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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1941)
Oregon W Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald, published daily during the college year except Sunday*, Mondays, holidays, and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University u' Oregon. Subscription rates: $1.25 per terra and $1.00 per year. Entered as second Clau matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. _ Represented for national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, ■NC., college publishers’ representative, 420 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago— Bos ton—Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle.__ Editorial and Business Offices located on ground floor of Journalism building. Phones • 100 Extension: 382 Editor; 353 News Office; 359 Sports Office; and 354 Susmess Office*. f<YLE M. NELSON, Editor JAMES W. FROST, Business Manager ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Hal Olney, Helen Angell Jimmie Leonard, Managing Editor Vent Stitzer, News Editor Fred May. Advertising Manager Bob Rogers, National Advertising Mgr. Editorial Board: Roy Vernstrom, Pat Erickson, Helen Angell, Harold Olney, Kent Jftitser. Timraie Leonard, and Professor George Turnbull, adviser. Fat Erickson, Women’s Editor Bob Flavelle, Co-Sports Editor Ken Christianson, Co-Sports Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Ray Schrick, Ass’t Manag ing Editor Betty Jane Biggs, Ass’t News Editor Wes.Sullivan, Ass't News Editor Corrine Wtgne*, Executive Secretary Mildred Wilson, Exchange Editor UPPER BUSINESS STAFF AalU Backberg, Classified Advertising Manager Moa AI pa ugh. Layout Production Man Her Bill Peterson, Circulation Manager Mary Ellen Smith, Promotiidh Director Eileen Millard, Office Manager Toil and Trouble J|N a few short weeks the elass of ’41 will don Ion", black robes, parade briefly before the assembled campus and En queue citizenry, and the 1940-41 school year will have drawn to a close. It has been a good, and interesting, year in Uni versity history in almost every respect. One of the most unusual aspects of campus life during the ;jpast year has been the extraordinary amount of political strife and bickering. In the past, political activity has been pretty Well confined to a short, brisk fight during spring term when IA8UO and class officers are elected. Of course, there are fresh* wan class elections during fall term but they are relatively unimportant except, perhaps, as a barometer. But this year was different. Political factions squared off at each other during freshman elections and didn’t stop slugging aIL year. The soul of tlie fight lay in the class card issue. Startling development followed startling development—even to the creation of a new freshman class, composed of the dis satisfied faction. The year-long battle ended in one of tiie hottest political campaigns in University history. But now the year, with all its political activity and emotion alism, is over. The political strife of the past year is. at present, “deader than a dodo.” There is no reason why the summer months should simply he a truce. A lasting peace can, and should be, achieved. A little tolerance on the part of everyone and sincere cooperation with the officers who have been elected will go far toward mending the breech.—11.(X The Sun Shines Bright npiIESK are trying times . . . Not because Greece has folded, and Hitler is still protect ing the small neutrals, and England is having a tough time cleaning up the debris in bombed suburbs. Not because draft .numbers are rapidly being called, and little army trucks are buzzing through Eugene streets, and ♦>ig league baseball players instead of holding out are being proselyted by Uncle Sam. Not because the Webfoot baseball team is having such a lough time trying to win games in Idaho and Seattle where Mr. Hobson is being ‘‘egged on”—nor because Mr. Atherton is watching over us with very careful eyes and seeing that *iOti.e of our athletes are found guilty of being offered a free (breakfast or something almost as dishonorable. Not because our money is running very low now. and our /oiks for some ungodly reason refuse to send any more, and a!!, the clothes we brought down here fall term have so mys teriously vanished after being loaned to our “best buddies.” Nay, none of these. It’s the sun . . . hot . . . burning . . . during classes . . . V’hil * we’re studying . . . and we can’t skip, and take a cooling plunge in the mill-race, and sip on a coke, and smile at some *'‘t coed, and listen to soft strains from a handy portable. 'Cause final exams are sneering at us from behind the next corner. \ os. indeed, these AUK trying times.—B.B. This Collegiate World By ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS Without a cent of cost for repairs, a watch which Dr. James j Dy.son, Colgate university professor, is wearing keeps per fect time although it lay for a week beneath the waters of the •‘Atlantic ocean. Dr. Dyson lost the watch in Boston bay in Mo,ember and a week later it was fished out by an angler vi ,1 thought he had hooked a crab. The watch was finally tivu-ed to Dr. Dyson, former Lafayette college track star, yh ougk a lVan relays inscription on the back. ROUND TWO COMIN' UP r International Side Show Comes the last Emerald of the year. Comes the time of good bye’s to the old and greetings to the new. Comes the time of final Cummings exams and flurry and bustle and graduation and commencement. Comes the time to step out of the wadded cocoon of college life, that glorious haze through which the harsh reali ties of the work a-day world are appraised with the emphasis upon theory rather than practice. Comes the time when the ma turing silkworm ventures out looking hungrily for a mulberry leaf. Comes the search for a job and a niche in society. We Who Are to Die Comes the time of valedictories, and it had been my intention to make this last column a valedic tory in the mood of “morituri te salutat”—we who are about to die salute you. There is much to be said for this attitude, but in all honesty I doubt if the fatalistic gladiator spirit is the complete expression of the mood of the class of 1941. With the draft and the war hanging over our heads, the atti tude of many a senior is one of resignation to the inevitable. But attitudes are complex and not to be completely expressed in a phrase. The class of 1941 is young, and hope is an essential attribute of youth. Resignation there may be, and confusion and bewilderment and a glowing cynicism, but the whole liquid is thoroughly in fused with the leaven of hope, Oregon Emerald Friday Advertising Stuff: Warren Roper, manager Betty Lou Allegre Norma Baker Elizabeth Edmunds Marilyn Marshall Peggy Magill Mari lee Margason Marlyn Miller Lucille Reed Maribeth Rodway Betty Sehalock Anita Simons Don Brinton Phil Burco Night Staff: Fritz Timmen. night editor Ruth Jordan, assistant Dorothy Routt Copydesk Staff: Wes Sullivan, city editor Bernie Engel, assistant Ray Schriek, assistant Elsie Brownell Francis Tuckwiler Joanne Nichols Herb Penny Don Ross Marjorie Major Yeva Peterson Doris Jones and youth would not be youth and America would not be Amer ica if this were not so. Roosevelt speaks on May 27, and before the diplomas are hand ed around congress may be de bating or may have already passed the convoy measure. Perhaps a Repeal In fact the strategy may be, not to introduce a measure call ing for convoys, but to try to repeal the neutrality law which prohibits American ships from entering war zones. You will hear much talk of “freedom of the seas,” the same freedom of the seas that greased the skids for our entry into the last world war. The idea is that with the neu trality law repealed, and Secre tary Knox tossed out a feeler the other day, then American ships could legally transport war car goes to Liverpool and London and it would be up to the Amer ican navy to protect them. This would not only release the Brit ish navy to concentrate on the Mediterranean, but would release British merchantmen to serve (i the less hazardous routes to Aus tralia, New Zealand, India, South Africa. Before the graduating seniors pack McArthur court this may be in effect, though I hope it won't and think it may take the administration a few more months to bring public opinion up to its own war-like pitch. A World of Work At any rate, the class of ’41 is entering a world which will ex pect and require them to “do their duty.’’ It is a certain thing that that duty will be to “fight for Britain and democracy.” The “American crusade” is un der way and has been gathering momentum for several years. In some 125 columns during the last school year I have been saying in one way or another that I don't believe the crusade is “Ameri ican” because I am afraid we shall lose that democracy for which we are supposed to be fighting: and that I don't believe it is a real crusade because I think that the pretext for the crusade is idealistic but that the real motives are primarily impe rialistic. But I am not so blind and ego tistical as to think I represent the majority opinion of the class of 1941. Many of these who will leave the campus are skeptical of this crusade, but it is a skep ticism which has been more and more weakened and attenuated under a constant barrage of prop aganda. Because They Are Young They believe because they are young and hopeful, and because they want to be happy and they sense that the lot of the unbe liever is an unhappy one. They will go out, they will do their duty as they see it. firm in the blind faith that inspires all graduating classes that they are In Time With the Tunes By RUBY JACKSON Since the first ingenious song writer discovered that old musi cal master-works could furnish a lot of material for popular songs, dance bands have been offering rhythmical adaptations of melo dies from symphonies, tone poems, suites, and concertos. As a rule, scholars of music agree that this is a bad thing. It ruins the original beauty of the music, making it trite and hack neyed. Nothing but the barest outline of the original melody is left, and all the depth added by skillful orchestration is lost. Another Side But there is another side to the story that has proven itself. It is that familiarity with melodic themes from great works of mu sic can lead to a gradual but definite appreciation for the orig inal composition. Long after the listener has ceased to care for the rhythmical portion of an “adapted” popular song, the mel ody will linger in his mind. Very often this ends in his hearing the original music, enjoying it, and consequently finding himself in possession of something that is going to last as no popular song ever could—or at least, ever has. If Tschaikovsky’s 5th has al ways been popular, it became even more generally so after the smash hit made by its offspring, “Moonlove.” Chopin, Debussy, Mozart, and Rimsky-Korsokoff are among other composers whose music has been “exploited” in this way, only to lead to a wider, appreciation of the original music from which the popular songs sprang. Says Is Profitable As long as results are positive, it seems to me really profitable to adapt songs in this manner. There is, of course, some music that should not and will not be touched in this manner. But if it helps music appreciation in the long run, it’s all right. Off the air for the rest of the summer is the Ford Sunday Eve ning Hour. But throughout the summer season a good many con certs will be broadcast, so watch the newspapers for them. Radio pages, especially those of the Sunday papers, carry this infor mation. Standard Symphony Hour is heard Thursday evening at 8 over Mutual. Saturday night from 5:30 to 7 o’clock the NBC symphony broad cast is heard and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the CBS sym phony is broadcast. the fortunate ones who are fated to make this a better world. They go out with clear eyes, bright faces, filled with hope and a great willingness to serve and achieve. God grant these fine qualities may not be ruthlessly squandered! Columbia university has reor ganized its summer session grad uate courses to equip personnel for opportunities in governmental service. • Congratulations students on a success ful year. • Thank you for your kind patronage. • We hope you will re turn next fall. Archambeaus