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College Students and the Draft
rvK. George Gallup, director of the American Institute of
^ Public Opinion, lias just released some very encouraging—
veil as very important—information to college students.
The information consists of the tabulation of the latest Gallup
^poll on the question of college students and the draft.
I The results of the Gallup poll on the question, ‘-.Should
College students be permitted to finish their present college
Com sc before -being drafted into the army ?” show an over
whelming vote in the affirmative. The ‘‘yes vote was 69 per
cent of the ballots, vith only 31 per cent dissenting.
If the selective s--twice program follows the Gallup lead—
and it has been proven to be an accurate indication of public
opinion—then freshmen, sophomores, and juniors in univer
sities and colleges today probably will be given an opportunity
to finish their courses before they are taken for a year’s service
in t i e army,
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''HAT bit of news should be welcome in just about all stu
d-nt circles. The majority of college students have worked
tiard and spent considerable money, hoping to get an education
in some chosen field. As the selective service act pressed closer
to them they began to sec their hopes of a college degree
vanishing. Now, it seems, there may be a chance that they will
f»C a’lowed to finish before being called to serve in the army.
At least that is the desired policy as far as the majority of
the public is concerned. Because the selective service army is
-largely a people’s army, the weight of public opinion should
§>C very influential i:i determining the policy.
A deferment to allow college students to finish their courses
is sound national defense. The case for such a deferment was
very veil expressed by some of the people interviewed in the
Callup poll. “The completion of a college course-would make
a man more useful to the country than would a year in the
army or navy,” they said.
^T ATIONAIi defense is not all trained man power. A large
part of the defense program must be built about trained
brain power and men who are capable of organizing and run
ning the important phases of industry. The present war, as one
of ti e Gallup interviewees said, “is a war of brains as well as
figlriug soldiers.”
Not to be forgotten also, is the welfare of the country after
the war. The most important work of all — that of getting
things back to normal, of setting up the machinery for a more
lasting peace, and of rebuilding the country—should not be
forgotten. Much of that work is going to fall upon the college
trail ed man and woman.
It would not be unfair discrimination to grant a deferment
to n on and women taking courses in which they can con
trilu te more to national defense than by taking up a year’s
training in the army. It B a sound military and national policy.
Apprently the public is aware of that.
The board of Ottawa Collegiate institute is trying to solve
a mystery of 1.91-5, revealed in a letter from an honor student
of that year. Miss Sybil Stewart complained that the "•gold"
medal presented to her in recognition of her scholastic standing
lias turned out to be nothing but gilded bronze.
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Hamilton college has one English composition student who
|foes in for realism, lie wrote on <:My Koommate Gives Me a
Hair'at." Clinging to the theme paper which he turned in to
Davi i 11. Cettle, instructor, were several small, closely-clipped
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AN INITIATION CENTER. IT IS THEIR.
BOAST THAT NO WOMAN HAS EVER
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International Side Show
By RIDGEL.Y CUMMINGS
The world war is at present
being fought on four fronts,
namely Africa, Greece, the Brit
ish Isles and the Atlantic, and
Washington, D. C.
On the African front last night
BBHU;
Cummings
the British re
ported success in
halting the Ger
man panzer drive
toward the Suez
canal. The nazis
have already re
captured much of
Cirenaica, in the
northern part of
Libya, where a
few months ago
r'mnminp’S
the British made a startlingly
successful drive on the Italians.
Australians and New Zealanders
drove west along the Mediterran
ean coa«t of Egypt into Libya,
captured Tobruk, Derna, and
Bengasi, and seemed headed
straight for the important Ital
ian port of Tripoli.
Successful in Ethiopia
Then the British Imperial army
in Libya was apparently weak
ened in order to strengthen the
forces driving into Ethiopia. The
British have been successful in
Ethiopia, at any rate, but at the
same time German reinforce
ments landed at Tripoli have
swept back over Libya, driving
the British back to the Egyptian
border.
Last night a United Press cor
respondent with the British forces,
named Jan Yindiich, got out
a dispatch from the besieged port
of Tobruk giving an eye-witness
account of war in the desert. The
Germans attacked during a dust
storm, Yindrich wrote. Eight hun
dred nazi infantrymen climbed
out of 30 trucks and advanced
in close formation on the outer
perimeter of forts as the dust
suddenly cleared. The British
spotted them, their artillery laid
down a heavy barrage behind the
infantrymen to keep them from
retreating, machine gunners
opened a withering fire, and the
eight hundred were just mowed
down.
Opportunity
Alfred Lord Tennyson immor
talized the charge of 600 men at
Balaklava in 1854 during the Cri
mean war in his poem, “The
Charge of the Light Brigade.”
Here looks like a chance for some
Teutonic Tennyson to do like
wise with “The Charge of the
Panzerites at Tobruk.”
Men are men whether they
wrear British brown or nazi green
and there is something about 800
men advancing in close formation
with artillery shells falling be
hind them and machine gun fire
in front that grips the imagina
tion.
But although the picture grips
my imagination I have no desire
to be one of the 800. As you, my
gentle reader, read this and then
walk around Oregon’s peaceful
campus, ask yourself what it was
that they died for, these men who
are now covered with flies and
gritty with sand, swelling under
the African sun. The answer is
words, words, words.
Heavy Fighting
On another front the battle for
Greece was going on in deadly
earnest last night. “Heavy fight
ing” wras reported along a 150
mile front stretching from Mount
Olympus, fabled home of the
gods, across the Greek peninsula
to the Adriatic sea. Berlin
claimed the British were being
encircled in the Mount Olympus
region, which was a contradic
tion to their Tuesday night’s
boasting. Two days ago the Ger
mans claimed the British were
evacuating through the port of
Pireaus while the British denied
this and said they were bringing
in reinforcements.
In the Mediterranean the Brit
ish annihilated an Italian convoy
of eight ships, according to Lon
don reports. Three of Mussolini’s
destroyers were sunk and the
British lost one during the bat
tle, the admiralty said. The con
voy was said to be taking Ital
ian troops to Tripoli to strength
en the Axis north African drive.
One Most Severe
On the third front London suf
fered one of its most severe
bombings of the war last night.
Hundreds of planes dropped fire
bombs and explosives, the Brit
ish reported.
In Washington the treasury
department announced that a
load of gold from South Africa
had arrived in New York har
bor. One hundred and thirty-two
million dollars worth of the so
called “precious” metal was pur
chased by the U.S. from the Brit
ish treasury. News stories didn’t
say, but one presumes the gold
will be buried in the Kentucky
hills with all the rest of the stuff
the U.S. has been accumulating
lately.
The
Passing
Parade
By CORINE LAMON
w.
Not a lot is new these days, but
here are a few items a FEW peo
ple on the campus may not have
heard yet ....
Correction department: Elaine
Clark, Kappa, does NOT have
Bob Broderick’s ATO pin—she
gave it back a couple of weeks
ago . . . and, for Doc Henry’s in
formation Ann Brown is NOT an
Alpha Phi and Hartley Neeland is
NOT a Sigma Chi, although they
ARE pinned—he is a Phi Delt.
. . . also, Barbara Todd is NOT
going STEADY with Porky An
drews. . . .
And now for what IS what:
Ena Livingston took Bob Glaze’s
OAC Sigma Chi pin . . . grads
Ituth Tawney and Don Lewis,
SX, are soon to be married . . .
Dorothy Heck, Gammaphi, and
George Olsen, Phidelt, are going
steady. . . .
Jim Davidson, Chi Psi, and
ATO Carl Little (two of the
most kissed-off men on the cam
pus, ACCORDING TO Jim Hic
key) have been squiring Theta’s
Betty Rathbun about a lot . . .
and Jack Lansing has his pin
back AGAIN . . . Duke Iverson
dating Joyce Timmons, Alpha Phi
transfer from UCLA . . . Ruth
Condon and Don Swink going
steady . . . Bonnie Uhl, Alpha
Phi, seen a lot with Bill Barrish,
Kappa Sig . . . likewise Evelyn
LeMasters, Kappa, with Ehle Re
ber, Sig Ep. . . .
Date Bait (of sorts)—Dick Me
Clintic says he has been trying
to plant his SAE pin for nigh
onto THREE years—you know
the old one about “if at first you
don’t, etc.,’’ Dick . . . Kay Scott,
Theta, gets a new powder blue
Olds CONVERTIBLE next week.
Old - steadies - that - haven’t -
been - in - print - for - a - long -
time department: Nancy Gardner,
Theta and Les Thayer, Sig Ep—■
they’re pinned, incidentally . . .
Sally Mitchell and Steve Bodner,
Phidelt . . . Bob Young and Fay
etta Wasser . . . Barbara Trimm,
Gamma Phi, and Jack Winslow,
Chi Psi—she has his sweetheart
pin . . . Norma Campbell, DG,
and Johnny Craig, Beta—they
claim a long-time RECORD. . . .
Jean Holmes, DG, is Alaska
bound, we hear . . . Virginia
Bubb, Chi O, and Liz Daggett,
Pifi, seen coming out of a for
tune teller’s . . . Bert Sinclair
claims he is “FORTE IN AM
ORATO’’ of a certain Delta Gam
ma . , .
Cute LITTLE couple: Helen
Mitchell and Roy Rammerell, Phi
Delt.
Campus Calendar
Professor Moll’s poetry group
will meet at 7 p.m. tonight in
room 104 journalism. Please bring
your copies of “Gargantua’s
Mouth.”
Tea will be served at 4 o’clock
today in the YWCA bungalow.
University YMCA luncheon
group will hear Bob Calkins talk
on the campus politics at their
weekly program meeting this
noon in the “Y” hut.
All social chairmen of men’s
living organizations will meet
this afternoon at 4 o’clock in the
men’s lounge in Gerlinger hall.
Amphibian practice at 5 and
7:30 Thursday—every Amphibian
and pledge must be present.