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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1941)
The Passing Parade By DOC HE.YRY ; I’ll start the term right and ^»riut this column under the right my policy in writing this ♦ittli gossip insert is to print •lOthing that I wouldn’t want printed about myself and items Will be printed only when there sufficient proof to substan tiate them. A couple of days of this Cali fornia liquid sunshine, makes ev eryone think of winter term, and According to the Calendar it is Apri.ng. Hope it doesn’t last too tfong because spring term is sup posedly the one -during when ev eryone, goes on picnics, goes Awimming and falls in love, (thi3 4a our meat, think of the pins doating around).— Well here are a few pins that the boys have finally let loose,— Urtic© Stevenson, ..Beta hangs the brass on Ray Jenkins, Alpha Phi; Bud Leonard, SAE, (you eat ♦is salt water taffy while in Sea Aide) gives his pin to Bee Soil uni. Alpha O. Bud had her over for ■dinner Sunday and was so ner vous he couldn’t light her cig Arette, does love affect every body that way??—■ Bill Fugit, ATO prexy, finally ffctmgs the brass cross on Jean ^Webber, Gamma Plii, so Jean leaves for California the same weekend. Figuring on settling down this term, Bill? I notice the Siberrian has a mew delivery boy in the person age of one Robin Flavelle, co sports editor of this sheet- Robin 4has the darndest ways of getting around, if he delivers as regular «U3 he has dated Ronui Theobald (Alpha Phi grad) the gals won’t <get those late deliveries in time 40or that bull session. Margot Buliier, Alpha Gam takes Ackerman's DU pin, but I understand that she also ha3 a ^pin from West Point—making a collection of them Margot? Marie Gable, Sigma Kappa ^jives back Frank Albrecht's DU 4»in, understand it had something to do with his objections to her ■Short skirts.—Jack Dallas, SAE. dias the infirmary well in hand especially Joy Trumbull, the purt -4est nurse in the infirmary, she ■«ias all of the boys singing “I don't want to get well, I’m in dove with a beautiful nurse." Lena Sehlesser, Gamma Phi, 4*ivcs back Jack Lansing’s Kap 4>a Sig pin—Best show of the ■week The Lady Eve—the gal who dtnew her apples—don’t miss it— Bob Calkins, campus politician. And Marian Marks, Theta, seem to have made up, at least they ■vere having a good time togeth er at the Kyser shindig — The SAE’s are taking good care of tEadie Yturrl, Alpha Chi and Vie Townsend is gone they escort tier everywhere. — Pat Carson, highland house, gives Bob Ken dall, Fiji, the kissoff and is seen at the Kyser dance with Clar ence Kruger, ex-prexy of Canard club,—Where does the Carkin t>oy from Salem fit in, Pat ? Betty Lou Brugnvun, Theta, takes Chan Kilburn’s Sigma Chi cross—Well, that’s enough for to day, I’ll be seeing you Thursday .—Goodbye now. Bates college is offering short (hand and typing courses, with out academic credit, to help stu dents get jobs after graduation. Dr. Lawrence M. Price, Uni versity of California, is presi dent of the American Associa tion of Teachers of German for 1941. Oregon Emerald '1 tie Oregon uaily Emerald, puuusued 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. Bntered as second class matter at the postoftice, Eugene, Oregon._ Represented tor national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., college publishers’ representative, 420 Madison Ave., New xork Chicago .Bos ton—Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle. LYLE M. NELSON, Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS JAMES W. 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Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Ray Schrick, Ass’t Manag ing Editor Betty Jane Biggs, Ass’t News Editor Wes Sullivan, Ass't News Editor Corrine Wignes, Executive Secretary Mildred Wilson, Exchange Editor More Than a Record {OFFICIAL figures on the Kay Kyser concert and dance, ^ released yesterday by the educational activities office, prove what has already been accepted as a fact—the affair broke all University records both for the number that attended and for gross receipts. Undoubtedly some of the credit must go to the people who promoted the dance, but the large crowd was mainly a tribute to Kyser and his band. Kyser had promised a great show and the “College of Musical Knowledge" lived up to it. Z YSER'S appearance went further than break records. It served to prove again that student of the University want, and will turn out for, a big-name orchestra. Every orchestra in this class which has appeared here, Whiteman, Goodman, Cros by, and Kyser, has drawn a large crowd—has made a profit for the promoters. Perhaps this has been due in some degree to the fact that the University has only scheduled one or two big orchestras a year. That is quite possible. Too many big orchestras not only would be too great a drain on student poeketbooks, but probably would take the edge off those that do come. One thing, however, is important. The students do want big orchestras; they will pay for them; and the limit has not yet been reached. Little Time for Spring C BRING term at Oregon is frolicking time so say most of the students. Ask any of the 55 football players in the spring term grid turnout, and the questioner 'will receive an emphatic “no/’ April showers- and May flowers mean long hours of football grind and bruising physical contact rather than hours spent gliding on the millrace. Under Edwin X. Atherton’s direction. Coach Tex Oliver’s turnout must also put in some 100 hours of actual work aside from football, study, classes, etc. Other athletes and students may cast envious eyes and sarcastic remarks at the gridmen fall term when they have their days of glory, but the football players are given the least acclaim of any during spring term. # # * rJ''RUE, they must put in only 00 days of running plays, mastering signals and duties, blocking, and tackling undef the conference ruling. Thirty days is a long stretch, coupled with the hours of work, study, and what not. It is easy to see why football players are seldom elected to Phi Beta Kappa, for the player has neither the time nor in clination to study after filling the wishes of Messrs. Oliver and Atherton. A football player’s row is indeed a hard one to hoe.—K.C. The Italians Sang “"Y^JHEX the coast guard came, we had no breakfast," he said, “so we drank some of our champagne and other fine wines and ate salami." Not only that, the men on the Italian motorship Leme sang as the United States coast guard came to arrest them at Port land Sunday. They sang while the United States committed an outright act of war, and their captain protested to a reporter that the American action was “inhuman.” The Leme. it seems, had been tied up at Portland since June 8, dodging a fuel bill in Guatemala on one side, and Canadian warships on the other. The idle ship was doing Italy no good. Its sailors were taking English lessons to while away their time. "When it became obvious that the United States would soon be needing all the ships she could find, the Italians received orders to put their vessel out of running order. Why should they want to give it up to us? # #= *= JT is considered unlawful under international agreement to sabotage ships in foreign harbors. Sunday the IT. S. coast guard was ordered to seize 65 other foreign vessels throughout the nation that were sabotage possibilities. This was also un lawful. And the Leme incident was only a small part of the program of international face slapping. But we had to hold our breath a bit as we see the arm of war reaching into our own back yard, our peace-loving Oregon. We hold our breath a bit as they take the 54 Italians from the Leme to jail in Portland, the prisoners singing as they go, drinking Italian wine. We 'wonder at the significance of the thing we’ve done. Did the coast guard declare war for us last Sunday?—P.E'. International Side Show By RIDGELY CUMMINGS Day Foster, program director for KORE, stopped me on the street last night to donate a hot news tip. Mussolini, he said, is reported to be buying up all the Cummings glass - bottomed boats at Catalina Island so he can review his Medit erranean fleet. It is a not il logical rumor, for Italy’s navy took an awful batter ing over the weekend. In the greatest naval engagement since tne uattie ui Jutland some 3,000 Italian offi cers and men were sent to the bottom of the Ionian sea, accord ing to British estimates. Sunk, according to British sources (there was no Italian communique on the wires last night) were three 10,000- ton cruisers, the Fiume, Pola, and Zara; and two destroyers. Proba bly sunk were Italy’s most pow erful battleship, 35,000 tons; a 6,000-ton cruiser; and another de stroyer. A Bad Week It was a bad week all around for the Italians. Here in the United States they lost 28 cargo ships, seized by the U.S. govern ment on the ground that they needed protection against sabo tage by theii own crews. At the same time that the Ital ian ships were seized the U. S. coast guard took possession of 39 Danish ships and two German ships. Twenty of the 28 Italian ships had their engines and navigation instruments so thoroughly wrecked that maritime commis sion officials said some of them constituted menaces to naviga tion in the ports in which they were docked. One of them, the motorship Leme, is docked 150 miles away in Portland. The Leme's skipper said he believed the seizure was “an act of war.” Admitting he and his crew had damaged the vessel, the skipper said “we immobilized it,” but de clined to say who ordered the sabotage. Both Germany and Italy have made formal protests against the seizure. The text was not made public last night. Conduct Justified Washington officials justified the action last night by quoting from section one, title two of the Espionage Act of 1917, which au thorizes the secretary of the treasury to regulate “the anchor age and movement of any vessel, foreign or domestic, in the terri torial waters of the U.S.” The act says he may “place guards thereon and if necessary in his opinion, in order to secure such vessels from damage or in jury or to prevent damage or in jury to any harbor or waters of the United States or to secure the observance of the rights and ob ligations of the United States, may take by and with the con sent of the President, for such purposes, full possession and con trol of such vessels.” No Contest The 39 Danish ships were not sabotaged and the Danish lega tion in Washington said last night they would not protest the seiz ure. The justice department began deportation proceedings against 875 officers and men removed from the Axis vessels. At the same time G-men said Italian crewmen who took part in wreck ing machinery will be prosecuted under the above mentioned act, which authorizes a fine of $10,000 or two years in the bucket, or both, in cases of convicted sabo teurs. The whole thing has a very serious air. It is spring now and I have a bet on that the U.S. will be actively in the war by August 4. I hope I lose, but if things keep up like this I’m afraid I’ll collect. From All Sides By MILDRED WILSON All tradition of the Harvard law schools 123 years seemed about to be broken recently when W. Barton Leach, profes sor of law, casually asked his class one morning what they would think of having women in their class. A special committee, rather disturbed, held a meeting to de bate the engrossing problem. The high point of the proceed ings came when a couple of shapely misses arose and de manded that women be allowed their “constitutional” right to en ter the law school. The riot which ensued broke up the meeting be fore it was discovered that the “lawyerettes” were nothing more than a pair of waggish sec ond-year students in disguise. —The Harvard Crimson. * * * One Sunday afternoon, not long ago, John Moorehead, Tech nology junior at the University of Minnesota, and his girl friend were visiting at Lake Minneton ka. While playing a merry game of hide-and-seek, the girl climbed into the trunk in the back of Moorehead’s car. Thinking he would play a joke on her Moore head slammed the trunk lid shut. After the girl had yelled for a few minutes, Moorehead, who had had his little joke, tried to open the trunk. It was locked. He reached for his keys. They were gone. With the girl bouncing around in the locked trunk, Moorehead drove 12 miles to the nearest town. There he found a garage mechanic who freed the girl by taking the lid from its hinges. —The Minnesota Daily.