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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1941)
Oregon Emerald Th* Oregon Duty Emerald, published daily during the college year except Sundays, Monday holidays, and final examination periods by the Associated Students, l mversity Wl Oregon. Subscription rates: $1.25 per term and $5.00 per year. Entered as second jdass matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.___ Represented for national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERV ICE, *NC., college publishers’ representative, 420 Madison Ave., New York -Chicago— iioi •on—Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle. Editorial and Business Offices located on ground door of Journalism building. Phone* -MOO Extension: 362 Editor; 353 New* Office; 359 Sports Office; and 354 Businei* Offices. _ UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Anita BacJcberg, Classified Advertising Bill Peterson. Circulation Manager Man ip— Mary Ellen Smith, Promotion Director Mod Alpaugh, Layout Production Man ager Eileen Millard. Office Manager dLYLE 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 JBtitzer. Emmie Leonard, and Professor George Turnball, adviser.___ le Leonard, Managing Editor Seltzer, News Editor Fred May, Advertising Manager Bob Rogers, National Advertising Mgr. Blue Chips on Golf AEOPLE ask: “Will Oregon win any championships this year?” Duck placings in sports have not been near the Cop. Oregon ranked sixth in football on the coast. Basketball ended with a tie for third between Washington and Oregon. Swimmers placed second. The track and tennis teams show small strength—one or two stars in each carry the load. Coif and baseball remain “favorable'’ question marks. The f>ascbaU team has yet to meet stiff competition. Washington State boasts victories over a professional club—Spokane— .while Washington nicked WSC’s nine twice. Oregon will meet these two powers soon. With golf it is a different proposition. Oregon divoteers fiavc faced Washington, northern division champion last year, and set the Huskies back, 1 DO to l-U. Unfortunately. Oregon ■State golfers made hash of Oregon in a later match, but the anatek was played over the tricky Corvallis course which was wholly unfamiliar to the Ducks. * # * #VRECiON meets Idaho and Washington State here Friday and Saturday which will tell the story of the Inland Km d»ire combined strength and of its threat to Oregon-'VV asliington traditional golf supremacy. Captain-Coach Boh Kngelke considers it a fluke that Oregon JState upset Oregon. “The northern division will be between Oregon and Washington.” This year the division playoff is shot over the course at Pullman, Washington. Oregon will be comparatively unfamiliar with it—two men have played over it. Washington on the other hand plays WSC in a dual meet at Pullman before the d i v is Iona l .get-t oget her. Remembering the Oregon victory over Washington and dis counting the Oregon State “fluke.” Oregon would seem the favored team to annex the northern division golf champion ship.—K.C. History Is a Mirror JLriSTORY is, of course, the most important subject. It is the mirror to the human race, -lust as one looks in a mirror 4o see his latest idea of himself, one looks at history to observe Mankind's latest idea of mankind. There are those who argue that what lies ahead is all that /•natters, and that history as a subject of study is dry and dull tmd pointless in these swift days. There is no time to preen womanishly before a mirror. History is sometimes tediously loaded with spearheads, bridgeheads, copperheads, and all-out aid. The infinity of bat <Ues, causes, treaties, effects, and memorable generals is be wildering. But at the same time there is solace in this tangled complexity of history. It is comforting to feel that man’s latest /idea of himself is not utterly alienated from all his .preceding /ideas. The reflections of history are still alive. Yesterday 4s gone, but it is not dead. Nor are they dead to whom yester day was as confusing as today is to us. * *■ * •JYIIE comfort in history does not lie in the fact that an identical situation may arise, and be solved through former experience. The comfort in history lies, strangely enough, in ■the realization that while the complexities cannot be solved with completeness, we are no more inadequate to face them l|har our forebears. Wo may even draw some strength from 4heir weakness. There is no reason to expect that their faults •should make us perfect. One historian, in finishing up his volume, felt the need to wind up several centuries of struggle with this eneourage ♦ridnt: ‘Tf the dangers which confront us on every hand are .'fyreat, so also are our opportunities. Let us then march forward with the assurance that, commanding courageous hearts and wakeful minds, there is no need to fear.'' That is a large statement. The thing cannot really be so easily put aside. But it is heartening to look into history's mirror and see those who have also had much to fear. \N e are 4iot alone.—1\K. International Side Show Jean Harper, one of my more obnoxious readers, made a special point of complimenting me on Cummings Saturday 3 fciae show, knowing full well that it was written by a sophomore for the sophomore edition. (Take a bow, Jeff Kit chen). But I will have my revenge by doing a char ter sketch of him one of these days. Belore getting down to the more important bus iness of Churchill’s Sunday speech, here is— CHARACTER SKETCH NO. 2 Yellow hair and a cute little wave Are his outstanding characteris tics, But his interests lie in the field of the dance— He excels in balletistics. Now this young man Has a Grecian pan And sideburns most poetical; He bangs on the keys With the greatest of ease But his emotional gamut is alpha betical. (from A to, let’s not be unkind about it, say E). A Great Speech Anyone listening to the radio last Sunday noon must have known after Churchill’s opening phrases that they were hearing one of the world's greatest speeches. Students read the Phil ippics of Demosthenes against the Macedonian conqueror, they study the tirades of the great Ro man orator, was it Cato?, against Carthage, and the time will prob ably come when school boys will carefully analyze the orations of Churchill and Hitler, one against the other. Roosevelt is not in the same class. Churchill Sunday was in fine form. Even I, an isolationist and a peace-monger, felt the skin on the back of my neck tingle at his glorious phrases, his masterly use of antithesis, his bitter in vective, his acid irony. The Choice Quotes Before me is a copy of the speech with about half the sen tences underlined. I wish I had room for it all, but here are some of the choicer quotes. Mussolini is “this whipped jackal" who “comes frisking up at the side of the German tiger with yelps not only of appetite— that could be understood—but even of triumph.” Hitler is “that bad man” who has been “creeping and worming his way steadily forward, doping and poisoning and pinioning one after another Hungary, Rumania, and Bulgaria.” The German peo ple are “70,000,000 malignant Huns.” A Few More Phrases The German blockade is “only merciless murder and marauding over wide and indiscriminate areas.” “Hitler and his foul gang and even fouler doctrines” must be destroyed. Churchill “views with sorrow and anxiety much that is happen ing in Europe and Africa and in Asia”; the Libyan forces have “sustained a vexatious and dam aging defeat”; the people of Eng land are in a “long, stern, scowl ing valley” which Churchill feels (Continued, on fiage five) In the Editor's Mail Letter to the Editor: I attended the “old" frosh class meeting- last Thursday night. This was the first meeting it has held since fall term. There must have been almost 50 ardent class members present. Tige Payne, ASUO prexy, at tended the gathering and gave a very interesting ( ?) talk to the “almost 50." He discussed the “black eye” given to the Univer sity by the class of '44 as a whole. He said, “due to the slow ac tion of your class and the stub bornness of the Majority class, this has come about." Speaking -of the “stubbornness" we have supposedly shown, I would like to remind all interested of the committee appointed by Jim Bur ness to clear up the situation fall term. Says Is Authority As I was a member of that committee I speak with author ity. The three independent mem bers of that committee offered four or five plans to consolidate the class—the three Greek mem bers promptly vetoed these, which was their privilege, but, they offered or proposed no plans whatsoever! Also, Mr. Payne said that the Majority class was created for political purposes only that were hidden behind a lot of “false ideals." Well, Tige, if those “false ideals” weren’t prevalent throughout the United States to day, we'd probably be calling our president “Adolf,” and he would n't be a president! Says Activity Value Gone You strongly advocated adop tion of the 10-cent class card in your speech, Tige. A plan such as this takes all of the “activity val ue” out of even the present class card. And you said that it would increase activities, tsk, tsk, tsk. As an example; if the present class had used this plan, it would now have the impressive amount of $80 in its treasury collected over three terms. And, as around $200 have already been spent— well! Also, far more frosh class cards are sold each.year than any of the other classes’ class cards. There’d hardly be enough money in the class treasury to print elec tion ballots. I Was a Member You told the class members how this plan was devised and also you spoke of the other two plans that were also offered by committee members. I was a member of “Tige’s class card committee,” and at the first meet ing I was as far as I know the only Independent there. Of course this was all right because I was, and still am, a freshman and quite capable of matching arguments with the four class presidents, the president of the law school, and other notables. However, that was changed and what I didn’t like was the presentation you made of the plan John Cavanagh and I presented. Our plan revolved around selling activity cards with no voting stigma attached and having activities for which these activity cards could be used. Per haps you had just forgotten that in memorizing the dubiously “good" points of the 10-cent class card. Question and answer game: I hear that Tige is now quite in terested in the location of the Student Union building. 1. For students of the Univer sity. 2. For .? Pick any one of the two. Respectfully, —Chuck Woodruff. The Passing Parade By DOC' HENRY In competition with the ABAN DONED BEDOUINS, who are protesting (a lot of good it's do ing them too) about the monopo lizing technique being used by the news bureau and the J unior Weekend committee on their re spective girl friends ... a new organization has originated on the campus like the genii coming out of the bottle in the movie pix “Thief of Bagdad”—principal ly a group composed of Genii Brown, Cullen Murphy, Lou Tor geson, Jack Saltzman, Buck Buchwach (and his step ladder) called the AMIABLE ALADDI ANS . . . The ALADDIANS mem bership pledge reads as follows: To ease the BEDOUINS’ con science, we five have pledged to devote every minute of our spare time to taking care of the “lonely hearts,” consisting of Queen An nabelle, Princesses Burt, Angell, Todd, and Neu. . . . Shots here and there on the campus . . . That yellar convertible of Sig ma Kappa’s Marjorie Hoffman is really a honey, it was a surprise gift fi'om her pappy and mammy . . . Mel Davis, chef at the Siber ian and Marge Taylor, Irish house, “are that w'ay about each other” (courtesy of Winchell) . . . Phi Delt triangle, involving Chuck Church and Bill Bernard who alternately date Mary-Belle Martin, Theta freshman (this item in defiance to Janet Morris’ statement that the Theta’s don’t do anything to hit the column). I also understand that practical ly all of the Theta’s are having their fortunes told and that Nancy Latourette was informed by the sees-all that she would be married by next summer . . . also Betty Bathbun, another Theta took Carl Little’s ATO pin . . . Chuck Powers, another hotel man hung his cross on Betty Johnson of Hendricks hall . . . Bob Chilcote, of the aforemen tioned hotelmen gave his pin to Betty Whiteside, DG, for safe keeping . . . Betty Fletcher, Al pha O, was pinned by Art Jacob sen, Pi Kap . . . Cis Steel, DG, takes Johnn Powers’ Fiji pin back again . . . another little The ta item Pat Tortellotte and Hersh Patton, Sigma Chi, foot baller, are seen together quite a lot . . , there have been so many pin plantings this weekend, espe cially with so many house dances, that I've run out of terms for announcing them so will just say that Wary Wright, Gamma Phi, is now wearing Sigma Nu Kenny Oliphant’s five-armed star . . . This week’s edition of Union Now will really be a honey and will probably have to be handled with asbestos gloves . . . Joe Gurley is writing a little story about John Cavanagh, who is Joe’s hottest opponent on the campus . . . another little Theta item . . . the girls almost mobbed Theta Chi’s Pat Wood last week at an exchange dessert because they thought he was just “dar ling” . . . Joe’s Shine Shop, has become a reading emporium for the campus, especially for Joe Gurley, Kappa Sig, who has a continued story in practically all of the weekly mags. Girls, when you call for Joe for that Mortar Board date and he isn’t at the KZ house he can be found there . . . and I can assure you he has n’t a date as yet.