wed. Adv. Mgr. 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