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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1941)
i ip < irpcroti uanv Ktueraia, putinsned daiiy during the college year except Sundays, Ulmdiys, holidays, a«l final examination periods by the Associated Students, University tti Oregon. Subscription rates: $1.25 per term and $3.00 per year. Filtered as second cmatter at the postoftice, Eugene, Oregon. _ Represented tor national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., college publishers* representative, 420 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago Boj too—Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle. 1.VLE M. NELSON, Editor JAMES \V. FROST, Business Manager ASSWClAii!. tununs: rial uiney, xieien /ingeo Editorial Board: Roy Vernstrom, Pat Erickson, Helen Angell, Harold Olney, Kent Sfcitz--. Emmie Leonard, and Professor George Turnbull, adviser. rr rj' Leonard, Managing Editor titzer, News Editor Fred May, Advertising Manager Bob Rogers, National Advertising Mgr. Editorial and Busine,; Offices located on ground floor of Journalism building. Phone* §300 Extension: 33d Editor; 333 IS'evvs Office; 359 Sports Office; and 354 Business Offices. UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Amta Backberg, CUssmei Advertising lfanager Mon Alpaugh, Layout Production Man ager Will wallan, ^itcuiation manager Emerson Page, Promotion Director Eileen Millard, Office Manager Pat Erickson, Women’* Editor Boli Flavelle, Co-Sport* Editor Ken Christianson, Co-Sport Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Ray Schrick, Ass’t Manag ing Editor Betty Jane Biggs, Ass’t News Editor i Wes SuUivan, Ass't New* Editor Corrine Wignes, Executive Secretary Mildred Wilson, Exchange Editor The Failing-Beekman Contest rpiIE importance of the Failing-Beekman oratory contest clearly has been underemphasized in the last few years. *The amount of publicity it has received and the student ♦espouse to the contest have been but poor indications of the ♦cal value of the thing. In the first place, contrary to popular opinion, the contest in open to all graduating seniors. It does not make any differ ent whether a student is a speech major, or has ever taken speech, as far as the judges are concerned.. Further, the name Oratory does not quite describe the contest. Only one-half of the points in judging are given on effectiveness of presenta tion—the rest is based upon the thought matter contained in the various talks. That point i> not always understood in Student circles. * * # rT'IlK contest offers an excellent opportunity for a student who is interested in a certain problem to gather the ma ted, 1 on the topic, digest it, and then to present it in his own wor Is. More valuable and more practical education can hardly l>s imagined. The problems are almost unlimited, but the writ ten draft must, be presented to the judges for an okay before the f dials of the contest are gained. Of course important considerations—at least for the seniors •—are the prizes of $ldO and $100 which are given to the first and second place winners. These few points should indicate beyond much doubt that the Failing-Beekman contest is worthy of every senior’s par ticipation, and certainly merits the interest of the entire stu dcn‘ body. He Should Have Come jf A >T Thursday a typical American figure named Will Irwin was scheduled to address Oregon students and faculty on the importance of youth’s backing for the nationwide drive for aid to the small democracies of Europe. But Mr. Irwin didn’t come. Eugene wasn’t really scheduled on 1 is list of appearances on the coast, and lie had just hoped to sbp in his talk here in order to create a relief-consciousness on this campus. If Mr. Irwin had been able to speak to the University group he would have probably told undergraduates that the five email democracies are starving, that the United States is about to sir in judgment upon the fate of 30,000,000 people of Europe, who are facing a famine this winter against which they are helpless. He would probably have declared that there are just three quarters from which aid can come: the United States, England, and Germany. \nd two of those countries are, to put it mildly, vein busy. * JJil would have startled Web foots by his declaration that only tlio tiny e mntry of Portugal now commands a normal fao< supply. that Franco, Spain. Norway. Finland, tin* Nether lands arc threatened with starvation before harvest time; that Belgium and central Poland now have existing famine. Ho would perhaps have quoted the New York Su ruary TO. which declared ‘'The talk is of war or immediate hel] t; Britain to preserve democracy. No voices are raised in the broad interest of a humanity suffering already from star vation. and threatened famine . . . no voices except perl:s that of Herbert Hoover and a devoted group of friends.” lie would have shown facts and figures to prove that the org. ■:i -ation’s carefully-designed plan to keep the food from falli g into Berman hands would work. The idea is to send inti- any of the small democracies only enough food at one time to last three or four days, so that any capture by Germany would cause little loss. If Britain discovered that food was being misappropriated by Germany, imports through the blockade would cease. * « * JJJE would probably declare that his committee for aid to the small democracies is not asking for money, supplies or ships . . . but for an “aroused public conscience.’’ The European countries would pay for the good provided. It is too bad that Mr. Irwin had to cancel his Eugene address. For Oregonians tend to become so intrigued in marking stra tegic “xV' on maps of the Balkans or north Africa and in moving imaginary ships around the Mediterranean that they forget humanity itself. In the midst of building ships to destroy, "and planes to kill. Americans who base their conception of life on every man’s right to live should find a common interest with Mr. Hoover and his committee. For the committee does not ask for donations or government appropriation ... it is a neutral organization designed to make food available to those millions hemmed in by a fierce economic blockade. All that they ask is American sympathy for the job they are doing.—H.A. International Side Show By RDDGELT CUMMINGS The biggest news since the war on Germany then it is vital German smash into Greece is the Russian-Japanese non-aggression pact which was signed over the ■weekend, and if I hadn’t got im Cummings Droned, in a con troversy with Gene Edwards I would have writ ten about it soon er. But now that I have given Gene an “out” by in dicating that he may be only a Tory instead of a potential fascist. why the road is clear. To Explain the Pact In the first place, the pact is simply a promise by each nation that it will respect the ‘tereritor ial inviolability” of the other. If Japan is the “object of military action on the part of one or sev eral powers” Russia promises to remain neutral, and vice versa if Russia is attacked Japan prom ises hands off. Now I don’t profess to have any inside track, but the way I see it, it is an unfortunate move from the point of view of the United States and possibly Ger many, and a good move from the Russian and Japanese viewpoint. It is bad for the U.S. because it apparently nullifies the woo ing actions of our state depart ment toward the Soviets. A month or so ago Secretary Hull lifted the “moral embargo” that was clamped on the “communi sals” because of their unpro voked attack on Finland. At the same time certain trade conces sions were made to Russia and wiseacres like myself said, “Aha, the U.S. is trying to get Joe Sta lin in the proper frame of mind to jump on Japan’s vulnerable Siberian flank when and if Ja pan gets tough with the U.S.” Japan Has Free Hand By the non-aggression pact Stalin promises not to do thi3, and thus Japan gains a freer hand in the Pacific and the U.S. gets a set-back. From the German point of view it may not be so good ei ther. Russia signed a friendship pact with Jugoslavia just before Germany attacked that Balkan nation. Why did Russia sign? Probably because Russia is wor th.' 1 over the German expansion southward toward the Darden elles. After Jugoslavia and Greece comes Turkey, and if the Nazis invade Turkey, once they cross the Hellespont they have cut the Russian outlet into the Mediter ranean. Russian shipping could be bottled up in the Black sea. No nation likes being bottled up, in cluding probably Russia. What to Do? Now if Russia is getting wor ried by the Nazi expansion it is natural that she may be thinking of doing something about it. “Do ing something” these days seems to mean war, and if Russia plans to her that she fight the war on only one front. By signing a five year friendship pact with Japan, Russia gains a promise of free dom from attack along her Si berian coastline. * A couple months ago when this country gave twenty million dol lars or some equally huge sum to China, this column predicted the possibility that the Russians would pull out of China and leave the U.S. holding the bag. And so, Russia Your prognosticator predicted then that Russia was playing it smart, that what the communists wanted to see was the rest of the world exhausted by war and hence susceptible to communist propaganda. If this country is willing to subsidize the Chiang Kai-Shek battle (don’t misunder stand me, it is probably a good battle if any battle is good) then that's okay with Russia. They’ll spend their kopeks at home pro viding somebody keeps the Chi nese fighting the Japanese. Of course the pact is distinctly embarrassing to the Chinese com munists, but that means nothing to Stalin, for the party line is continually embarrassing its ad herents in some nation or anoth er. Brecon IfEMERAU) Wednesday Advertising Staff: Jim Thayer, manager Leonard Barde Dave Holmes Bob Rudolph Dave Zilka Copy Desk Staff: Bob Frazier, city editor Bill Hilton, assistant Willard Wilson Yvonne Torgler Jo Ann Nichols Herb Penny Kent Stitzer Mary Wolf Night Staff: Herb Penny, night editor Dick Shelton, assistant Joanne Nichols Ted Goodwin Third UO Airman Makes First Solo Third to solo in the spring term civil pilot training clas'^ John Hardy took his initial lone flight Tuesday. Instructed by Harold Sander, Hardy had ac cumulated eight hours of dual flying before making his attempt alone. Yesterday’s soloist was preced ed by Jack Hannegan and Har old Schluter, who flew alone over the weekend. The remaining 47 students in the class of 50 are in various stages of instruction, ac cording to the CPT office, with many planning to solo sometime this week. The Passing Parade By NICHOLAS POROZOFF Guest Columnist for Doc Henry You’re a coast GADABOUT . . . IF . . . you’ve spent a week end at Palm Springs and instead of movie celebs ran into all your friends from school, there on some excuse or another. . . . IF you’ve gone into Ciro’s on the Strip and ran into Sigma Chi Dick Grady instead of Carmen Miranda. ... if you’ve sat in on sessions with Freddy Martin, Russ Morgan, Brenda Marshall, Bill Holden, and Frank Loesser, he by the way wrote DOLORES, the tune that the Merry Macs plus the Bingus are doing such a nice job on ... if you have, you were at the Palladium, million dollar nitery in the film capital. If you saw four thousand col legians all eating at the same time and applauding every five minutes, you were present at the Interfraternity Alumni dinner ... and you’d have clapped your hands too . . . entertainment by Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Russ Morgan, and Johnny Rich ards . . . speakers, Senator “Hap py” Chandler of Kentucky, Cal’s prexy Gordon Sproul and Rufus B. von Klein-Smid of SC . . . yet. You’ve really been around if you’ve taken in the “Windsor” lounge of the Senator in Sacra mento, and in the lobby all you saw were Oregon alums and ex’s . . . like going to a Pan-Hellenic session . . . have you ever? tney ’re more fun n’anything, I hear say. And in San Francisco, if a dapper orchestra leader came up to you and asked you to say hello to Chuck Mallory, Sigma Nu, and if Cobina Wright Jr. brushed past you and William Saroyan, the genius, and scribe Herb Caen, S.F.’s Walter Win ched, were talking to Mischa Auer . . . drag out your social register, you just walked through the lobby of the Mark . . . state ly queen of hotels . . . and if you've seen royalty in* person, Prince and Princess Vasili Ro manoff, Princess Galitzine and Countess Barbara, with one Cary Grant, by name, and once more the Cobina Wrights . . . Junior and Senior this time . . . well, don’t let it get you . . . you were merely lunching in Palm Court of the Palace hotel. If Ed Langweil, associate edi tor of LIFE magazine, Fred Bo hen, he of LOOK, Herb Corwin who puts out GAME and GOSSIP and Bing- Crosby were dining to gether . . . there’ll be no trouble as to guessing where . . . Bali room of Hotel Del Monte. If Kyser, first name’s Kay, asked about Pat Taylor, Babs Reed and Sue Peil . . . then you know he still remembers ye olde E-ugene. In Portland if the gal that showed you around was Patsy Shea, KKG . . . and the young man with slightly greying hair talked about the Balkan situation . . . then you were taking in the sights with Northwest boy Don Forbes . . . over your radio dials you know' him as the RICH FIELD REPORTER ... no less. In Seattle ... if you were in a cornerside booth with Eilie Kent (KKG) plus hubbie Brad Smith and Nancy Hay also plus husband . . . then you were in the Olympic’s grill . . . hangout of IT of W glitterbugs. In closing, Oregonians thanks (Continued or. page Jive)