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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1941)
Oregon W Emerald 'Hie i_>rrgon uauy Emerald, pusnsned dauy during the c°Ueg^y«»r excep y . Hominy.5, holidays, and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University d Oi «on. Subscription rates: $1.25 per term and $J.OO per year. Entered as secotd r4a»s matter at the postoftice, Eugene, Oregon.__. Represented lor national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTI^NG SERV ICE, ■frJC., college publishers' representative, 420 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago Boa 4k»*i—Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle. _______ •VLB-M. NELSON. Editor JAMES VV. FROST, Business Manager ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Hal O.ney.,Helen Angell__ fmtrtie Leonard, Managing Editor cut Stitzer, News Editor X red May, ^overusing Bob Rogers, National Advertising Mgr. Editorial and Business Offices tocated on ground floor ofJournaUsm building. Phone* J8d Editor; o5o News Office; 359 Sports Office, and ->S4 Business $.400 Extension: J8 Offices. Editorial Board: Roy Vernstrom, Pat Erickson, Helen Angell, Harold Olney, Kent fHUser, limnue Leonard, and Professor George Turnbnll, adviser.____ UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Anita Backoerg, ciasstnea AinveruMus Manager . Qtrur AVpaugh, Layout Production Man* w*> Emerson Page, Promotion Director Eileen Millard. Office Manager Particulars c n Pigging '|J[ORBIPLY man haunts himself today by inhaling the con tents of every news broadcast or editorial commentary available. Why? He wants to know what is happening in the world about him. because, other people do. People like to do what people like to do. To keep up on contemporary events is admirable but at least one overfed newsmonger would approve a. moratorium on .studying ghastly Balkan headlines and fren zied. flashes for a day to better appreciate those events of -fiearby but lesser importance. Today one is so engrossed in the critical complexities of crawy living that he ponders minutes over the answer to v-hy can’t a man marry' his widow’s sister? On the Oregon campus H in just possible that some students have never heard the -fiistory of that by-word, “Pigger." Because of its unimport ance, we now retell a .story concocted by ourselves several years ago. * * * “DIGGING'” to the uninitiated is traditional Oregon argot for that popular pastime of dating the girl friend. And the pigger? Why lie’s a chap caught in the company of his colleen. Hov was this term coined on the campus? That s a short, fchor , story. About sixteen spring terms ago. a foolish Oregon fcreslitnaa had a girl friend who lived at the edge of town, fieing of a retiring disposition yet infatuated, Johnnie camou flaged the visits to liis one and lonely on the outskirts of f«uge: He’d dispose of any inquisitive soul with “Oh, I’m going out to see my pigs. Yes, his folks were farmers near school, but ... Fabrmati >n.s sometimes have flaws—this one did. Johnnie’s trump si-up story was found to he false as a dicer’s oaths. Then the campus citizenry made the Freshman Fraud take it on tl 1 chin, “How’re the pigs, Johnnie?” and “Ar you going pigging tonight, frosh?” are samples of their blarney every time Ore gon F timid swain hove into hearing distance. And hence, the term “pigging" was made a more at Oregon.—K.N.V. One in a Million jk/TOYIE scenario writers have made detectives, fast-talking success men, fellows who always get the girl, and ad ven I arers who work on a 24-hour schedule and never eat out of their conception of the fourth estate.^And for years “old fiands" have scoffed at the glamorous life portrayed as typic ally newspaper life. That sort of life comes once in a million, any old desk man will tell you. Well, that once in a million is Jim uie 'll nmg. The INS man who comes to Oregon this morning to take adventure-loving Webfoots on a tour of the Oriental problem ♦ as lived one of the most colorful careers that any Far Eastern correspondent could l ope for. The group of students who heard 1dm speak at the annual Sigma Delta Chi convention last fall in Des Moines add that ♦cables having a lot of experiences to tell about lie’s “tops as a speaker and keeps his audience following his adventurous teco'.citings with shining eyes. # # #5 IT v as a cold moonlight night on December 31, 1931 when Jimmie Young decided to go see the new premier of Japan in Tokyo. And the story that lie tells of that exciting evening with tin newly-formed Japanese war abinet N like something old. of a fairy tale. lie spent sixty days in a Japanese prison once for taking too mr ‘1 liberty with the press in ivenunting war events. The material, he declared, was copied almost word for word from the official Japanese army paper. .All of these situation.", could not T encompassed in the lif-e of o e student of international affairs without that writ, r coming to know a great deal about :.h > problems, the crises, the fufcu . prospects for tli ai a. An . 1 gon wants more than a scries < anecdotes ... it wants a serious discussion of some |>ci’(Jnent facts in relation to the Far Eastern situation today. Jim mb' Young can probably give both in an interesting coin tin ah. The Passing Parade By DOC HENRY Candidate for public enemy number 1—the jovial old profes sor who only yesterday stated, “There wil be no class today— April Fool!” We hear that Stan Staiger’s best roommate whose name is Foster, unofficially ap pointed Dottie Haven's Stan's steady, as official custodian of Staiger’s wardrobe — Oh well, April Fool’s day only comes once a year. And while speaking of this memorable day, have you seen Bob Cn'ppen’s little Model “T” job? He calls it a “rocket.” Two Piphi-Phidelt steady cou ples are Jeanne Wilcox and Dave Homes, Nan Tengwaid and Don Galbraith. Another steady couple that has passed practically un noticed for a long time is the Jean Talboy, DG, and Jim New quist, Beta, duo. Ray Gaulke, state of Oregon’s safest driver, plants his Theta Chi pin on an OAC maiden, Jeanne Claterbos. Ray plans on getting lots of dfiv ing practice between here and Corn Valley. After retrieving his Kappa Sig pin from Lena Sehles s«r, Gammaphi, Jack Lansing has been seen with DG’s Jean Filcher. It seems the Maradiek Word-Carl Little combination was just a passing fancy — three days isn’t hardly long enough. Seen at the Sigma Delta Chi dance — Jane Furrow with ATO's Will Reyn olds—A last-minute job but a good one! Mighty chummy at the Art School is DG’s Peggy Kemp and Bill Bergtholdt, Theta Chi. We miss Shirley Christlaw, Pi phi pledge, who was unable to return this term because of in juries sustained in an automobile accident. A new addition to the campus is Bill Lord, ATO trans fer from Plow Tech. It is reported that there is glamour to burn at the infirmary —Frinstance, Pat Larkin, Alpha Phi, Jean Younger, DG, Nancy Fay, Gammaphi, and noomerous others. Flash! Another DG, Marg Mad dren gives A1 Lynn his DU brass back. . . . These DG’s are really kicking the gong around—Jane Barlow takes a pin from Norman Marshall, a recent transfer from Stanford. That's all for now. but good ole Humbert Jr. will be back on the rack, or should I say the beam, in Friday’s issue. See you then. OregonH Emerald Wednesday Advertising Stuff: Jim Thayer, manager Leonard Barde Phil Burco David Holmes Bob Rudolph David Zilka Copy Desk: Bob Frazier, city editor Mary Wolf, assistant Rylla Hattan Marjorie Major Yvonne Torgler Barbara Lamb Willard Wilson Joanne Supple Chuck Woodruff Night Staff: Herb Penny, night editor Dick Shelton, assistant Ardie Alexander Joanne Nichols Marge Curtis Of 5S1 men and women who have earned doctoral degrees at New York university school of education in the last decade. 16 are now college presidents. International Side Show By RIDGELY CUMMINGS In an open letter, fellow-stu dent Paul F. Lee has put me on the spot. What is your stand re garding aid to Britain?, he writes, adding, “There seems to be a great deal of inconsistency in your reasoning.” Cummings jb r 1 e 11 y , Mr. Lee, if I have to choose between German fascism and British im perialism, I’ll take the Brit ish brand as the lesser of two evils. But if I have to decide between involving the United btates in a war to preserve the British hege mony of Europe versus the break up of the British Empire and peace for this country, I’ll take peace. Mr. Lee writes, “If we are pre pared to live and bargain under Hitlerism . . . theiv let aid to the democracies be withdrawn . . .” Sort of a Rebel Being a sort of rebel, bred in the humanitarian tradition and with a lot of sympathy for the underdog, I suppose I dislike Hitlerism and the kind of un scrupulous brutality for which the word stands as much as Mr. Lee. But I also believe that, aside from one major difference—racial intolerance—there is little to choose today between Germany and Russia. Russia’s grab of Fin land, eastern Poland, and Bessa rabia certainly cannot be con doned on any moral grounds. Russia, too, operates on the basis secret police, mass arrests, en forced labor, force and terror. What About Stalin But I do not hear Mr. Lee go ing into dithers about the threat of living under Stalinism. That threat, it seems to me, is just as real as the threat of Hitlerism. If we get in this war (and we are practically in already) and Russia stays out, then the real threat to America’s civil liber ties will come from the Stalinis tic brand of dictatorship. By that I mean the rule of a gigantic bureaucracy that gives lip-serv ice to the ideals of social justice while at the same time destroy ing freedom of thought, press, religion, etc. Mr. Lee writes that since this country is already pledged to aid those democracies that are re sisting aggression, we should be consistent and use American con voys to insure the aid reaching its destination. Is It War? Mr. Lee will recall that when the lend-lease bill passed con gress its proponents said it meant aid to Britain short of war. The isolationists said then that such a bill was not “short of war” but Messrs Barkley, Bloom, et al maintained that the na tion’s peace was perfectly safe in the hands of President Roose velt. hew Mr. Lee says that since we have put on our bathing suits we may as well jump into the water. He has forgotten that no nation ever accomplished any thing by jumping into the water of war. All that happens is they get wet—millions of lives are wasted, the cultural achieve ments of generations are de stroyed, and in the end they climb out if they are able and settle the mess around a confer ence table. A Negotiated Peace The policy I advocate is a ne gotiated peace now, instead of after a five-year or a thirty-year war. Britain is fighting the threat of economic strangulation and lessly crying “Carthage delenda est”—Hitler must be destroyed. But Hitler is only a symbol. Unless some solution to the tan gled economic situation in Eur ope is found, this war will settle nothing. I don’t pretend to know how to settle Europe’s economic woes, but I feel sure mass slaughter is not ,the solution. Either the Germans must be completely crushed, as they were in the early 1920’s—in which case we’ll have the whole thing to do over again in another gen eration—or an international peace conference must be called. I am running short of space, Mr. Lee, and haven’t been able to do justice to the very thought ful points you raised. I am sorry you find me inconsistent. To me, the inconsistent ones are those who think good can come through evil methods and a heaven out of hell. From All Sides By MILDRED WILSON Everything happens to him! William F. Allison, University of Pittsburgh graduate and public ity director of the Buhl planet arium there since 1939, was all set to leave for Camp Meade re cently. His friends gave farewell par ties. They gave him army gloves, a fitted case, woolen socks. He sublet his house and got rid of a 2-months-old automobile. His wife, Adele, society editor of the Pittsburgh Press, closed up their home and went back to live with her mother. And then a last-minute exam ination showed that he had flat feet and can’t go. And now they are demanding that he give back the presents. -—The Pitt News. When a professor at the Uni versity of New Mexico noticed a girl among the 29 students of his plass in engineering materials, he immediately appointed a com mittee to see that she received a present from the masculine ele ment of the class every Monday and Friday of the school year. The chairman of the commit tee warned that any engineer who considered the dating of the coed a sufficient present would be duly punished, —The Utah Chronicle. Tired of writing themes for English composition, a freshman at Harvard recently handed in a two thousand-word composition recorded on the two sides of an eight and a ten-inch disc. The theme, titled “In Defense of the Efficiency of Democracy in War time,” is complete with boogie woogie interludes and pseudo news items in imitation of Wal ter Winchell, such as, “flash! Warsaw falls.” FRED’S CAMPUS SHOP Men's Haberdashery by Wilson Brothers Across from Sigma Chi Cleaning Fh. 3 1 4 i