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Problems With Progress
•TOMORROW is election day. It’s the first ASTIO vote in
which every member of the student body is entitled to
voice bis opinion on student affairs; for this spring there’ll
be no “poll tax" in the form of an ASUO card, l'root of regis
tration is the only requirement.
Sueli a step is certainly one in the direction of a more demo
cratic, a more representative student government for the Lni
vcrsity of Oregon. Hut this great increase in the student vote
brings problems with progress. And the greatest problem is
that the V shack is going to be more crowded than ever.
Certain regulations have been laid down by '\ ice-President
John Cavanagh and hi.s election board in order to insure a
smoother-running ballotting.
In the first place, the polls will be open from eight o’clock
until six o'clock instead of the regular nine to three schedule.
Such an arrangement, they believe, will facilitate voting by
spreading it out over a longer period of time.
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AS soon as any student has voted, he will be expected to
leave the polls. No electioneering or ‘‘hanging around
will be permitted by the board member on duty each hour.
Educational activities tickets will be cheeked closely with a
list of students registered in school this term secured from the
registrar’s office, so that inconsistencies may he reduced to the
minimum.
It had been suggested that two polls at opposite ends of the
campus be installed to take care of the increased vote. But
the election board members feel that they can handle efficiently
the added voters at the single poll. They depend on a coopera
tive student body to carry out their promise speedily and
thoroughly.
Parade of Opinion
By Associated Collegiate Press
(Editor's note: The following article first appeared in the Col
gate Maroon in a column, “The Hill and the Plain,” by James C.
Cleveland. It has since been called a significant item in judging
the current temper of American college youth.)
Out of the revelry of the senior class beer party last Friday night
there has come an idea too tragic for laughter, too symbolic to be
overlooked, too clever to be ignored. The idea came from the brilliant
mind of Bob Blackmore, Phi Bete and draftee-elect for the month
ofter a date that once spelled for him the beginning of life and a
chance for happiness and success.
The idea has met with approval of varying degrees from every
senior I have talked to. The idea has had suggested revisions yet still
stands original, penetrating and overwhelmingly expressive. The idea
is not bitterly partisan, nor hopelessly resigned. It has the saving
grace of acceptance yet at the same time poignant indictment. The
idea voices college youth of 3941 as I have never heard it voiced
l)ofore. Tt is college youth of 1941.
The idea has to do with our senior class gift. It is simply that the
gift this year shall be a sum of money to erect at a suitable occasion
a fitting memorial to the first member ox our class killed in the war.
Added suggestions have poured in. For example it has been sug
gested the memorial be to the first conscientious objector thrown in
jail. Others have said it should be to all members of the class killed.
Restrictions have been suggested the member must be killed in action,
or perhaps in this hemisphere. Perhaps the money shouldn’t be wasted
and some fund started but named for the first casualty. And so it
goes.
Bob Blackmore, who started it all, shrugs his shoulders. He is still
going to be called up in July for an army that he feels may well be
misused. He started the idea he says as a joke. Many people would
like to think that’s all it is, a joke. Perhaps administration pressure
will reduce the idea to just that, a joke.
But to me and many, many more, the idea is not a joke. It is college
youth of 1941, making a humble and unheeded plea to what is left of
sanity in the country today.
International Side Show
By RIDGELY CUMMINGS
During the past two years
there has been a concerted as
sault on the theory of isolation
by some of the best minds in the
country, as well
as feeble pot-shots
from those nu
merous gentry
who crowd the
tail-board of any
band-wagon and
who can best be
described as mem
bers of the luna
PHIlr tic fringe.
Cummings From the Knox
and Stimson war-mongers in the
president’s cabinet, who exposed
their hands early in the game and
since then have been blandly sit
ting back pretending that their
ace in the hole is only a deuce
and that they wouldn’t think of
using an American expeditionary
force, all the way up the line,
and it is UP, not down, to Edna
St. Vincent Millay, the poets and
pundi-ts are apologizing for inter
vention.
There Must Be a Fire
This concerted lambasting of
the isolationist attitude leads one
to wonder. Where there is so
much water gushing out of so
many well-directed hoses, there
must be some fire. There must
be some merit in isolationism,
otherwise there wouldn’t be so
many people in high places grow
ing indignant about it. These
matadors of the typewriter, the
cinema, and the radio don’t or
dinarily waste their energies tilt
ing at straw houses and stuffed
bulls.
It would be the height of pre
sumption and intolerance on this
writer’s part to attack all these
exponents of open, outright,
armed intervention in Europe's
war on grounds of insincerity. I
am sure many of them, perhaps
even most of them, are absolutely
honest when they say they be
lieve that the United States can
not continue a.3 a nation as long
as five or six thousand miles
away a man named Hitler rules
a conglomeration of peoples oc
cupying an area roughly equal
to the U.S.
Equal Areas
The nations of Europe, band
boxes packed full of diverse and
mutually distrustful races, are
wedged together on the continent
in an are of 3,844,000 square
miles. Continental United States,
in which we are primarily inter
ested, sprawls over 3,026,789
square miles. There are in addi
tion 716,649 square miles of U.S.
possessions, but we won’t count
them.
Now when the situation is
studied from the point of view
of geography, one wonders why
there is so much excitement. It
would be as difficult and as w'ell
nigh impossible for Europe’s le
gions to successfully invade the
U. S. as we will soon find out it
is for us to successfully invade
Europe.
The moulders of American
thought are much better aware
of these facts than am I. But
they are using a three-fold prop
aganda attack on the American
public to prepare us for war—
not a war of defense, but a war
of intervention.
Three-Way Attack
What are the three prongs of
the attack? Answer: 1. fear: 2.
greed; 3. idealism.
They are trying to scare us
into fighting a “preventative”
war because if we don't, they tell
us, then 20 years from now we’ll
have to fight a “real" one. But
my friends, if we go into this one
it will be ••real" enough too, and
who can prophesy what can hap
pen 20 years from now? Men die
and ideas change and nothing is
certain but death and taxes.
The appeal to greed is simple.
We are told that ten per cent of
our national income depends on
foreign trade and Hitler is going
to take it away from us. I don’t
know whether this is true or not.
Europe needs South America’s
raw materials (we don’t for we
have plenty of beef and grain
and get our nitrates out of the
air) and South America needs in
dustrial products. We are an in
dustrial nation and export these
industrial products all right, but
we don’t want to buy back South
America’s w'heat and beef. So
our only alternative is to take
credit, and when we have enough
credit we practically own the con
tinent. Then what? On the other
hand the Latin Americas can
profitably trade with Europe be
cause they mutually need each
others products.
We Live on 90 Per Cent
Even if this analysis all wrong,
and I don’t think it is although
it is very much simplified, it is
still true that we are throwing
away in shot and shell much more
than the 10 per cent of the na
tional income we are supposed to
be fighting for if w'e go to war.
So the greed appeal won’t stand
up.
In idealism the interventionists
have somqthing. That is their
strongest point, sound in many
aspects, and is not to be dis
missed in a paragraph.
It will be dealt with in a later
column, but right now I’d like
to close with a question: Do you
think the Morgans and the Mel
lons, the Wall street speculators,
and the munition makers are ac
tuated by idealism? And if not
then why are they singing the
song of the holy crusade ?
From
All Sides
By MILDRED WILSON
A junior at Harvard is paying
part of his expenses by acting as
a “fire-eater." A popular attrac
tion at Boston parties, his special
ty is setting fire to his hands and
letting the flames creep up his
arms.
“It really only tickles,” he said,
“though most people think you
are burning to death. I do it all
with chemicals.”
Swallowing fire, he said, is just
like breathing warm air—if done
properly.
—The Harvard Crimson.
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No plain teas are given by the
psychology department at the
University of Arizona but “Blitz
teas,” “Black-out” teas, etc.
Their lastest—“D-teas” honoring
the students who managed to
keep off the “D” list.
—The Arizona Tribune.
❖ $ 355
Larry Blair, at the University
of Kansas, hit a new high on ef
ficiency in advertising campaign
class in an investigation on the
advertising of Macy’s department
store in New York City. He sent
Macy’s a long list of specific
questions, but forgot to keep a
copy of the list.
The store sent back “yes” and
“no” answers, but kept the ques
tions. Blair was reduced to mak
ing his class report in monosyl
lables.
—The Daily Kansan.
The University of North Caro
lina's 39 CAA student pilots have
amassed a total of 1,640 flying
hours without an accident and
only four minor mishaps.
Shop Talk
at the
WaxWorks
By BILL NORENE
A deal in the fire some time
was completed recently when Roy
Eldridge, known to the trade a3
“Little Jazz,” joined Gene Krupa.
Formerly the leader of his own
orchestra, Roy bought his con
tract and joined Krupa at Provi
dence, Rhode Island.
Considered one of the outstand
ing trumpeters in the nation,
Eldridge will be featured as a
soloist and in Krupa’s small band
within the band.
First name band to go to South
America will be Eddie Duchin.
The Duchin orchestra is set for
eight weeks at the Copacabana
in Rio de Janeiro, starting in
June.
Martin Newest
Newest band to cut “Inter
mezzo” is ’Freddie Martin for
Bluebird. Clyde Rogers does the
vocal in that and “Nice Dreamia’
Baby” on the other side.
Other orchestras to wax the
number include Clyde Lucas,
Charlie Spivak, Benny Goodman,
Guy Lombardo, Toscha Seidel,
Marie Greene, the Decca Salon
orchestra, Wayne King, and
Woody Herman. It was first fea
tured in the motion picture of
the same name.
Good Man
It takes a man made of sterner
stuff to stand up under the bar
rage of trouble that Tommy Dor
sey has encountered in the last
few weeks. Vocalist Frank Sin
atra left the band and then re
turned and now appears satisfied.
Next Manager Bobby Burns,
with Dorsey for several years,
quit. The U. S. government
through the treasury deparment
approached T. D. for $80,000 for
income tax which the government
claims Dorsey owes. Final straw
was that his wife was suing him
for divorce and alimony.
Charlie Spivak returns to the
Glen Island Casino May 21. . . .
Benny Goodman will broadcast
for Old Gold next fall over a 100
station NBC network. . . . Benny
is 20 pounds heavier than when
he had his operation last summer.
Campus Calendar
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gained by notifying Fred May,
next year’s business manager, by
May 8. Written applications must
be in by May 9 at 5 o’clock.
YMCA’s student executive cab
inet meets tonight in the “Y”
hut at 9.
Order of the O will meet today
at noon at the Sig Ep house.
Westminster house will have a
potluck supper at 6 p.m. Students
are invited.
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