Oregon S Emerald
The Oregon Daily Emerald, published dniiy during the college year except Sundays,
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of Oregon. Subscription rates: $1.25 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered as second
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JAMES W. FROST, Business Manager
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[immie Leonard, Managing Editor
Kent Stjtzer, News Editor
Fred May, Advertising Manager
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Editorial Board: Roy Vernstrom, Pat Erickson, Helen Angel], Harold Olney, Kent
Stitzer, Timmie Leonard, and Professor George Turnbull, adviser.
UPPER BUSINESS STAFF
Anita Kackberg, Classified Advertising
Manager
Ron Alpaugh, Layout Production Man
ager
Bill wanan, L-iicuiation Manager
Emerson Page, Promotion Director
Eileen Millard. Office Manager
Pat Erickson, Women’s
Editor
Bob Flavelle, Co-Sports
Editor
Ken Christianson, Co-Sports
Editor
UPPER NEWS STAFF
Kay Schrick, Ass’t Manag
ing Editor
Betty Jane Biggs, Ass’t
News Editor
Wes Sullivan, Ass’t News
Corrine Wignes, Executive
Secretary
Mildred Wilson, Exchange
Editor
A Case for the Dogs
'JpiIE other day when a journalism student saw a do" with
forepaws upon a fountain, earnestly lapping up the
clear McKenzie water (by courtesy of the Eugene water
hoard) which spilled from the faucet, he hit an all-time high
for editorial expression.
The smoke had barely been whisked away by one of Ore
gon’s Chinook winds when reverberations from other sections
of the campus began to be heard. From the athletic hangout
in McArthur court to the administrative dwellings in John
son came pointed thrusts at man’s best friend.
In the face of these threats many of the dog lovers began
to wonder if man had forgotten his friend. A few horses
around Eugene (there are more 40 miles away) began to
raise their eyebrows in expectation of winning back tin;
coveted number one spot on the list of man’s animal friends.
rJ''HE outside world, by now thoroughly interested, queried
“What goes on here?’’ Up in the legislature the house
of representatives caught the spirit and spent hours in debate
of a bill to make the dog’s owner liable if the dog took even
one bite out of a visitor’s trousers. After hearing a great
deal of testimony and after careful deliberation they finally
voted to let the dog have his one bite.
lint on the campus the tumult continued. In the face of
this grave problem a wise and judicious law school student
came through with a two-fold program. (1) Make the dog
stand in line and wait his turn at the fountain. (2) Educate
the dog to keep his nose off the faucet. A few individuals
without his vision and courage, however, turned down the
proposal as “impractical.”
pROM there the case went to the ASUO where Prexy Tiger
Payne appointed a committee to investigate and report.
The members of the committee spend hours dodging lobby
ists, more time in discussion and finally dissolved without
reaching a solution. .
At present no workable solution has been proposed which
is acceptable both to the dogs and to the students. The future
is uncertain.
Quite seriously, however, the problem of what to do about
the dogs is becoming important. The students and the ad
ministration won’t stand very long for having the dogs drink
from the fountains from which students drink. If dog-owners
aren’t willing to do something about it, someone will; and
when they do it is likely to be in the form of drastic restric
tions upon dogs on the campus.
rJ'\llF AWS reform of political alignments cannot be truth
fully termed a complete success. Too many people had
pledged their votes before the assembly convened on tho
condition; “ 11 vote for you if you’re up if you'll vote for
mo if I’m up.” But thus works human nature. It was not
the fault of the nominating committee that initiated the
reform; for to them goes credit for selection of probably
the most representative group of truly outstanding University
women that they could have chosen for coed offices.
Few offered any criticism of the list of girls they presented
for new officers of AWS, YWCA, and WAA at yesterday
morning’s assembly. For few believed that there were many
other really outstanding women on the campus interested
in running.
Introduction of the candidates was scarcely necessary, for
each of them has made herself so well known on the campus
—or at least in her special field of endeavor—that her record
of activities and experience speaks for itself.
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\V^H0LEHI5ART1,]1) approval of the candidates presented
was voiced by the coeds present, when they exercised
their privilege of nomination from the floor only five times
in the process of finishing off the choice of candidates for
the three organizations. That is a record that the candidate
choosing councils of each of the groups may well be proud of.
Critics ma\ scoff at the women's idealistic attempt to take
the politics out of polities: losers may rightfully feel sorry,
knowing that they were capable: winners may cheer and
declare that their candidate was best of the field; there may
be broken heart, and crushed ambitions But there can be
no denying that the work of the nominating committees of
the Associated Women Students, the YWCA, and the W A A
in judiciously choosing a cross-section of the most outstand
ing women on the campus to vie fur the positions was well
done.
Those senior women who made the nominations could lm\e
settled down in their seat for a well-earned rest before the
ballots were counted, knowing that whoever gut the honors
could handle the job with proven ability. Their selections
were “tope.’ —li.A
Cotton for Stockings
J^OT so long ago Mrs. Roosevelt reminded American wo
men that soon they must “start tightening their belts’’
and get ready to forego a few luxuries in the name of
national defense.
Mrs. Roosevelt was not simply trying to make the feminine
element feel included. It becomes increasingly apparent that
the foot that rocks the cradle can do two jobs at once—the
alternate one being to help alleviate the country’s cotton
surplus by wearing it. A cotton stocking vogue is getting
under way.
Last dune Will Clayton, then, as now, classified as the
world’s No. 1 cotton broker, told tin; Cotton Research Con
gress that the II. tt. cotton situation was going.to be grave.
He pointed out that three fourths of the world’s elothihg
had formerly been made from cotton out of a twelve and a
half million bale world production. "War was then cutting
world consumption down to five million bales, and it looked
doubtful if lhe (J. H. could sell more than two or two and
a half million bales of her five million bales outside of this
country.
rJ~'IIEN, as now, he wanted the government to handle
foreign markets gently, but encourage sales of our
product. Recently he told an Augusta cotton council that
stimulation of foreign cotton production by government
price pegging would he hard oji the ten million Americans
who depend on cotton for a living.
Why don’t we try using our own extra cotton? A two
and a half million bale surplus “ain’t hay.”
Schiaparelli has appeared at her lectures in white cotton
stockings. Life magazine prominently featured colored cot
ton hose recently. These moves were attempts to encourage
American women to use cotton from the faddishness of the
idea, even though they still prefer silk and don't object to
nylon. But if our silk supply is cut off entirely or diverted
to military use, and nylon production is inadequate, which
it now evidently is, cotton stockings and other items of
apparel will become imperative.
Tighten your belts, ladies, and ask the clerk for cotton.
Sacrificing the appearance of a slim ankle or so will prob
ably be one of the smaller things you’ll have to do.—F.E.
What Other Editors Think
Dear Friend:
It is difficult to talk to a young man about his career
and about the preparation he should make to fit into a
glorious life of usefulness and successful achievement, while
at the same time some draft board is placing his name in
the list of those to be called for war and a radio announcer
is commenting on the fact that terrific and crucial battles
are in progress. It is difficult to instruct a young man con
cerning the arts and skills of peace time living, when every
news story suggests that there is no peace. It is diffcult to
convince a young man that lie has a pleasant and profitable
life ahead of him in business, the professions, or in industry
when lie knows that soon he may lie one identified by number
only in some army camp.
Many are ready to give up the effort with the words,
“What’s the use?” Many feel that the lamps of civilization
are going out and that all our efforts are in vain. It is logical
that this be so but it is not logical that all of us should
follow such pessimistic ones. While there are many who are
always quick victims of defeatism, there are many others
who ivill never give up confidence that we shall soon emerge
from this terrible chaotic world condition with new and better
social and spiritual idealism.
Yes, it is difficult to talk to a young man, who knows
that his number is coming up, about the techniques of a
normal program; but regardless of the difficulty, it is the
most important task of the teacher. Vicious, power-crazed
persons will not always have control of the achievements in
science to use in systematic devastation. Soon, even this
wild storm will pass and men can again apply themselves to
the myriad tasks of a free industrious people.
Lot us not despair. Let us teach with greater fervor than
wo have ever taught before so that, regardless of the wastage,
there may be immediate reorganization.
There is a number coining up but there is also a man
coming up. Destruction is interested in the number—con
struction is interested in the man. Let us bet on the man
rather than on the number.
Very truly,
RAYMOND K. MANCHESTER,
Dean of Men, Kent State Lniversity, Ohio
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ON THE MILLRACE
The
Passing
Parade
By HUMBERT SEESALL
Spring in February—and al
ready the Phi Delts and Kappas
are engaging in their daily
games of softball in front of
the Kappa house. But first—
Humbert casts his sincere con
grats to three winners in a sup
posedly honest election, ELIZA
BETH STEED, president AWS;
HOPE HUGHES, president
WAA; and LOIS NORDLING,
prexy YWCA.
A poll was taken yesterday
to sound off a few of the Uni
v e r s i t y studes’ opinion of
WRIGHT’S gossup colm—
WRIGHT OR WRONG (mostly
wrong). Because of their keenly
analytical minds, five law stu
dents were quizzed concerning
their opinion of Tommy and his
colm.
Says Phi Bete BILL ROB
ERT: “He reminds me of H. B.
“GOONER’’ COLLINS.”
Says WEND ALL WYATT: “I
read Wright’s column, but
can’t say that I enjoy it.”
Another Phi Bete, PHIL
LOWRY: “He's a little trout!”
DICK PHILLIPPI: “I’d rath
er read Edgar Guest.”
JIM BUELL: “Not much to
it.”
Getting out of the law school,
PAT KELLAR, who is rejuven
ating the Rally Com at present,
says: “There’s such a thing as
being dirty, and being nasty—
Wright’s nasty!”
Enough of that—Take a hint,
Tommy, and “un-nasty-fy.”
SAE BILL HAMEL is import
inf pifi KAY ZIMMERMAN
from Portland for the Military
ball Saturday night. . . . The
combination of JEAN BURT,
Gamma Phi, and JIM CARNEY,
SN, is seen around again (or
yet) . . . Latest reports from the
music school state that Univer
sity house’s personality girl,
MARGERY WILLIAMS, is
keeping up the general morale.
. . . It looks as though Theta
JANET MORRIS is starting
her campaign for ASUO office
kinda early . . . and boy! Is BUD
McDOWELL ever a daredevil—
on skates . . . So’s the majority
of the Fiji house . . . CARL
KELLEY, SAE, is rumored to
be carrying a torch for Theta
CAROLYN CHAPMAN, the
bee-ootiful creature who is get
ting as much publicity for re
fusing a movie contract as most
stars get who accept one.
DON SEELEY, Sigmanew—
seems to be keeping a tight grip
on his pin—wonder what he's
afraid of ... So does LARRY
CELSI, who seems to be in kind
of a mess, what with breaking
dates—or trying to—or some
thing—it's all so confoozin—
still amoozin.
The Thetas pick beauty over
experience and elect newly in
itiated ANNABELLE DOW as
their president . . . The Chi
Omegas elected PAT SALIS
BURY . . . JIMMY LEONARD
is rumored to be in love with
his pictures of DG EMMA VER
DURMEN . . . HARRY BERG
THOLDT gets a date for the
Military ball with that really
beautiful night nurse at the in
International Side Show
By RLDGELY CUMMINGS
There was a food riot in Paris
last night, the United States
army is rushing planes to Ha
waii, Turkey is taking a more
belligerent attitude against Ger
many, a new senator came out
against the Roosevelt dictator
bill, and, among other develop
ments, the U.S. postoffice de
stroyed 75 tons of “propaganda
mail.”
The new postmaster general
who succeeded Farley, named
Frank C. Walker, revealed last
Cummings
night mat ms
department
seized and de
stroyed 75,000
pieced of mail
which came to
this country by
Pacific mail
routes. He said
most of the ma
terial came
from Germany
ana rcussia, wiui sraau amuums
from Japan, Italy, and England.
Failed to Register
The mail was confiscated un
der a regulation designating it
as “non-mailable” because the
sender had failed to register
with the U.S. government as a
foreign agent residing abroad.
Walker asked that congress
provide legislation “in the di
rection of requiring that all
propaganda material be prop
erly labelled . . .” and stressed
that he did not propose the es
tablishment of censorship.
Gen. George C. Marshall,
army chief of staff, told the
senate military affairs commit
tee that the U.S. “has to be
ready for anything,” hence the
transfer of latest type flying
planes to Hawaii to reinforce
air defenses in the mid-Pacific.
Winter Hits Europe
The food riot in Paris appar
ently didn’t amount to much,
but it is significant for two rea
sons. One is that news of it
came from Vichy, not from
Paris, which is under German
censorship. The other is that
apparently the occupied lands
are feeling the pinch of winter.
According to dispatches, the
hunger demonstrations broke
out in the industrial suburbs
that, under Blum's popular
front government, were known
as the “red belt.” Women hold
ing their babies high in the air
and shouting for milk descend
ed on the municipal halls of St.
Denis, Brunoy, and Sureness.
firmary, HENRIETTA HOL
COMB.
Now that the rally commit
tee has been reorganized, ev
eryone is hoping that they elim
inate the idea of having the
men standing out there trying
to make everybody elap every
time the band bursts into a
song. Use the men for promo
tion and half-time stunts, the
women for color. How about it ?
A look-in at the Side: JOE
GURLEY earnestly conversing
with a luscious-looking blonde;
PAUL BOCCI STILL playing
that marbleboard.
HUMBERT’S second prog
nostication came true last
weekend (the GOSS-OSC deal)
but his first one is still on the
fire —cummon DICK, pop the
question GEORGIALEE'S un
doubtedly expecting it by now,
and we’d beter sign off with
that for today.
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No men were mentioned in
the dispatches, although if the
Parisians are suffering from
hunger the males surely must
feel it as well as their women
folk. It was women only in the
hunger demonstration that Will
kie witnessed in London a few
weeks ago also. This indicates
to me that the spirit of chivalry
is not yet completely dead in
this cruel world of ours, in spite
of the throttling of liberty that
comes with war.
God Bless the Women
If men had demonstrated
they would probably have been
shot out of hand as spies, trait
ors, and foreign agnts. But the
women, God bless them, can still
raise Cain and get away with
it.
That reminds me—the wo
men aren’t the only ones who
can safely disrupt the coldly ef
ficient military proceedings, at
least not in Eugene.
The law school awkward
squad, led by forg-horn-voice
Hugh Collins, marched and
counter-marched in between
the serious ranks of the ROTC
yesterday afternoon as the boys
in brown were marching to a
lecture in Villard hall. In their
trim paper hats the future jur
ists blocked the sidewalks, per
formed intricate maneuvers,
and had an art school audience
rolling in the aisles.
From
All Sides
By MILDRED WILSON
Disputing the opinions ex
pressed by employers in a re
cent job survey, professors at
the University of Washington
recently said grades were first
in importance in obtaining a
job.
Grades were rated no more
than third in importance by the
executive answering the survey.
Citing facts, Dean Edgar A.
Locvv of engineering said, “Em
ployers will only interview the
top students. Out of 20 students
recently given positions in
leading corporations, only one
had grades below the Univer
sity average.”
Putting forth the statement
that many corporations will
not take men who are not in
the upper fourth of their class,
the professors added that they,
as instructors, would not rec
ommend students with poor
grades.
•—University of Washington.
•i* 4- , ♦
It was a "blitzkrieg” at the
University of Oklahoma when,
because of an error in the of
ficial class schedule, a German
class and an English class at
tempted to meet in the same
room at the same time. After
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Oregon If Emerald
Friday Advertising Staff:
Jean Adams, Manager
Helen Moore
Jeanne Routt
Night Staff:
Ray Schrick, night editor
Dick Shelton, assistant
Barbara Jean Vincent
Copy Desk Staff:
Wes Sullivan, copy editor
Elsie Jane Brownell, assist
ant
Joanne Nichols, copy reader
Veva Peterson
Herb Penny
Ruth Jordan
Chuck Woodruff
taking turns ousting eacn otn
er, the Germans won, and the
English class retired to a room
down the hall.
—The Indiana Daily Student.
* * *
Among a collection of goofy
college-slang definitions—com
piled by Les Carpenter of the
Daily Texan—were the follow
ing gems:
1. Tangerine—A loose leaf
orange.
2. Milk bottles — Objects
which, when rattled together,
convince Pa that it isn’t you
coming in at that time of morn
ing.
3. Pan handler — One who
gives facials in a beauty parlor.
4. Russian—One who sits on
nothing and dances.
5. Synonym—The word you
use when you can’t spell the
other.
6. Parking space — An unoc
cupied space about 14 feet long
next to the curb—on the other
side of the street—a great dis
tance from the campus.
7. Telephone—Something Don
Ameche invented after marry
ing Loretta Young.
8. Rain — Something that
when you take an umbrella it
doesn't.
—The Daily Texan.
Students at the University of
Rochester are experimenting
with a combined junior year
book for their coordinate col
lege.
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