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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1941)
Oregon Emerald rl he Oregon uaiiy Emeraio, puunsned daily during the college year except Sundays, llondavs, holidays, and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University «f O-egon. Subscription rates: $1.25 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Represented for rational advertising by NATIONAL. ADVERTISING SER\ ICE, INC., college publishers’ representative, 420 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago— Bos ton — Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle. LYLE M. NELSON. Editor JAMES VV. FROST. Business Manager ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Hal Oluey, Helen Angell Editorial Board: Roy Vernstrom, Pat Erickson, Helen Angell, Harold Olney, Kent Stitzer, timmie Leonard, and Professor George Turnbull, adviser. :m a Leonard, Managing Editor t Stitzer, News Editor Fred May, Advertising Manager Bob Rogers, National Advertising Mgr. Editorial and Business Offices located on ground floor of Journalism building Phones *300 Extension: 382 Editor; 353 News Office; 359 Sports Office; and 3a4 Business Offices. UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Anita Backberg, Classified Advertising Bill Wallan, Circulation Manager Manager Emerson Page, Promotion Director Xon Alpaugh, Layout Production Man agr,r Eileen Millard. Office Manager UPPER NEWS STAFF . £>«t Erick$Oft, Women'* Kay Sctirick, Ass’t Manag- Corrine V ignes, Executive Editor wig Editor Secretary Bob Flavelle, Co-Sporta Betty Jane Biggs, Ass’t MHdred Wilson, Exchange Editor News Editor Editor "Ken Christianson, Co Sports Wes Sullivan, Ass’t News Editor Editor Activities’ George Luoma HpuKRE can he little doubt that George Imoma lias built up an enviable record during his time as assistant educa tional activities manager. From the time oi his appointment last spring term until liis resignation was accepted by the edu ationai activities board last night, Luoma has been busy promoting student participation in activities, and assisting George Hoot in other educational matters, It is in the field of encouraging student participation in activities that Luoma has done his best work. Starting at the first of the year he organized a staff of students for the pur pose of surveying al! activities and classifying them, finding wh *r the opportunities were greatest for newcomers, coordi nating the various branches, and securing publicity for activity pcopl •. * ** * ¥T s crew, under aide leadership, lias done a remarkable job. Any field that, offered the slightest opportunity for stu dc: f talent was investigated. An elaborate chart of activities will indications of how many people were involved appeared in the educational activities office. Many stories about stu dents who were doing outstanding work came out oi the oifice. The final result of the efforts put forth in studying activities was an accurate activities file, giving the name of every stu dei!‘ in activities, with tin' positions held and other pertinent data. It is the first file of its kind in ASUO history and should prove invaluable to future executive committees and other organizations with appointments to make. If kept up the file may oven become a valuable reference and aid in placement of students, & ft T UOMA left the job as assistant manager before his term was up. He did so, he told members of the educational activities board, after considering all the factors involved. The responsibilities of the position, plus a full course in law school were such that he felt it best to turn over his post. For two terms, Luoma had been doing a top-notch job of both his work in educational activities and his academic work in Jaw school, where he made the honor roll both terms. The strain of both jobs, he felt, was a little too much. On the activity card of George Luoma should be written, “assistant educational activities manager, fall and winter 1940 41, an excellent job." King Peter II IMPOST of us are older than Peter Karageorgevitch. Most of our freshmen are older than Peter Karageorgevitch. At seventeen Peter Karageorgevitch has beiome, suddenly, ruler of all the South Slavs, the warring- and troubled peoples of Yugoslavia. IPs orders have to be interpreted in at least three languages Prince Paul, young King Peter's ex regent, was thought to be a cautious man. He looked all ways at the crossroads and decided, when the crisis came, to make himself agreeable to Hitler’s demands. Some of the Yugoslavs rebelled at the thought, and in the dark and still of the night a little over a week ago, young Peter found himself made their king. ‘\L have decided to take the royal power into my hands . . . the regents have resigned . . he told his subjects. The world was surprised. Before the coup, Peter had not been recognized as a political force in the European muddle. The people of Yugoslavia were a mixed, fractious group and not too much attention was paid the opposition to Regent Paul’s administration. The opposition had been complaining that the people were being told nothing by Prince Paul. The compromise with Hitler was not their wish. * # # ’UTHOR1TIES stated a belief that rarely had a state been in so helpless a position as Yugoslavia. They thought Hitler was playing a united Yugoslavia against a a united Bul garia. and it was known there was no love lost between those groups. They didn't recognize the strength of the Yugoslav dissenters. Peter Karageorgevitcli had been a story-book prince. He had ruled Yugoslavia only through regents since his father’s assassination six years ago. Now, with lighting swiftness, he steps ont of the story-book into headline news. Most of us are older than King Peter II of Yugoslavia. And our world, too, is turbulent. 'We have spring coming on, and the draft. Peter lives in a world of bombs and planes and strategy and grey-green tanks. We do not envy the little bov king. International Side Show By RIDGELY CUMMINGS Messrs Hal Olney and Frank F. Lee need expect no long-wind ed rebuttal of the attack they made on this column’s viewpoint in Saturday’s Emerald. Olney Cummings made an eloquent plea for caution, a “course in com mon sense’’ for those holding opinions different from his own. It is all right to be a pacifist in time of peace, he writes in effect, but for goodness sake keep it a secret when there is a war brewing. Caution is not the greatest vir tue, Hal, as your fellow-protest er, Mr. Lee points out. Mr. Lee minces no words. He is out for the complete extermination of “naziism, fascism, and commun ism.” That is a laudatory pro gram, Mr. Lee, but do you mind if I stay in my own backyard while you go do your bit in the Balkans ? Speaking of the Balkans, can non fodder was being used up there at a terrific rate last night and the prospects were that there would be a couple of new nations engulfed in the war soon. Since Germany loosed its blitz krieg on Greece and Yugoslavia early Palm Sunday morning—odd that these tragic events seem to fall on weekends—the three Hit ler satellites, Hungary, Rumania, and Bulgaria have been under Y'ugoslav and British bombard ment. Hungary threatened to enter the war openly on the side of Germany and Italy, and Great Britain moved to break off dip lomatic relations with Hungary because it had ‘‘become a base of operations” against the Yugo slavs and Greeks. Turkey was said to be teeter ing on the brink of war, but dis patches from Istanbul indicated the Germans had in two days of fighting reached the Aegean sea, driving a wedge between Turkey and Greece. The Nazi motorized forces were said to have rolled across Thrace to the Aegean. A fellow named Winston Bur dett, Columbia broadcasting sys tem’s correspondent at Ankara, is credited with this flash. Most of the news available last night was re-writes of radio reports, and the governments concerned control the radio so they must be taken with a grain of salt. The Greek radio reported that the Germans were using para chute troops behind the Greek lines, that the Greeks had cap tured some of these, and that the “vicious German onslaughts” had been hurled back except in two forts in the Struma valley, which fell to the Germans “after fight ing to the last man.” The radio at Belgrade, capital of Yugoslavia, was still silent, having been blacked out since dawn Sunday, but Nazi pilots boasted the city was a shambles of flames after four fierce dive bombing attacks. Yugoslav forces were reported to have driven across the fron tier into the Italian army in Al bania, penetrating five miles. If true this means that Mussolini’s rear is threatened by Yugoslavs, his Albanian front by the Greeks, and his communications with Italy proper by British naval craft in the Adriatic sea. Russia was silent but got a pat on the back from Washington from Secretary of State Cordell Hll, who viewed the Russian-Yu goslav friendship pact, signed on the eve of Germany’s invasion, as encouraging. The Axis drive in the Balkans would naturally be expected to reduce the pressure on England proper, but last night London dispatches told of a heavy air at tack on Liverpool and the Mer seyside, and scattered bombings elsewhere. In the Editor's Mail Dear Editor: The present European war is making' its influence felt in the United States to an ever increas ing degree. The conflict is carry ing its heritage of hatred, bit tk rness. and oppression across the broad expanse of the Atlan tic and making rapid encroach ments on the civil lights of those in this country. A case in point is the renewed attack on Harry Bridges. Pacific Coast Maritime labor union head. The forces that always oppose those who work in the interest of the laboring man are drawn up in a new battle array. Now that war has stirred the national feelings of our people, has brought them to a state of emo tional imbalance, these forces op posing- labor are concentrating for a new attack, not only upon Budges, but upon organized la bor as a whole. If the American people allow attacks upon labor leaders, such as the one upon Harry Bridges, to succeed they will soon find that all the rights, which have been won for labor by dint of continual struggle for the past few years, will be taken away. Not only that but other civil rights will vanish. Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom of the press will be so curtailed as to be entirely non existent. Those rights and priv ileges, for which the founding (Please turn to page five) The Passing Parade Well, we start another week and now we can get down to the serious work of enjoying spring term to the fullest extent, the California liquid sunshine appar ently has ceased pouring, and the politicians are underfoot again, as per usual spring term. FLASH!!! Neil Haig, president of the University of Washington student body visited this campus yesterday, on his tour of Pacific coast colleges and dropped this little bit of information to your correspondent. “Oregon has one of the finest student governments on the coast. You were nosed out by Stanford but it is a close race, I like your campus very much, especially the mill race and want to say that the working plans for your future Student Union build ing are great." Nosegays and cor sages to the present student of ficers and the executive coun cil. . . . For almost a week I have been trying to print this little bit of news from the Alpha Phi house but something has always come up that prevented it . . . Jane Shepherd announced her engage ment to a Beta from Stanford . .. Mary Jane Tennent is also pass ing the candy or whatever they pass out when they announce their intentions to marry—the boy is Evan Smith from L.A. . . . Another one of the triangles has broken up, Dorothy Wheeler gives Bert Meyers, ATO the TKO (Technical kiss-off) leaving Jim Marnie, SAE, a free track. Jeanetde Neilson, Highland house takes Bernie McCudden’s SAE pin — Matt Kelly, man around the campus and Louise Wraith, Chi Omega, have broken up . . . Both Kirkwood and Camp bell co-ops have new pins—look out, girls, they are real “purty" pins— This column's congratulations to Buck Buchwach, Lou Torge son and Gene Brown for inventing a new way to select Junior Week end finalists, it really was a “si min pure" event and for the first time politics didn’t play any part in the selections ... I might add that the committee really did pick some “Queens.” Take a peek at these names and decide for yourself . . . Barbara Todd, El eanor Seaerstrom, Dot Wheeler, Bubs Neu, Annabelle Dow, Helen Angell, Isolde Eichenlaub, Jean Burt, and Wini Green . . . George Turnbull, journalism prof. “Couldn’t believe his own eyes,’’ because the 11 a.m. report ing class was out in full force Monday morning. Buck Buchwach reading a book and Bill Fendall reading “Time” trying to outwait one another while visiting Virginia Bryant . . . P.S. Virginia spent a boring time twiddling her thumbs. Milodene Goss gives Bill Car roll, OSC. ATO, his pin back . . . Chuck (The Duck) Mallory, Sig ma Nu. claims he looks like Er rol Flynn, with the lip hedge he is raising for the Whiskerino, but the boys can only count 9 (nine) who are you trying to kid, Chuck? . . . Bob Flavelle, delivery boy for the Siberrian, seems to take ad vantage of his night delivering and is combining a little social contact with his work . . . Jean Morrison, Tri Delt, and Jess Shinn, Fiji, seem to be getting along together all right . . . Hartley Kneeland gives his Sig ma Chi cross to Ann Brown, Al (Please turn to page five)
