Oregon
Emerald
The Oregon Daily Emerald, published daily during the college year except Sundays,
Mondays, holiday*, 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 postffice, Eugene, Oregon.
HELEN ANGELL, Editor FRED MAY, Business Manager
Associate Editors: Betty Jane Biggs, Hal Olney
Ray Schrick, Managing Editor
Bob Frazier, News Editor
Jim Thayer, Advertising Manager
Warren Roper, National Advertising Manager
Editorial board: Buck Buchwach, Hal Olney, Betty Jane Biggs, Ray Schrick, Jonathan
Kahananui; Professor George Turnbull, adviser.
ITPPER NEWS STAFF
Jonathan Kahananui, Lee Flatberg,
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
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Helen Rayburn, Layout Manager
Dave Holmes, Circulation Manager
Maryellen Smith, Special Issue Manager
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1941 Member 1942
Pbsociated College Press
Homecoming, 1941 • • •
TJOMECOMING this year is, like all other alumni fetes, de
X signed to bring back to the former student associations
of the more carefree life of undergraduate days. But this year’s
Homecoming will be a streamlined version of the old ‘‘gang
gets together” idea.
For while alumni still will see the unchanged ivy-covered
Heady hall in its traditional spot, the same sleepy look of
eight-o’clock-in-the-morniv.g coeds, the traditional lemon-col
ored ”0” on SkinnerV, Butte, there will be new influences
too. Homecoming will follow a strictly 1941 pattern, for this
year’s University of Oregon is one geared to national defense.
Even the theme of the annual fray with the Rose Bowl-con
scious Oregon State.Beavers takes on the “war” angle, with
“Blitz the Beavers” the cry of the campus. The game will be
an especially crucial one, for on it may depend whether OSC
makes the New Year’s Day classic or not.
Stepping out of tradition too is the pre-game festivity, by
age-old custom a noise parade, but this year taking the form
of a rally dance and pep assembly in Gerlinger.
# * # #
’Y^'IIILE Athletic Manager Anse Cornell scratched his head
this week in an attempt to find seating capacity for
thousands of reservations that poured into his McArthur court
office, the campus made ready for entertainment of those who
made the University of Oregon what it is today. They worked
long hours on ideas for bringing back memories of the past,
combined with a modern, progressive approach to the present.
They believe that should be the essence of Homecoming, 1941.
Exit the Old...
JT’S all quiet on the Millrace for Homecoming but when grads
come back for Junior Weekend, construction will be under
way to eliminate the troublesome kinks in the old stream and
give it new straight, sophisticated streamlines.
Like' a table of bridge players, the University and the
state highway department have laid plans shuffling and re
shuffling historical markings of the old Millrace and highway
into a model recreation center and less hazardous traffic thor
oughfare.
One of the most important items to the alumni of this ex
tensive development program is the new canoe fete set-up.
Seating capacity will be increased, the stage bigger with dress
ing rooms, and the Millrace will be wider.
# * * #
the blue print approved by the state board of higher
education, Assoeiate Professor Fred Cuthbert, supervisor
of the plans, showed 5000 bleaehers with 1000 auxiliary seats
compared to the present crowded 3500.
Bleaehers. too, will be in a new location—70 feet from the
road putting them a little over the present site of the Alillrace.
And before the 80-foot stage will lay the Millrace—widen over
twice its present size.
While Architect Cuthbert doesn't promise the new canoe
facilities for the 11)42 show, alums this spring will see practical
foundation of future canoe fetes on the Millraee.BdB.
This morning’s Emerald marks the first paper of the year
with ‘‘dual personality." After the campus “run’’ was com
pleted, the first page was bannered with “Welcome Grads.”
Ten thousand extra copies with this invitation to join in Home
coming festivities and “Blitz the Beavers” were sent to alumni
throughout the state by the Homecoming committee and the
Emerald staff.
At
Second
Qlanae
By TED HARMON
It’s safe to say now that last
weekend will probably be the
biggest event of the whole term.
Stretched over both Friday and
Saturday nights, some 18 house
dances were given. Except for a
few sororities who undoubtedly
wanted to impress their pledges
by having a formal, the themes
ranged through the alphabet with
surprising results.
Notable were Sigma Chi’s
“Jungle Drums” and the Delts’
“Warehouse” themes. Best title
goes to AOPi with its “Pledges
for Defense;” Thetaz second with
“Shanty Town.” And, of course,
the ATO’s again made their
“Trapper’s Ball” another success,
while the Fijis developed their
annual pseudo-cannibalism with
grass skirts and tuxedo jackets.
Of the barn dances, the Kap Sigs,
Beta and Theta Chi carried on
their traditional fall term epics.
But Homecoming is just around
the comer and always a gala
three-day event, the weekend
should provide enough entertain
ment for anyone. Especially so
with the several new innovations
this year.
CAMERACTION last Saturday
night fpund campus-prominent
Kappa Bette Morfitt and SAE’s
Chuck Coffyn announcing their
engagement at a dinner before
the Kappa house dance. . . . And
there was Marilyn Marshall,
ADPi, who suffered the most em
barrassment of the evening when
a stray nail on the Kap Sig slide
forced her to run home to change
her costume. . . . Alpha Chi Billie
Christenson with a genuine Mex
ican hat, the brim extending some
18 inches out into space, cover
ing Billie . . . Fidelt Walker
Treece at the Kappa house dur
ing intermission, tickling the
strings of a bass to lead a Conga
chain.
The flooding of the Willamette
river caused a little excitement
for Chuck Putnam, Duke Karter
man and girl-friend Jean Johnson
Sunday afternoon when their
car suddenly sank into four feet
of water. They were on the road
above the main highway and an
innocent looking puddle turned
into a small lake. Jean scrambled
atop the front seat while Putnam
and Karterman, wading waist
deep in their Sunday suits, se
cured immediate help.
Fi’om New York to the Oregon
campus for Homecoming will
come Flying Cadet Jack Bryant,
former Emerald gossiper. With
only a ten-day leave, he will fly
to Eugene from Mitchell field,
leaving his shiny convertible be
hind.
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USA Moms to Watch Out'
By DON TREADGOLD
Last week in Detroit Lord Hal
ifax was egged and tomatoed.
The British ambassador to the
United States, calling on Arch
bishop Edward Mooney after
touring factories, was first lustily
booed. Then someone hit him with
an egg; someone else missed him
with a tomato; and still another
somebody splashed his aides with
an omelet.
His own reaction was this:
“My feeling was one of envy that
people have eggs and tomatoes
to throw about. In England these
are very scarce.”
Who Did It
Now comes the rub. Who was
responsible for this trick? Some
hoodlums or tramps, or even the
overalled men who egged Will
kie last year in the same city?
No. An organization of MOTH
ERS. A group called The Amer
ican Mothers, who had previous
ly picketed Halifax, denied guilt,
and blamed a bunch called Moth
ers of the U.S.A.
The Mothers of the U.S.A.
blamed The American Mothers.
The point isn’t worth quibbling
about. Halifax, in any case, wa«
egged by mothers. Time com
ments: "If some excitable Colonel
Blimp had thrown a turnip at
Ambassador Winant (America’s
envoy in London), the U.S. would
have hit the international ceil
ing.” But the British didn’t mur
mur.
American Bights
Now leaving aside the fact that
we Americans,' being free souls,
like to reserve the right, in time
of extremity, of throwing farm
er’s produce at people we don’t
like, how would you account for
this episode? The answer is that
there is a certain group of moth
ers, well organized into several
distinct organizations, who, afraid
their boys are going to be sent off
to die in Europe, are exerting ev
ery form of pressure against any
thing that smells of war.
Now these organizations, whe
ther you agree with them or not,
have an obvious and perfectly un
derstandable reason for doing
what they are doing. But being
so perfectly obvious and above
board, it seems sure that some of
our shadier citizens and camou
flaged Nazis are trying to use
them for that very reason-^m
one suspects mothers of Nazify
ing.
Wlnchell’s Say
But Walter Winchell has turned
up several instances of mothers’
organizations, knowingly or not,
distributing Nazi literature. By
such actions as picketing the
White House, as both the afore
mentioned American and U.S.A.
Mothers are now doing, they cer
tainly seem to play into Nazi
hands. But are these women
traitors ?
The answer is the very oppo
site. But unfortunately this is
just another example of political
babes-in-the-woods being USHE)
by more astute and less idealistic
niggers-in-the-woodpile. It is to
the interest of the mothers them
selves to root these men out of
their organizations.
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