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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1941)
The Oregon Daily Emerald, published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, 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 :lass matter at the postffice, Eugene, Oregon. HELEN ANGELL, Editor FRED MAY, Business Manager Associate Editors: Betty Jane Biggs, Hal Olney Ray Schrick, Managing Kditor Bob Frazier, News Editor Jim Thayer, Advertising Manager Warren Roper, National Advertising Manager UPPER NEWS STAFF Jonathan Kahananui, Lee rlatberg, Co-Sports Editors Corrine Nelson, Mildred Wilson, Co-Women's Editors Herb Penny, Bill Hilton, Assistant Managing Editors Joanne Nichols, Assistant News Editor Mary Wolf, Exchange Editor UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Helen Rayburn, Layout Manager Dave Holmes, Circulation Manager Maryellen Smith, Special Issue Manager Alvera Maeder, Leota Whitelock, Classified Managers Jean Gallo, Office Manager Peggy Magill, Promotional Director Editorial and Business Offices located on ground floor of Journalism building. Phones 3300 Extension: 382 Editor; 353 News Office ; 369 Sports Office ; and 354 Business Office. Happy Birthday! i^TURDY and staunch it faced the world. From its knoll it lorded over a straggling batch of weeds but bright in its new paint it gave promise of better things to come. Sturdy and staunch it faced the world. The four-year battle of practically state and county civil war was over. Sturdy and staunch it faced the world. The last calf had been brought in, the last bushel of apples, the last pigs had been delivered to the general storekeeper to trade for cash to pay the final indebtedness. #■ * * j^IXTY-FIVE years ago tomorrow President John Wesley Johnson with his four faculty members waited in brand new Deady hall—the University of Oregon—to welcome the first student body of 177, 80 of college age. Today the enrollment has swollen to almost 3500, the faculty covers 14 six-by-nine pages. Plans are before the state board of higher education to extend the campus boundaries to include a 14-acre recreation area beyond the millrace. Five years past its diamond aniversary the University of Oregon barely stops in the midst of its 8 o’clock, its coke dates, its plans for its weekend to realize the day of its founding. Can’t we look at Deady with an extra measure of respect tomorrow? It was the cornerstone of today’s University 65 years ago.—B.J.B. "What Happened to Thursday?" HPHANKSGIVINQ this year, in spite of what irascible calen dar makers may have you infer, the raving of die-hard tra ditionalists notwithstanding, is still officially the next to the last Thursday in November (November 20). However, amidst the hubbub of a heated press conference early this summer. President Roosevelt acknowledged his error in alter ing the traditional date and decreed that in 1942, Thanksgiving would retreat to its original date—the last Thursday in No vember. The University of Oregon observes this national holiday on the official date this year, November 20. which should cure many a perplexed student who has acquired the notion that the institution would observe some “boot-leg” Thanksgiving come next month. Thanksgiving on November 20, however, unearths what would seem, at first glance, a flood of complications, this in connection with Homecoming. It appears the athletic board scheduled the Oregon-OSC game for November 29, which be comes Homecoming, this emerging a week following turkey weekend. & * * ]T is supposed in some quarters that students going home a week before the alum fete might assuage parents’ yearning to see their offspring, give the former less inventive to visit the eampus seven days later, and thereby diminish the Home coming crowd. Also the four-day recess commencing on November 120 will slash into the heart of promotion activity for the following weekend, reducing its potency. However, the tradition steeped about Homecoming, which, among other things, includes the annual Oregon-OSC feud, will certainly negate some of this. And this year the grid rivalry bodes added significance, since that game may decide the Pacific coast's Rose Bowl representative on January 1. And then there s the case of Ohio Wesleyan university, which selected the wrong "typical students when preparing a pic ture booklet on its activities. Pile photos were taken last spring. The front cover of the booklet shows a coed who since has "flunked out” of school i ml a hoy who has transferred to Case college. QolusfuUlt AhAw&iA Emerald Holds the Ace By WILLIAM HAIGHT Only Emperor Hirohito knows what Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin would like to know and Emperor Hirohito, the son of the Sun won’t tell. His impenetrable highness may wish to shine his rising sun down Java way, (Dutch East Indies) or north to the Soviet’s Siberia. Diplomatic maneuvers apparently have failed. The United States and the Dutch East Indies have turned a deaf ear to Japanese mut terings. Soviet Russia (friend of democracy) has been playing a cat and mouse game for several years with Japan. military acuon seems inevita ble. It appears to me there is less danger for Japan to move against Russia, because the United States is less likely to fight for Russia than the Dutch East Indies. There is one stickler in that viewpoint; Japan needs the oil the island of Java produces and she may figure she could take the Dutch East Indies before the United States can act. Offers Inducement Java is one of the larger is lands of the Malay archipelago and contains the capital, Batavia', the seat of the Dutch govern ment which rules over 20,000 is lands and 65,000,000 brown na tives with 137 cultures. Java produces oil, rubber, tea, quinine (95 per cent world’s sup ply comes from Java), tin, to bacco, sugar, copra, teakwood, tapioca, rice, and sulphur. Japan needs badly the 57,000,000 bar rels of oil Java produces each year, particularly since the Unit ed States no longer ships oil to Japan. The defense of Java presents less a problem than one might think. The coastal area complete ly around the island is either rocky shallow water, or heavily mined bays. The land next to the sea coast is marshy; difficult ter (Please turn to page seven) Oh ^Ute. Mail Bacj, To the Editor: W. E. H. apparently does not understand the true meaning of PACIFISM. First, pacifism advocates far more than “the settlement of in ternational disputes by arbitra tion.” The word “pacifism” comes from the Latin words “pay,” meaning peace, and “facio,” meaning to make. The pacifist is therefore a peacemaker. He feels that he can not make peace by making war, and consequently refuses to participate in any kind of war. Second, his assertion, “A favor ite argument of the pacifist mind ed is that Hitler can be ap peased,” is not true. The pacifist does not believe that peace can be made through appeasement. Note this comment by A. J. Muste, whom Time ranked as America's No. 1 pacifist in 1940: “Giving away, as at Munich, (Please turn to page seven) | A/a «AeUal at *140? | A Beaver Speaks Out of Turn (An Editorial) The first tiling about the University of Oregon that warrants admiration from out-of-state students who conic to the campus is the democratic spirit and the instinctive friendliness that are so much a part of campus life. They marvel too at the understanding relationship between faculty and student. But the October S edition of the Oregon State Barom eter doesn’t agree. The editorial page of that publication uses snobbishness and “U of 0 complex” as synonyms. Writes Editor Joe Ross: “Maybe it’s bashfulness or shyness—but something’s happened to all those ‘hellos’ that used to breeze over the campus. Not that we’re getting a U of O complex, for that ‘lli partner’ spirit is still here—so let’s put it down as timidness rather than snobbishness.” Oregon’s brand of democracy, Mr. Ross, doesn’t have to be ferreted out or hoped to be still here. Friendliness and cooperative spirit are the bases of all student asso ciation on the Webfoot campus. It’s not a type of dem ocracy to be measured by compulsory wearing of green rooters’ lids or green hairbows. We don’t have to look for it, because it’s genuine and not a small townish type of friendliness that we have to define. Where did this idea of Oregon’s snobbishness first arise in the minds of our rival institution? Is it not the natural result of the fact that one is a school of arts and letters, the other of agriculture? A school of agriculture is to a greater degree a communal venture, and its basic organization is on group efforts. In a University of liberal arts, there is a natural tendency toward individual re search and appreciation. The whole curriculum arrange ment does not favor the “everybody a brother” idea on which a state college operates, that of class cooperation because practically everybody is studying in allied fields. At the 1 niversity, the law school, or journalism, or art schools are all so infinitely different that class work on an “everybody think alike” basis is scarcely feasible. Bnt just because one school deals with a “down to earth" field of study and the other with the more aesthetic preparations for life does not mean that the University of Oregon is less democratic, less friendly, lias Mr. Uss ever spent an afternoon in the College Side? White Lies By WHITELY Big Butch Thompson is the “white hope” of Coach “Hobby” Hobson’s 1941-42 basketball team. The little feller, who tips the Fairbanks at 219 on Wednesdays, is really having a field day at the gym. He not only nandles the ball like a gazelle, but swings his hips like a star from Phinoc cios. Those who have tried to tan gle with Butch in a scramble for the ball usually come out second best. As one varsity candidate put it, “It’s like trying to take the ball away from an octopus . . . yuh just ain’t got a chance.” Betty Rathbun of the widowed Theta clan, must have been mis taken for either Frankenstein’s grandmother, or Man Mountain Dean, coz some loving sorority sister spread a tube of Colgate’s Shaving cream on her tresses while she “was out of this world” . . . asleep. According to reports, she must have been worrying about child care and training or sompthin’, cos by the time she woke up she was really in a lath er! Were the culprits kind enough to leave a few tickets to “Askit Basket”, Betty? After all Col gates is Colgates. Picture of grace and beauty . . . Pat Vandeneynde at the Eu (Please turn to page seven) liu* an the Ai&le. By ROY METZLER Pictures of the week: “Andy Hardy Faces Life” continues the high standards set by the pre vious “family series films” star ring the Hardy clan. Many new faces and a new setting provided added interest in this film which depicts Andy’s experiences in the big city. Only confusing part of the film was the role of the sec retary whom most audiences thought was a girl scout until the last reel when she turns out to be a vamp. Sad Ending ‘Doctor Kildare’s Day” was the companion feature and it caused more discussion than the Rooney vehicle. Upon leaving the McDonald, almost everyone was disappointed and somewhat sad because Dr. Kildare’s girl friend (Laraine Day) was killed. There was a definite reason for this. MGM has future plans for Miss Day and they figured that she was getting “typed” as a nurse. So the simplest way to get her out of the series was to have her killed. Audiences will see Laraine Day in a variety of roles now, in stead of constantly being Dr. Kildare’s assistant. Diplomacy of the week: When Cubans objected to films show ing mosquitoes there, because it reflected their bad sanitary con ditions, the locale of a film now in production was changed to Hawaii, thus keeping the mos quitoes in our own territory. Arliss Back ilm bid of the week: Twentieth Century-Fox has been making attractive offers to George Ar liss, the distinguished retired British star, for the leading role in “The Pied Piper,” Nevil Shute’s novel. Shorts of the week: Kate Smith’s request to do “God Bless America" over the air has been nixed by ASCAP . . . Walt Dis ney's “Dumbo,” feature-length Technicolor film story of an ele phant that flies will have its premiere October 23 at the Broad (Please turn to page seven)