ALEXANDER
JUNIOR,
WAS ABLE
TO READ
BEFORE HE
WAS TWO.
NEVER
ATTENDED
GRADE
vfCHCDU
RECENTLY
ENTERED
THE U. OF
WASHINGTON
AT THE RIPE
OLD AGE OF 12!
OR. WILLEM 0. LUVTEN OF THE UNW.OF
MINNESOTA HAS DISCOVERED A NEW
STAR, A CUBIC INCH OF WHICH WOULD
WEIGH 1000 TONS/
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I MUST BE ABOUT TWO i
STEPS THIS SIDE OF
HEAVEN/
Mallie Harris, supervisor of
JANITORS AT THE UNIV. OF KANSAS,
ESTIMATES HE HAS CLIMBED
5,680,000 STEPS, OR ATOTAL OF
742 MILES, INTHE PAST 14 YEARS'
International bide bhow
By BIDGELY CUMMINGS
The accepted journalism tech
nique calls for a writer to put
his most important and striking
facts in the opening sentence.
wmm 'm
Cummings
me idea oemna
this practice is
that newspaper
readers are both
lazy and subject
to distractions. If
it doesn’t sound
interesting they
may never get
beyond the first
few words. Some
one joins them
m tne Dootn ana starts retailing
some spicy gossip, or the nickel
odeon starts playing and the read
er looks up and nods his (or more
likely her) head in time, and
when his or her eye returns to
the printed page it may be to
pass up this gem and go on to
something more vital.
But I have found in picking
these diurnal gleanings off the
night wire that often an incon
spicuous phrase buried midway
in a massed column of type will
throw new light on a story.
Dawn Bombardment
Such a phrase came over last
night in a story from London
telling how the British Mediter
ranean fleet had blasted the Ital
ian port of Tripoli in a dawn
bombardment. Tripoli is on the
northern coast of Africa, just op
posite the island of Sicily. It has
been the base to which German
troops and supplies have been fer
ried for the Italian-German drive
each across the desert toward
Egypt and the Suez canal.
Well, the British admiralty
told how some planes attached to
the fleet encountered five big
German troop-carrying planes
en route to Tripoli and downed
four of them.
Then the story continues:
“Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, describing the shoot
ing down of the four troop
carrying planes before a laugh
ing house of commons, said: T
have not heard whether they
wrere full or empty’.”
A Tough Time
That paragraph brings a lot of
things to mind. In the first place
it reminds one that Churchill is
still considered the leader of Bri
tain’s fighting forces and must
be having a tough time these
days explaining the disastrous
campaign in Greece. I don’t re
member if it was after Dun
kerque or Norway that Church
ill’s predecessor Chamberlain fell
from power, but it was one or the
other that paved the way for the
retirement of the now dead and
almost forgotten “man with the
umbrella.” The present situation
in the eastern Mediterranean
must be a severe strain on the
Churchill regime.
Then the fact that members of
parliament can still laugh while
in session is a tribute to the re
siliency of the human spirit, but
one wishes commons would find
something more suitable for hu
mor than the mental picture of
four huge air transports packed
full of human pawns crashing in
flames into the blue waters of
the Mediterranean. The individ
ual German soldier didn’t ask to
be packed like sardines into the
belly of a plane and whizzed
through the air to Tripoli. There
is nothing funny in their deaths
—if they WERE in the planes
and DID die.
Little to Say
That’s one of the sad parts
about this w'ar or any war—that
the individuals participating in
it have so little to say about
where they shall go or what they
snaa ao.
I can imagine a general’s staff
room and the general looking at
a map. “Have to straighten out
the line a little right here,” he ,
grunts, puffing on his pipe. “Tell
Colonel Highpockets to tend to
it first thing in the morning.”
Colonel Highpockets gets the
order, looks at HIS map, mur
murs “Humm, opposite Sourpuss’
company. Get Captain Sourpuss (
on the phone.” ^
The Captain decides to use Ser
geant John Bananas and a cmmle _
of squads. Sergeant Bananas ‘
says, “Private Cummings, you
and Private Joe Blow go out (
there and cut those wires and ,
we’ll follow right behind you and \
wipe out that machine gun nest.” \
Now Cummings doesn’t care if
the lines are straight or crooked
and he has no desire to go out
and cut wires in the face of a
machine gun, but military eti- |
quette requires that he go . . .
and the chances are that’s the
end of Private Cummings.
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The national youth adminis- t
tration is providing part-time 1
work for about 450,000 boys and c
girls from 16 to 24 in high schools i
and colleges. t
Oregon If Emerald
Wednesday Advertising Staff:
Jim Thayer
Leonard Barde
Bob Rudolph
Dave Ziica
Copy Desk Staff:
Ray Schrick, city editor
Mary Wolf, assistant
Betty Jane Biggs
Jo Ann Supple
Ox Wilson
N'ight Staff:
Herb Penny, night editor
Dick Shelton, assistant
Joanne Nichols
Marge Curtis
Dorothy Routt
Bill Hilton
Flash Photograph
Demonstrator Due
Here at 3 Friday
Latest methods in flash pho
tography, as it is applied to new3
work and pictorial photography,
will be demonstrated Friday at
3 o’clock in Johnson hall by Earl
Lee Auld, Cleveland, Ohio, pho
tographer.
George H. Godfrey, head of the
University news buerau and in
structor in news photography,
announced that Mr. Auld will
bring complete equipment with
him, and will show all phases of
the work.
A new bulb just developed by
the General Electric company,
which he represents, will also be
demonstrated.
All students in news photogra
phy, photography, and others in
terested are invited to attend.
Mr. Auld has had several years’
experience in news photography,
and has made a special study of
the use of flash bulbs.
Navy Life Shown
tn Coming Movies
Foreign trade classes and the
Propeller club are sponsoring the
eampus showing of three sound
films in 101 Condon hall Thurs
day at 7:30 p.m. The pictures
concern ocean trade and life in
the navy.
The “main feature” is the full
length film recently presented to
the foreign trade department by
the American-Hawaiian Steam
ship company, “Duty to Cargo.”
rhe picture covers modern meth
ods used to handle cargo on
3cean-going vessels. It cost $35,
)00 to produce.
The other films, “With the
Yangtze Patrol” and “South Am
erican Cruise,” show navy man
euvers and cities and scenes
which boys join the navy to see.
BA Major Wins
(Continued from pacje one)
ng even-tempered, and being
irepared.
Dean Victor P. Morris, BA
school head, was re-elected presi
ient of the commerce honorary.
3ob Chilcote, last year’s vice
>resident, was replaced by
Charles Lundquist. Other officers
’or next year, both re-elected,
ire Mrs. Ruth May Thompson,
secretary-treasurer, and Lorene
darguth, initiative chairman.
Initiated at a ceremony pre
ceding the banquet were Miss
lutton and Lundquist. Orville
darcellus, Beta Gamma Sigma
‘freshman of the year,” sched
iled honor guest, was unable to
>e present because of a sudden
llness.
Captain Long
fContinued from page one)
Lecturing for a year in Eng
and before starting his tours in
he United States, Captain Long
las been enthusiastically received
m both continents. His appear
,nce here is under the auspices of
he educational activities board.
Dean Morris Has
Speech Published
In Institute's Eook
An address by Dean Victor P.
Morris of the University of Ore
gon on “Reciprocal Trade Agree
ments Today" presented at the
second day's session of the eigh
teenth Institute of World Af
fairs, held in Riverside, Califor
nia, in December, is included in
the printed copy of the Institute’s
proceedings just published.
All the talks at both morning
and evening sessions, as well as
summarizations of the daily
roundtables during the six-day
meeting of prominent educators,
military officials and internation
al affairs authorities are includ
ed in the book.
The publication has been made
available for all interested, ac
cording to Marc N. Goodnow, ex
ecutive secretary of the institute,
at the University of Southern
California, Los Angeles.
Seven Neophytes
Pledge Honorary
Advertising Group
Seven girls were pledged to
Gamma Alpha Chi, women’s ad
vertising honorary, last night
when active members of Zeta
chapter made the circuit of the
sororities announcing pledging
at the dinner table.
The seven neophytes are Mar
ilyn Marshall, Marilyn Miller,
Bette Workman, Anita Simons,
Lorene Hopkins, Barbara Jean
Tuttle, and Jean Routt.
Dorothy Barclay resigned from
her office of secretary-treasurer
at a recent meeting due to her
marriage, which was solemnized
on Easter Sunday. Emily Tyree,
secretary and Kathleen Brady,
treasurer, will fulfill her duties.
HEIMG
Riotous Action!
“A GIRL, A GUY,
AND A GOB”
with GEORGE MURPHY
and LUCILLE BALL
Two Big Features!
“The Mad Doctor”
with Basil Rathbone, Allen
Drew, John Howard,
Ellen Drew
— plus —
“The Monster and
the Girl”
Ellen Drew - Robert Page
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uy* NT H AT Al.fcrtR
Held Over!
DEANNA DURBIN
in
'Nice Girl?'
with FRANCHOT TONE
and WALTER BRENNAN
Romance!
“Girls Under 21”
with Rochelle Hudson
— plus —
“Dispatch from
Reuters”
with Edw. G. Robinson
Campus Calendar
Order of the O will meet today
at noon in the Sigma Chi nouse
for elections.
Westminster house will have a
potluck dinner and business meet
ing at 6 p.m.
The Dill Pickle club and cabi
net members of the YWCA, will
serve cafeteria lunch today in the
Y bungalow.
Student executive cabinet
members of the YMCA meet at
9 o’clock tonight to discuss a pro
gram for next year and to evalu
ate possible activities.
The ’41 club’s old and new
members will meet in the YWCA
at 7:30 Thursday night to visit
the Eugene vocational school as
the club’s first project of the
term. Members are asked to bring
cars.
Freshman class meeting will
take place Thursday evening.
Time and place will be announced
in tomorrow morning’s Emerald.
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