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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1941)
Oregon# Ememld Tde Oregon uauy Emerald, puonsned daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, hoQdafe» and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. SuMmpnon 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 Marfison 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 OIney, Helen Angell Flmmie Leonard, Managing Editor Kent Stitaer, News Editor Fred May, Advertising Manager Boh Rogers, National Advertising Mgr. Editorial and Busings 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 Olncy, Kent Stitzer, Timmic Leonard, and Professor George Turnboll, adviser. By These Signs Ye Shall Know JN some far away place beyond the horizon the pods who control the weather got together and decided that spring should come to Oregon early this year—earlier than usual and earlier than the time prescribed for it in the academic calendar of the University. The result, although very hard on GPAs, has been a taste of spring in the waning days of winter term. While the editors of this paper refuse to go out on the limb (with the weather man) and predict that spring is here, there are many signs around 1 he University which would justify such a conclusion. The warm days .just, past have brought out many signs indicating that spring has come, or is on its way. Some of the signs that spring has come arc already present, many will come early in next term. * * * squirrels playing games on the lawn, a boy and a girl slowly weaving their way across the campus seem ingly oblivious of time and place, two professors (dialling on the steps of Friendly hall, and the Wl’A renewing its activily to make the grass grow on all parts of the campus where it was not originally sown. A canoe sliding up the millrace, students sunbathing on fraternity lawns, a radio-phonograph sharing its high fidelity (anyway loud) message with the rest of the world, a lonely couple studying in the libe, and a ear crawling up Thir teenth street at one half the usual speed (til) miles an hour). By these signs ye shall surely know that spring has come to Oregon. A Problem and Its Solution ^^ltliGON students arc1 optimistic, and they have a, rip-lit, to be. For 18 years they have worn the old thinking cap in a seemingly futile attempt to conjure up a student union hull. Now the state legislature has come to the rescue and the dream of countless Oregon students seems near material ization. Yes, the students are optimistic and justly so. lint the stu dents must never think that the task .is now finished. Much lies ahead and now is the time for the students to really get on the bandwagon and boost. rJ"'IIIS filet was realized liy one campus organizaf ion mill ' they wet, out, to do somethin;;- iihoiil it. hast, week lhe W. F. 0. Timelier chapter of Alpha Delta Sigma, men’s vertising honorary, pledged +100 to help furnish a room in the proposed structure for tin' meetings id' campus honoraries. The advertising hoys pul their finger on a major selling point, of student union propagandists. Such rooms should certainly not, be overlooked when the plans for the building are drawn. And the chapter not only put their finger on the problem but put their shoulder to the wheel and are doing something about it. The donation undoubtedly is going to work something of a hardship upon the chapter. It is extremely unlikely that the treasury of any campus honorary is so packed with green backs that the extraction of a +100 donation would not be missed. But ADS did it because they saw a problem and a solution.—11.0. When problems get knotty...pause and Toke O minute to relax, and things go smoother. Ice-cold Coca-Cola odds refreshment to relaxation. Itj delightful, whole some taste has the charm of pu r Ity. Sawhen you pause through «utthaday,makeit t/is pause that refreshes*ith ice-cold Coca-Cola. YOU TASTL ITS QUALITY t^wvi*CCii4 COSO-COLL BOtiLIKCr CO OF LVQLkL 'The Messiah1 hundred student voices raised themselves in song Sun day night to tell again the story of the greatest life ever lived on earth. A packed McArthur court sat entranced for two hours as the massed chorus and the five featured soloists traced in song the first visions of the shepherds, the birth of the Christ child, 11 is persecution on the cross. The audience rose in com mon praise as tlie vibrant “Hallelujah” chorus came forth in powerful declaration that lie lives again in the hearts of men. Not the least of the highlights of the evening was the University symphony orchestra’s interpretation of the Pas toral Symphony, which gracefully built visions of the shep herds in their fields, the quiet and peaceful world that waited in awe for the coming of their Messiah, it was the acme of loveliness . . . and charm . . . and peace. # # # AI'HERE were few in the audience who did not turn to their neiglihors at sojne point during the evening to marvel at the immense amount of work that Dean Theodore Kratt must have expended to give the chorus, the symphony, and the capable soloists that quality of precision that made for perfection in timing. For the new dean of the music school, who seemed just as naively happy about the success of the production as the lowliest alto on the back row of the 600-student chorus, had a difficult assignment. He directed both the symphony orchestra and the singers. The music school’s contribution to University cultural life brought pleasure to many, both on the campus and in the surrounding community. The custom of presenting an all school chorus in some classic performance is not new; but if accomplishments like that of Sunday night arc an example, the idea can never grow old. It was fitting, too, that Oregon should open the Lenten season with the exquisite pageantry of the “Messiah.”—11.A. In the Editor’s Mail March 4, 1941 To the Editor: When Scabbard and Blade first announced this term that applicants for membership in that organization were to be interviewed, I scouted around for information concerning its purpose, aims, and composition. Its composition in particular interested me for, being an inde pendent and a strictly non-polit ical one, unless there was at least a 50-50 chance of an in dependent being admitted, there would be no reason to learn its purpose and aims. From casual remarks over heard here and there I was giv en the impression that Scab bard and Blade was decidedly political and with a tendency toward being a “fraternity clique.” However, casual re marks and biased opinion would hardly be a fair basis upon which to condemn what may be ; an impartial, upright organiza tion. 1 decided that the proof would be in the pudding. The proof was there all right! Of the 24 pledges from the third-year military class two were independents. Now, to the best of my knowledge, at least 40 per cent of the third-year military class are independents, and I know of only one who did not make application. Less than 9 per cent are represented on the pledge list. Why did these two independents make the grade ? Perhaps they make up the small per cent considered a “necessary evil” by Scabbard and Blade to keep it from com pletely losing face with inde pendents. There may be facts,of which I am not aware, that will cast a different light on the subject, but until they are revealed the very unflattering opinion I have formed will remain unchanged, f would appreciate any informa tion on the issue that you have available, but since I wish to remain unknown (I still have hopes of some day becoming a member of Scabbard and Blade - why? T don’t know) it must be through the channels of the press. Perhaps the Scabbard and Blade chapter of U. of O. Fraternities, Inc. would be in terested in enlightening me. Sincerely yours, Cadet Sgt. “Disillusioned”. International Side Show By R IDG ELY CUMMINGS Not since the days of the NRA, the WPA, the national la bor relations board, and other innovations of the New Deal has any question so sharply split the American public as the problem of America’s role in the war. Debate over Roosevelt’s “lencl lease" bill has done much to bring the matter to a head. Al though there are many diverg ences, many shadings of opin ion, two camps have emerged: the interventionists and the iso lationists. There is always a danger of over-simplification in using sharp dichotomies, but I think it is evident by now that the essential differences in view point boil down to a philosophi cal attitude. The way I see it, one’s stand on intervention is bound to be strongly conditioned by one’s attitude to death. For generations now the Christian philosophy has aimed at convincing man that life is sacred. Not even a sparrow can fall to earth without God being aware of it, the Bible tells us. How much more important then must be the individual's life. Living in the United State.*, whore murder is the worst crime on the calendar and the front pages of the newspapers, until recently, chronicled all the gory details of any deviation from noff-violence, it is natural that the American citizen sets a high value on the mere privilege of continuing to breathe. If this is true for the prac ticing Christians, so-called, then it is even more true for those of us who have been “contamin ated” by skepticism. The philosophy of material ism is growing. It is a contra dictory phenomenon because al though on the one hand it fur nishes the ideological base for fascism and communism, on the other hand it inspires that atti tude to the dogma of immortal ity that says: “You’ve got to show me.” “There may be a life after death,” these young materialists say, “but I don’t know anything about it. I’ve never yet met any body who has come back from the beyond. Millions of people have died just since I’ve been knocking around on this planet, to say nothing of the countless swarms who have fertilized the earth in ages past. They died, and as far as I know they’re still dead." In a nutshell, the idea is that when you're dead, you're dead ip for a long, long time. It is people who believe like this that make up a good pro portion of the isolationists. They value life and hesitate to throw it away. When the ora tors shout “glory” and “nation al honor” and “duty to one's country,” they wince, because at heart they are skeptics. War, they know, is unfortu nately a game that is played for keeps. When a piece of shrap nel takes off the top of your skull at the eyebrows they know you are out of the game perma nently. When you are lying in the mud with twenty feet sep arating what used to be your arms and legs from your torso, they know no one can say mum bo-jumbo and put you together again. Knowing tms, tney want to be sure the game is worth the candle. When a middle-aged hero says “democracy” and “freedom” to them they want to be sure that what he really means is not “foreign trade” and "profits for Bethlehem Steel.” Leland Stowe, who is the mouthpiece for Colonel Frank Knox, secretary of the navy and owner of the Chicago Daily News, expressed the crux of the matter very succinctly, albeit unwittingly, in one of his recent articles. Stowe quoted the now dead dictator of Greece, Pre mier Metaxes, who furnished oratorical leadership for the Greeks in their fight against the invading Italians. Said Metaxes: “For us of the Greek orthodox faith, death is only an episode.” For the Mohammedans too, death is only an episode, and if a good Moslem dies in battle he believes that he goes straight to paradise to meet his seven wives. Unfortunately for the U.S. in terventionists, few Americans are believers in either Moham med or the Greek orthodox faith. For too many of us death is not an episode, not merely an incident along a road that stretches endlessly ahead. For us, young materialists, death is the end. So Colonel Knox and all the other interventionists up to Franklin Roosevelt himself had better take heed. When they ask us to offer our lives to up hold their theories they arc not asking for a trifle, but for ev erything. Have a care, oh masters. Your reasons even now tax our belief. CASH for second-hand WHETHER USED HERE OR NOT, ON WED. AND THURS., MARCH 12th AND 13th, THE COLLEGE BOOK CO. OF COLUMBUS, OHIO WILL HAVE A BUYER AT THE CO-OP TO PAY CASH. College Book Co,, Columbus, Ohio Be Warned! Commencement announcements should be ordered at the “CO-OP” immediately after the Spring vacation. The price is 10 cents each. All orders must be placed by April 25th to insure delivery in plenty of time for mailing before your commencement. Samples will be ou display at the Umiuersity 'CO-OP’ - PLAY CONSULT THE “CO-OP” TEXT-BOOK DEPARTMENT BEFORE YOU SELL YOUR USED BOOKS, OUR TEXT-BOOK BUYER KNOWS MORE ABOUT BOOKS TO BE USED HERE THAN ANYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD. ASK AT THE “CO-OP” FIRST. 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ASSOCIATED STUDENTS ... when he wrote “Whafs in a Name?” The Bard of Avon was right about the rose —its name is unimportant. But if he'd had anythin";to do,with naming telephone exchanges, he’d have learned a lot! Names must he easy to pronounce and transmit—must not look or sound like other exchange names —must not use the same dial finger spaces. Take Ml IF and OTIS, for example. Fine!—except they dial alike! For the first two letters of each appear in the same finger spaces ou the dial. Often hundreds of names are listed, studied, discarded before one is found that meets all requirements. Such care in every pha^e of Bell System work helps to make 5 our telephone service the world’s finest. Whvnot telephone home often ? Iona Dis tance rotes to most points ore low;;) night after / P. M, and all day Sunday.