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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1941)
Oregon Emerald '1 he Oregon uaiiy Enterata, puunsned daily during the college year except Sunday*, Mon lavs, holidays, and litial examination periods by the Associated Students, University Ot Oregon. Subscription rates: $1.25 per term and $5.00 per year. Entered as second class matter at the postoftiee, Eugene, Oregon., Represented fo- national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, NC., college publishers’ representative. 420 Madison Ave., New \ork-- Chicago lios an -Los Angeles— San Francisco—Portland and Seattle. JjYLE M. NELSON. Editor JAMES W. FROST, Business Manager ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Hal Olney, Helen Angell Editorial Board: Roy Vernstrom, Pat Erickson, Helen Angell, Harold Olney, Kent Stitrer, limmie Leonard, and Professor George Turnbull, adviser. fimriie Leonard, Managing Editor Item Stitzer, News Editor Fred May, Advertising Manager Bob Rogers, National Advertising Mgr. Editorial and Business Offices located on ground floor of Journalism budding. Phones 3300 Extension: 332 Editor; 333 .News Office; 359 Sports Office; and 354 liusines* Offices. t UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Anita Backberg, Classmed Advertising Manager JRon Alpaugh, Layout Production Man ager iiili v\ anan, circulation manager Emerson Page, Promotion Director Eileen Millard, Office Manager Pat F.rickjon, Women’) Editor Pol) Flavelle, Co-SporU Editor Ken Christianson, Co-Sports Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Rav 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 An Answer to the Critics I^OLLEGK students have heard a great deal lately about a changing world and adjustments that will have to be jnad • to meet new eonditionx in a new world. The old world, the world of easy living and of good times is gone, so our elders tell us “Many of the things which we love and cherish have gone or soon will go, one of their spokesmen recently said The picture which they paint for the present generation is not a pleasant one. To a college student who has lived and based his future upon the premise that lie would bo able to go through life with circumstances much the same as in the past, the picture ix especially unattractive. Most students have spent a great, deal of money and many long hours in study, preparing to nice the circumstances of the world they knew. * *■ * ’kdrOW, our leaders >ay. the world is changing and our lives must be remolded to fit in the new scheme oi. things—our Jive> must be remolded or we will drop by the wayside while the rest of the world hurries on. Such, it seems, is the situation faring the present generation. Fortunately, the picture is not as black as it has been painted. The -world is m bad shape, true enough, but looking only at its evil face doesn’t make things any better. There are many pleasant things left, association with fellow men, love of family and of friends, beauty of nature, and the fun of work ing. These things have inot been outmoded, nor are they likely jto be. When the time conies to change, the present geenration will make the transition with as little confusion as is possible. As one writer once said, “Even if your horse is shot out from und r you. there is always another ready to carry you if you’re wide awake enough to jump.” In Memoriam 'T'WKl.YE sturdy oaks, lined along the sides of the mall between Thirteenth street and the library, now stand as a fitting memorial to an Oregon senior of a couple years ago. Much of the campus citizenry still remembers Bob Bailey, president of the class of *89. who went canoeing on the millrace one bright Sunday afternoon of spring term and didn t come back. But now a near permanent memorial to Bob Bailey has been erected 021 tin* Oregon campus. The trees will unquestionably be a beautiful tribute in the years to come. They will grow and prosper as Oregon grows and expands, admired and enjoyed by countless generations of Oregon students. # # ? I' 11K oak trees are especially appropriate. Any type of tree would be a fine memorial—much better than monuments, or plaques in public buildings. But an oak tree has more 1 har acter than other trees. There is a comforting strength about an oak. Its sturdy trunk and gnarled boughs carry the suggestion ot latent power and a staunchness of moral character unmatched by any other \ uriety. The oaks will be as enduring on the campus as the in eaory of Bob in the minds of his friends. 11.0. “Order of the ‘O’ members are to wear their swee u's all day toda\ and to the assembly tonight.” says a Campus Calen dar item in yesterday’s Emerald. \s if anyone ever saw an Order of the "O man without his sweater. And wo wonder il the Emerald itead which read. “Snowball Bally Rolls Tonight” meant that the rally, like a snowball, would probably break up as soon as it got “rolling.” Shop Talk at the WaxWorks One of the best baseball pitch ers in the business (band busi ness) has been throwing strikes the past few weeks and at the present rate is bound to hit the top in popularity. The man in question is lanky Harry James who rose to fame as Benny Goodman’s ace trum pet man. The thin man, whose trumpet work has been consid ered tops for some time, started slowly with “Music Makers" and “Eli Eli.” Then came “Flight of the Bumblebee’ and “Carnival of Venice" on the same (Columbia) record, and now “Old Man Riv er" and “Answer Man.” Dick Haymes vocal on “River” is one of his be3t. Shaw Takes Off Artie Shaw announced his sec ond retirement recently. This time he is going to Louisiana or Mex ico. He hopes to unearth some na tive American music and to pop ularize it via records and radio. One-nighters, theaters, night clubs, and hotels are out as far as Shaw is concerned. The most recent addition to Glenn Miller’s orchestra, Vocal ist Paula Kelly, is the wife of one of the Modernaires, also featured by Miller. Miss Kelly replaced Dorothy Claire who rejoined Bob by Byrne when Byrne sued Mil ler for “stealing” Miss Claire. Rather than be involved in a law suit, Miller let her go. New Record Releases Horace Heidt cut his best rec ord in months in “G'Bye Now” (Columbia) with Rennie Kemper on the vocal. The Charioteers, a quartet, perform nicely with “Brag-gin" and “You Walked Byv (Columbia). Glenn Miller’s “Ida! Sweet as Apple Cider” is another top notch performance by both the orchestra and Tex Beneke. Re verse is Ray Eberle vocal, “It’s Always Y'ou,” and little more. Other new records worth hear ing: Benny Goodman (Columbia) on “My Sister and I” and “I’m Not Complainin’,” with Helen Forest singing the latter; Artie Shaw’s “Danza Lucumi,” a rhum ba, and “Chantez Le Bas,” (Vic tor) by W. C. Handy; Krupa says it with drums again in “Wire Brush Stomp” and “Hamtranck” (Okeh); Tommy Dorsey turns in a pair of solid arrangements in “What-cha Know Joe?” and “Ev erything Happens to Me" (Vic tor) with Frank Sinatra taking a good vocal on the latter. Oregon If Emerald Saturday Advertising- Staff: Warren Roper, manager Betty Lou Allegre Lucille Reed Maribeth Rodway Don Brinton Bob Nagel Copy Desk Staff: Ray Schrick, city editor Bill Hilton Benue Engel Lynn Johnson Ruby Jackson Night Staff: Mary Wolf, night, editor Marjorie Major Victor Ross Jean B. Wallace, sophomore vice president at Connecticut col lege and daughter of Vice-presi dent Henry Wallace, is followin her father’s footsteps by studyin Spanish, to to International Side Show By R1DGELY CUMMINGS There’s a line in “Tovarich,” play currently being enacted on the campus boards, which goes something like this: “You can Cummings make the Dutch and the French and the Ameri c a n s disgorge, but never the British." The sub j e c t crops up when Helene Par sons and Parker McNeill are de bating whether to give up the crown jools to Jim Parsons in order to save Rooosyuh from foreign cap italists. It is no part of my intention to reveal the play’s denouement— Helene tonight or the smoulder ing Trudy Harland next weekend do it much better—but the fact remains that a certain healthy suspicion of Britain is part of the play’s motivation. You have heard the old chest nut about if you once let the camel get his head in the tent pretty soon you find yourself eat ing sand. Here are a couple of para graphs quoted directly from a United Press dispatch from Lon don: British Protest “The British government was reported tonight (Friday) to have protested informally to the United States against dissemina tion by American newspapers and radio of military information helpful to the Axis. A more rigorous voluntary self censorship must be imposed in the United States, it was felt, to step leakages of information on which secrecy is considered es sential to Britain's war effort.” It is said that in war, truth is the first casualty. If the British chose to impose censorship on American correspondents bper ating in British territory, that is apparently their privilege. This country is not trying to tell the British how to run their country or their war. But when an American report er in neutral territory, say Bern in Switzerland or Lisbon in Por tugal, stumbles against a good story and manages to get it out of silent Europe to the free press of America, then it looks like a lot of crust for the British to ex pect American editors to kill the story. American Policy The American policy has al ways been, and should be, to print the facts and let the chips fall where they may. The subservient, venal, and controlled press of Europe was one of the contribut ing causes of the present war. I never was very good at re membering quotes, but over the doors of the UO library there is carved something that goes like: “Let them know the truth and the truth shall make them free.” In peace or war that seems like a good course to steer by. The British are rather irritat ing sometimes. They have told us so often they are fighting our war that they are beginning to believe it themselves. Some of them may sincerely believe the British are fighting to save the American conception of democracy. I don’t know. I do know that some people right here in Eugene for whbse opinions I have a great deal of respect hon estly believe this to be the case. I don’t blame such people for agitating for American partici pation in the war. It is the only honest position they can take, for no one wants to stand by and let another man fight his battle. But I still can’t see it. World war I and world war II both look like trade battles between the haves and the have-nots. Lit tle good came out of the first one and the “beast of Berlin” of 25 years ago is today a harmless old man chopping v/ood in Doom, Perhaps 25 years from now to day’s “beast of Berlin” will be a doddering old dope painting pic ture post-cards in Copenhagen. In the Editor's Mail Open letter to Mr. Ridgely Cummings: From INTERNATIONAL SIDESHOW to COLLEGE SIDE FARCE in practically no easy steps ... so seems to run the tale of a schoolboy sage whose digressions have inexplicably earned him the exalted title of columnist. Mr. Cummings loves a label, and I fancy the title must have compensating values for a dislocated ego v'hieh consoles it self by distributing (judiciously, of course!) a few' labels to other people. And for not agreeing with a re-hash of Rousseau, I have merited the label of "potential fascist." This is unique. I've been called many things (some unpublish able) but never a fascist—with or without polite qualifications. And, because it is inaccurate, I don’t like it. Love of individual liberty is too much a part of my nature to subscribe to any such notion. This love of liberty is not the blind sort of thing which would deny subscription to social order, nor is it to be construed as trea sonous when I insist that "the great masses of human beings are not fit to govern themselves.” The agreement w’ith this prin ciple is patent in any practicable democracy, no matter what the primary thesis of "equal right." We have equal rights only in pro portion to our fitness to com mand them and I doubt that even Mr. Cummings’ “sublime faith in the decency and reasonableness’’ of his fellow men would be such as to yield the same deference to any random man that he would to one of superior intellect and training. (Any philosopher will agree that the “equal rights” principle is one of the pleasant initial hallucinations of democ racy and that in practice is pure ly proportionate to the individual. I am not certain whether it is sheer space-filling, the strain of attempted profundity, or more of his notorious puerility which makes Mr. Cummings stick out his neck in these inept general izations; but I would suggest that as a ruminating philosopher he retire from public life and com mune with the birds and bees (AND Rousseau) and thereby learn “What Every Young Man Should Know.” At present, there are too many moments reminis cent of Olive Barber—or am I perhaps speaking of a Barber college grad? At any rate, I might refer the gentleman in question to John Stuart Mill’s essay “On Liberty” — There is ample material from which to construct a web or a noose. But, lest I be suspected of shar ing Mr. Cummings’ malady of verbal diarrhea, I shall shut up. Most respectfully, Gene Edwards.