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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1941)
The Oregon L/auy Kmeraia, pu unshed daily 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 ciaas matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Represented for 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 Angell Jimmie Laonard, Managing Editor Kent Stltaer, New* Editor Fred May, Advertising Manager Bob Rogers, National Advertising Mgr. Editorial and Business Offices located on ground floor of Journalism building. Phone* 3300 Extension: 382 Editor; 353 Mews Office; 359 Sport* Office; and 354 Busines* Office*. Editorial Board: Roy Vernstrom, Pat Erickson, Helen Angell, Harold Olney, Kent Stitxer, Hramie Leonard, and Professor George Turnbnll, adviser. UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Anita Haocoerg, iiassinea Advertising Manager Ron Alpaugh, Layout Production Man gier nin waiian, circulation Manager Emerson Page, Promotion Director Eileen Millard. Office Manager UPPER NEWS STAFF rii E.ncuun, women ■ Editor Bob Flavelle, Co-Sport* Editor Ren Christianson, Co-Sports Editor nay ouintn, i imag ing Editor Betty Janp Jiigg8, Ass't News Editor Wes Sullivan, Ass’t Newf Editor \_VJJiiir: uacvuiivc Secretary Mildred Wilson, Exchange Editor A Warning 'J'llE death of Norman Sims, University student who was fatally injured in an automobile accident during the week before winter term finals, must have been a distinct shock to every University of Oregon student. Sims was one of their group—a student who had come here for the purpose of sceuring an education. He was a senior and in another three months or so would have been graduated, would have been added as another Uni versity graduate who made his own way through school. Somehow everyone who saw or heard of the accident hoped— perhaps it was wishful thinking—that by some miracle he might live. To say that his death was unfortunate does not half cover the case. It was a fatal warning that something was wrong. <k Vi # JT is not an injury to fiis memory, but a warning to those who survive him if we remember the fatal errors which his death symbolized. Responsibility for those errors must be shared by a number of people. The most obvious was the failure to do anything about the Thirteenth street traffic problem. For years student leaders and Emerald editors have asked that something be done— that some action be taken to clear the “Campus Speedway.” Nothing ever came of the various campaigns. The traffic on Thirteenth has always been bad. Of late it has become worse with trucks, busses, and ears rolling through the campus as if Thirteenth was a boulevard. When University street was cut off from eleventh, a short time ago, the traffic on Thirteenth became worse. At present almost all traffic from cast Eugene is routed directly through the campus. Something must be done and i! cannot he done too soon. # # # 'J'lIE second warning, and perhaps even more important than the first, is for more careful driving. A little more care might have prevented thta accident, just as it might have prevented the majority of traffic fatalities throughout the United Stales. Speed limits are not set without a purpose. Most accidents can be avoided, says Secretary of State Earl Snell, and the idea that anyone is naturally a good driver because he is “quick thinking” is certainly a stepping stone to another fatality. No person is any better than the mechanics of his car and all ears have a limit. That limit, beyond which acci dents can be expected, has been scientifically set in speed laws. Hail The Tabloid WUEN the great tulip tree on “hello walk” bceomes a bevy of blossoms, we know that spring has eome to Oregon. When journalistie minds of the Emerald s editorial staff get new ideas of unusual headlines and the smaller tabloid size page, one knows that a partieular form of spring fever has hit the “shack.” Beginning with next week's papers, the Emerald will be published on the smaller tabloid forms for the duration of spring term, it was derided by tin1 editorial hoard of the daily. The tabloid size means simply a different fold in the regular siieet. The same amount of spare available in a regular size four page paper is found in the half-size eight page pub lication. • * * TMIK coming out of the first small edition will undoubtedly bring forth a great deal of criticism. Many just don't like the tabloid appearance, think it gives a student daily an appearance of radicalism that should not be the produc tion of a conservative University. Copy desk workers among the gang at the “shack” will grumble at the extra work of eight pages to make up instead of four. But those comments will be in the minority. Most students reeoguize that it has almost become traditional, after three years of the practice, to go tabloid for the last term Forward lookiug critics, with an eye to modernity, will commend' the Emerald for the new smaller size that is being used by sueh Pacemaker papers as the Minnesota Daily and the North western Daily to advantage, 'fired readers will approve of tbe freshness that comes with something “new” after two terms of regular editions. Veterans around the journalism school will recall with admiration the first tabloid editions used three years ago by Editor LeKoy Mattingly and the successful cues in succeeding springs. Undergraduates who like to “ha\e tbeir Emerald” with their eight o’clock class will appreciate the smaller, more inconspicuous size. * * * JNEOEHAI. iurvcjs of campus opinion generally present ihi idea of complete endorsement of the tabloid size for the final term of <lie sebool year. It is different and sparkling mid gives that added zest that is in tune with the more frivolous nature of the spring term whirl of acthitie*. Hail the tabled —H.A. Stairway Headaches ^^NE of the most disagreeable experiences connected with attending the University is the little matter of registra tion. Enrollment day blues are a common ailment on the Oregon campus. Last fall and winter terms it seemed that the registration system had been finally worked out so that students could manage to get through the patience-taxing event with a minimum of scratches, bruises, and worn-out tempers. Under graduates walked into McArthur court and were quickly caught in the swiftly moving procession. The wheels turned smoothly and almost before he realized it a student was registered. It was practically painless—almost. * * * JJUT with the coming of spring term everything must change, even as does the weather. A ini Monday students were forced to stand in line on a stairway and edge inch by inch forward until, finally, they could get their registration material. By that time tempers are worn to the ragged edge of nothing, innumerable shoes shines are ruined, and the stairways of McArthur court have undergone much wear and tear. The new system lacks the smooth precision of former regis tration days. Students thrashed ponderously through the hopeless maze. The confusion caused some of the students who have spent a number of years on the campus to reminisce about registration days of years gone by. When you get a good thing you should stick with it.—H.O. Parade of Opinion By Associated Collegiate Press FRATERNITIES Greek or "Barb?” What’s the difference, or is there any? Am erica’s college editors, a survey this week indicates, would like to see some changes in fraternity setups, but on the whole they recog nize fundamental benefits offered the student by the Greek-letter organizations. The University of Pittsburgh's Cliff Dweller opens the discussions with a definition of fraternity: “In American colleges, a student organization formed chiefly to promote friendship and welfare among the members.” Proceeding, the Pittsburgh publication ex presses belief that "if the fraternity is formed to comply with the above definition, there is no question as to its value. If, on the other hand, the fraternity is formed, as one advocate phrases it, to form cliques and to promote a friendly rivalry, such a fraternity is defeat ing its own purpose.” Commenting on “Rush” week at the University of Tennessee, the Orange and White hopes “that nobody’s going to be sorry or disappointed with his fraternity brothers, but we’re here to say that the cards are stacked against them.” The Orange and White’s plea is to "take the ‘rush’ out of rushing,” and it makes the point that the period called “rushing” is "far too short for the average mind-making-up capacity.” Agreement with this viewpoint is ex pressed by the Dartmouth, which declares, “fraternity rushing com bines the worst features of an Atlantic City convention ami a small town church bazaar. Anyone who joins a fraternity after he has been rushed, hot-boxed, fed beer and cider and doughnuts and warmed-over guff and exhausted from answering the same silly questions, must know something. He must know that this week of authorized nonsense is not the end of fraternity life. He may not know that six of the last seven graduating classes have voted overwhelmingly that if they had it to do over again they would not join fraternities. But even if he did know it it wouldn't matter. He will have a good time with a group he initiates himself into, regardless of Greek letters. This means nothing more than what it says: name your own poison and don't expect the joining or not joining to make or break your college career.” At Worcester Polytechnic institute, the Tech News feels that the college fraternity is indispensable "as an aid in helping the novice develop, while in college, along the lines of social intercourse." Further comment comes from the Daily Iowan: “There are those who minimize the value of fraternity life. There are others who regard fraternities as hot beds of iniquity. If fraternities cannot disprove the beliefs of the aforementioned ‘anti’ groups, they’re lying down on the job and bringing about their own eventual destruction. The ideals of fraternities arc the highest ideals one may find. BUT THOSE HIGH PRINCIPLES MUST EXTEND BEYOND RUSH WEEK. Those ideals arc year-round responsibil ities. They should be year-round assets.” Undergraduate writers are not indicting the Greek societies. They arc friendly to them. And they feel that the role of the fra trnity can be strengthened by elimination of the few "sore spots”_. shortcomings that in past years the fraternities themselves, after serious contemplation, have been the first to recognize. Exchange by Mildred Wilson The “snooper" man at Har vard university, the student who lias a mania for turning' library books about so their backs face the wall lias turned pro-Ger man and is now disturbing only French books. At a loss to explain his re curring visits to Harvard libra ries, authorities were inclined to believe that "snooper” man has enlisted the aid of about fifteen assistants. —The Harvard Crimson. Anxious to have an F, which he had received on a ten-minute quiz, erased from the mark book, an anonymous freshman recently complained to his in structor that he had prepared the wrong assignment. When asked if lie would ‘fix it tip," the favor-granting master re plied that he would do his best. Mext morning the paper was re turned to its expectant owner. Mark: F-ptus. —Yale Fatly News. Mother uses cold cream, Father uses lather; My girl uses powder— At least tUats v hat 1 3atUt.-. -•TiS V. of N Sdacitrcish. Next lime your professor asks you a question in class that you can't answer, say, "Hmm! I was just going to ask that questiou myself.” —The Silver and Gold. The world’s largest college annual recently went to press. It is the ‘Tllio” of the Univer sity of Illinois. If the pages of the book were laid side by side they would make a strip nine inches wide reaching 420 miles — the distance from Chicago to Kansas City, Missouri. The book weighs seven pounds. The Utah Chronicle. * * $ This guy's been around—or else he's just naturally bright. An Iowa State student was say ing farewell to his girl friend the other night—at the door of her sorority house. In other words lie was kissing her Suddenly ho beard a cough and looking up the steps, he saw the housemother, in the process of clearing her throat — and glaring. Quick as a. flash the fellow said: "Would you like to be the lic*t ' The housemother fle-T. —Oregon Stitc Barometer. The BAND BOX By TED HALLOCK I ■ ■■ I.. 1.1 li II Well, Oregon can at last rest easy with the knowledge that a Student Union building is as sured. Kay Kyser is going to build it with SDX acting as contractors. Translated, this lit tle item refers to the Friday nite hop which is: (1) Sponsored by the Jour nalism fraternity, Sigma Delta Chi, (2) featuring Prof. Kyser and his college of musical knowledge, (3) designed to raise Student Union funds. The prophecy about having said Un ion Bldg, in the bag is based on the results of Kay's Portland appearance last Friday nite. The Civic auditorium there was sold out solid two days before Kyser’s scheduled concert (seat ing capacity 4,500). The dance at Jantzen Beach broke all ex isting records with a crowd of some 1,600 couples. Using very simple mathemat ics, multiplying these 8,000 peo ple by a dollar a head, which was a very happy average ad mittance fee, one arrives at a sum which ain’t hay. With these figures, which no one is sure to believe, well in mind it is a safe bet that Mr. K. should draw a few odd cats down here. Best to Hit Oregon The Kyser crew is, without debate, the finest show band ever to hit this campus. Well known to all collegians are Gin ny Simms and Harry Babbitt, who warble but sweet. Novelty singers include Ish Kabibble and Sully Mason. For the real cats there are Noni Bernardi, ex Goodman alto saxist, and Roc Hillman, Jimmy Dorsey's for mer guitar ace. Real showman is Kay Kyser. He is fronting the banc! every second with as screwy a collection of gyrations as the paper hanger with hives idea. This Kay will really be a re lief after all the staid and bored leaders who delight in convey ing the “God, I am bored" feel ing to their audience. Born in Carolina, schooled with such musical notables as the late Hal Kemp, Kyser is truly a gentle man of the “old school." He is always rceptive to the words of his many fans, and gracious and hospitable to the crowds which invariably surround him. Features Eddie Shea The band presents, in concert, a repertoire of tunes that run the gamut from “Three Little Fishes" to “Perfidia." Each in strumentalist in Kyser’s ork is featured at some time during the show. Eddie Shea, drummer, takes the spotlight in an ar rangement of “Alexander’s Ragtime Band." Kyscr’s personality is dom inant thrughout the entire per formance. He carries on a con versation with anyone in the audience arriving late. He can produce a gag at any moment for any situation. As a result, there is never a planned pro gram at Kay’s concerts; too many nutty items keep popping up. (jinny Is Lovely Kyser's Kollegc Kids: Ginny Simms is really that lovely . . . Ish had to be jerked from a Turkish bath to make a broad cast on time . . . Kyser’s initial quip on entering KGW-KEX studios (to musicians) rrAre you boys all paid up at the local?” . . . Ginny and Harry Babbitt sang nianys the duet at Wash ington High for a relatively small audience (2,700 scream ing kids) . . . Kyscr had prac tically nothing to do. Sigma Nil stag dinner (Kay is a U. of N. C. brother), RKO cocktail par ty, broadcast, concert, dance. He must have changed clothes some time in between . . . Ky ser's men changed clothes twice during the concert . . . Ginny was wearing at least seventeen orchids. Occasionally one could sec her face just as plain as . . . If you knew a press agent or the president or someone you could have gotten a seat on the chandelier Friday uitc . . . X didn't. Water color paintings by two Iowa State college women were recently accepted by the Uoslyn Memorial in Omaha, blebraski. Rockefeller foundation ha ; given $25,000 for maintenance in the coining year of the teach ing and research program of tje Fr.r. erW.y of i— land. International Side Show By RIDGELY CUMMINGS It was down in old Joe’s bar room, but not on the corner by the square, that some of us were sitting the other night, drinking a hor rible green bev erage called creme d e menthe. Present were an art student, female, whose Cummings name I have promised not to mention in connection with creme de menthe; a drama student named Jean Harper, who wishes to be known as Jean Andre because he has play-writing ambitions and that is the nom de plume he is going to use; a military student named Bruce Ham mond whose vague ambitions include liquidating Adolf Hitler; and the modest conductor of this column. We started out by discussing Russia's newly benevolent atti tude to Turkey and there was speculation on whether this would stop the German drang nach osten toward the oil fields of Asia Minor and force the Nazis to turn the full force cf their drive against the British Isles. So We Wrote Poems But none of us knew the answer and after several oth er conversational topics had emerged still-born someone sug gested that we each write a poem. The results, while mostly doggerel, prove one point. That is that the war is uppermost in the minds of—well, I-was go ing to say the typical student but since the quartet may not be typical perhaps it ought to be—many students. Jean's was the shortest of the lot, and the best. Here it is; WAR We saw the things about us and we knew The world was beauteous, valiant, true. We heal’d the shouting and we wondered why That in this beauty men go forth to die. Bruce wrote one beginning “A million million years ago, there was a fascist worm, who I I The Passing Parade By HUMBERT HEESALL Jr. With the thought in mind that in the spring a young man't fancy turns to baseball and other ways of pitching “woo woo," Humbert Jr. thoughtlessly dedicated this column to those who are at present in a state of moral dilapidation. Glancing over the list of new steady go ers it is evident that the weather is inditcive to anything but studies, and the largest of all pastimes seems to be loving. At any rate in our wanderings thus far this hyar spring term we have found these bits about ’em. Pi Phi, Mary Ellen Mills takes Dave Atkinson's Beta pin. Fiji's Stan Staiger puts an end to many U. of O. lads’ dreams when ho sews Dot tip Havens up by planting his pin on the booti ful Kappa. Another Kappa doll, Virginia Janies, is wearing Nel son Hodges’ DU pin. The play boy from the ranch on the hill, Bill White, surrenders his pin to an attractive DG, Amio Thyng. “Slim’’ Winterniute, of tall fir basketball fame, has sitccumbed to the charms of Theta's Libbe Eades. The recent appearance of Carolyn Chapman’s picture in the Collegiate Digest has caused many a young man to lose his heart. Of late she has been re ceiving fan mail from many far eastern colleges. Incidentally next Saturday night will be a swell time for some of you "Twinks" to step out and meet the new Hen Hall queens at their open hbusc. By the way, the Kay Kiser deal is informal. A couple of new additions to the Oregon campus: Mary Law son, t'G, and Harold Maddrcn, DG Marge’s little brud. Translating services of Hcck ei scientific library at Centra! college. Fayette, Mo. one of the most comprehensive in the. v oi ld. bv.e ihtsentci’s yi IT countries. turned upon his trusting friends, the peaceful little germs.” It went on in this vermicular vein about how there came to be or ganized a fascist state—"It was a dreadful fate,” wrote Mr. Hammond—but hit a snag when it came to the line "There were no cliffs of Dover then,"’ and after some severe struggling for rhymes it was abandoned. She Is- a Cynic The art student, female, gave birth to a stanza about how “Some guys think life is just a bowl of cherries, but it's really not the salutary berries”—I’m quoting from memory because when I announced that I planned to print it, the stanza disappeared. 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