Oregon p<§ Emerald
The Oregon Daily Emerald, published daily during the college year except Sunday*,
Mondays, holi'iays, and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University
of Oregon. Subscription rates: $1.25 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered as second
class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. ___
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UPPER BUSINESS STAFP
ajum Wackijerg, Classified Advertising
Manager
Moo Alpaugh, Layout Production Man*
Bill reterson, circulation manager
Mary Ellen Smith, Proinotiiuii Director
Eileen Millard. Office Manager
*.YLE M. NELSON, Editor
* ASSOCIATE EDITORS
JAMES W. FROST, Busjnesi Manager
Hal Olney, Heleu Angell
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le Leonard, Managing Editor
Stitzer, News Editor
Fred May, Advertising Manager
Bob Rogers, National Advertising Mgr.
Editorial Board: Roy Vernstrora, Pat Erickson, Helen Angell, Harold Olney, Kent
ttitzer. Timraie Leonard, and Professor George Turnboll, adviser.
Fat Erickson, Women’*
Editor
•oh Flavelle, Co-Sport*
Editor
Ken Christianson, Co-Sport*
Editor
UPPER NEWS STAFF
Ray Schrick, Ass’t Manag
ing Editor
Betty Jane Bigg), A>s’t
News Editor
Wes Sullivan, Ass't New*
Editor
Corrine Wignes, Executir#
Secretary
Mildred Wilson, Exchange
Editor
Vote Again
JJT'S unfortunate that the last election was called off. It’s
unfortunate, but it’s true. Today the students will again
bo asked to go to the polls to express their desires in the race
student body president and executive committee positions.
It is just as important today that EVERY student vote as
•1. was last Thursday, It may take a little more effort, but it is
worth it in the long run. It is the only sure way of seeming
good government.
Many people claim, and with good reason—that the evils of
jrtudent government stem not so much from bloc politics, but
from the student himself. Smugness, laxity, and apathy are
real causes of bad government.
It is, therefore, very important that YOU vote.
The ‘Big Stick’ Strikes
jfORMEl! President Theodore Roosevelt's famous maxim,
“Speak softly and carry a big stick,’’ finds a close ad
here :t in Edwin N. Atherton, Pacific coast conference commis
sion Atherton, for all his genfle and well-modulated voice,
iifrn ’k swiftly and sternly with his “ineligibility stick’’ on 22
athletes l-riday, among whom were six Oregon players.
Tf i' blow came at an inopportune moment for the AVebfoots.
Four football players were clipped from the Oregon roster—
jut;L ‘wo days after spring practice, after the same four had
fitted into the Oregon football scheme of things for next year.
Jt was expected that Atherton would release his special
athletic communique, but that it would come the first of April.
*The long wait merely prolonged the mental agony for northern
division and .Stanford coaches. It upset their best-laid plans.
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T P's FORTUNATELY, although Oregon -was lilt the hardest
by the eonferenee ineligibility rulings with Stanford, it
siilf isn’t the school, but rather the athlete who suffers the
«ao;d. The sehool eau always rely on other athletes, for the
world is full of players.
The youth, oh the other hand, must give up his fraternal
and other affiliations which he has made during his sehool year.
He must leave the sehool in order to compete athletically'.
Wherever he may go in the eonferenee, there is bound to be a
4»figm,. attached to him—however slight. There will be the
Reeling among some that the ineligible athlete is in his present
.flight through sonm fault of his own, although an over-anxious _
alumnus is to blame.
lieeausc of this uprooting of an athlete’s friendships and
affiliations, because of this inevitable feeling on the part of
some, the rulings are working against the athlete, rather than
curtailing of a school’s proselyting measures. The athletes will
•recover from the blow, but at the same time it causes them
temp nary' embarrassment.—K.C.
Many Thanks, Jupe
^TpIiKUE are those, albeit mistakenly of course, who will
openly scoff when it i> suggested that the Oregon Emerald
Jmd anything to do with the sunshine, and the clear skies, and
the cloudless days that blessed the campus over the Junior
,Weekend celebration. There are those, albeit mistakenly of
^course, who will pooh-pooh the suggestion that Jupe Flavius
could be deterred by a college rah-rah newspaper, filled with
-goa.dp columns and spicy social details, and perchance, once
a while, with school news.
Put not down here at the ‘‘shack,” where the freshman
4rep n’t >rs laboriously type away' at their curious masterpieces,
the copy' editors in moleskins cross out a word here and
the with worldly knowledge; down at the shack where the
Nwriters sit ami dream of covering a world series or a
Fowl encounter, or perchance a Joe Louis prizefight,
a
Counterpoint...
By GENE EDWARDS
It is a peculiar attitude for me
to assimilate . . . that which feel3
that we are but “pulling Britain’s
chestnuts out of the fire” by our
present active moves to alleviate
the distress of our sister nation.
It seems all the more peculiar to
me in view' of the Anglo-Amer
ican tradition of friendship which
has been such a very real factor
in past years. To ignore a pres
ent need or to refuse help at this
time is such a breach of common
faith as to be practically inde
fensible. But such is the isola
tionist’s plea.
What if Britain’s throat is cut ?
What if her lifeline is throttled
and her people are subjugated?
Such a totally callous attitude
might be thinly rationalized if
through some foolishness of her
own Britain had brought these
things upon herself; but in an
aggression motivated solely by
greed and the lust for pow'er can
there be any excuse for standing
by as morbid spectators at a
scene of ruthless rape ?
To Blame?
Whether he were to blame or
not. if a personal friend got into
trouble who among U3 would
shrug it off as outside our sphere
of responsibility? I doubt that
even the most rabid isolationist
would be so lacking in personal
loyalties as to allow' such a tning
in the case of an individual
friend, but yet that is the very
essence of what some would ad
vocate as a national policy.
Britain’s “imperialism” is cen
sured as being something naus
eous and blameful and her
“world-wide commercial inter
ests” are mentioned in the same
tone as we might use in referring
to the possession of illicit pro
perties. What of our equally
widespread commercial interests ?
Are we not in our own way just
as imperialistic as Great Britain?
Capitalistic nations, both of us,
our commercial interests are
what have made us what we are
and, since this is true, these inter
ests are certainly worth defend
ing against totalitarian ma
rauders.
Barring even the sentiments of ’
friendship and international loy
alty, there is still a very sound
economic basis for preserving the
common interests of the Anglo
American sphere for in fighting
to save Britain we are fighting
to save our own skins. Greed and
avarice are never satisfied and if
the axis gains dominate Europe
there will be no means as long as
there are further boundaries to
eliminate.
Ideologies
This is not merely a fight of
guns and ammunition. It is a
battle of ideologies. The insidious
germ of world domination has
moved others to attempt to scale
the pinnacle of absolute power
and it is alive today, regenerated
in awesome ferocity and in a
mental fever of desire. We cannot
hope to live in a world dominated
by paranoia.
■where the editorial scribblers start out in true Pulitzer award
winning' fashion and end up trying to stall for three more lines
to fill up the page.
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j^TO. down here at the journalism school a new feeling of
pride has swept through the corridors. True we have
gained All-American honors with the Emerald for the past
four years; true the Emerald has contributed some outstanding
writers to the press services, and the local papers, and not too
infrequently to .the big metropolitan dailies. But to earnestly
ask for sunshine in the editorial columns—to influence Jupiter
to cease for three whole days . . . that is an achievement not
to be so lightly dismissed.
To the unbelievers, to those who would hastily dismiss the
entire phenomenon, for in truth it is that, let us remind of
these pertinent details:
1. Verily it was showering Sunday, and Monday, Tuesday,
and even Wednesday of the week prior to our Junior cele
bration.
2. The Emerald very humbly asked the showers to abstain, to
cease and desist, just for Junior Weekend, you understand.
3. Thursday, on the opening day of Junior Weekend it
stopped raining, and the sun came out, and the warm rays of
Old Sol caressed the campus even as a mother welcoming an
only sou home on vacation from college.
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^^ND verily, for tlie entire three days of -the Junior class
events not a drop of rain fell from the heavens, nor did a
single cloud peek out to cause the least consternation among
beaming mothers, nor did the weather man (who had predicted
rain for the whole weekend) manage to get in any of his sly
tricks.
Sunday at 2 p.m., just an hour after the last official event
had started, the rains started sprinkling, just enough for a
warning mind you. Then Jupe ceased, and the guests packed,
and down to the trains went our weekend visitors, tired but
satisfied.
Monday it rained. Hard. But no one minded, least of all
Junior Weekend heads, who could do naught but look up with
thanks in their hearts. Our prayers had been answered, and
the Oregonian, which aided our youthful efforts by reprinting
the first editorial and thus adding its powerful editorial voice
to our pleadings, had helped Old Jupe Pluvius to change his
mind, for which the Portland paper gets the Emerald’s whole
hearted thanks.
And we promise you we will be careful of what we ask fox*—
we don’t intend to abuse such a revered journalistic privi
lege.—B.B.
And then there was the Emerald headline: “Nominations
Divert Krosh.” We always thought campus politics were
little more than a diversion. i
With authority and conviction,
Cordell Hull’s words ring with
ominous truth in my ears:
“It makes a difference who
wins, the difference whether
we stand with our backs to the
wall with the other four con
tinents against us and the high
seas lost ... or whether we
keep our place in an orderly
world.”
Addenda:
On his recent axis “grand tour”
Foreign Minister Matsuoka de
pended mainly upon ENGLISH in
his conversations.
Salve
Isolationist salve: At a Jamaica
racetrack Peace day came in a
winner paying 28 to 1. The jockey
was LINDBERGH!
Hitler’s indoctrination of some
650 selected youths from the oc
cupied countries is supervised in
a special Munich academy of
“kultur” and “the new order” by
one Alfred ROSENBERG!
Contemplating the convoy
scene, a Scripps-Howard wit has
been quick to put a little black
mustache on the “Face that
launched a Thousand Ships!”
At the recent dedication of
Woodrow Wilson’s birthplace
President Roosevelt uttered these
provocative words in speaking of
the last wartime president:
“He taught that democracy
could not survive in isolation.
We applaud his judgment and
his faith.”
Selah!
If
it
From
All Sides
By MILDRED WILSON
One day when they were in a
mood to complain, Everton Doon
and John Conard from the Uni
versity of Kansas, wrote to four
tobacco companies describing the
defects of their cigarettes.
Their story was that at the din
ner table, before important guests,
they pulled out a pack of cigar
ettes of that brand and pulled
forth a weed. Lo and behold, be
fore their very eyes it crumbled
into nothing, spilling over the
tablecloth and making everyone
titter, much to the embarrass
ment of the complainants.
As an added corny touch they
enclosed “the wrapper from the
defective weed’’ with the note,
“Perhaps this will serve for iden
tification purposes.”
Friday they received a cour
teous answer from P. Lorillard,
maker of Old Golds, apologizing
for the incident and enclosing
three packages of cigarettes.
Friday afternoon the Chester
field representative came around
with diplomacy on his tongue,
tried to sweeten them up on his
product, and left a whole carton
of Chesterfields.
Now they are considering com
plaining to the Packard company.
—Daily Kansan.
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Deoidated to a Roommate
We’re broommates
Dust us two
We sweep together.
—The Utah Chronicle
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Realism in its purest form may
be found in an item from Ham
ilton college. A Hamilton student
wrote a thesis entitled “My
Roommate Gives Me a Haircut.’*
Clinging to the paper the in
structor received from the stu
dent were several small, closely
clipped hairs.
—The Hamiltonian.