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Singapore Defense Major Job
By DON TREADGOLD
While our own troops make a magnificent but practically hope
less stand north of Manila, we look with even greater anxiety toward
Singapore. That fortress is one of the six great bastions of Allied
sea power spanning the globe (the others being Panama, Pearl
Harbor, Suez, Gibraltar, and Great Britain). Don’t be misled by the
fact that it is only a pinpoint on the map. Time on January 5 said
that the axis object now is "to --
eiiect a vast pmcer movement
aimed at choking the only ade
quate supply lines to Russia and
China, the Persian gulf route and
the Burma road. If Japan takes
Singapore and if Germany suc
cessfully makes the logical move
against Suez , . . that object will
btrall but accomplished. The pin
cers will close on Russia and
China. Without supply they will
a 1 m o st inevitably succumb.”
Time goes on to say that the pin
cers then will be reversed to
close on Britain and the United
States. Col. Frederic Palmer as
serts that if Singapore is won,
the Tokyo war lords would not
worry about Hitler’s troubles in
Russia, but would simply take
India for themselves.
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British Will Win
This writer would predict that
Singapore will be held. This is
not so much a reasoned convic
as the product of wishful
thinking. But there are some good
reasons, too. Air reenforcements
are on the way and are already
reaching Malaya in strength. The
Japanese, as they approach Sing
apore, will move from trackless
jungles to ground better organ
ized by the British in the State
of Johore. The British will fight
harder and harder as the magni
tude of the stakes becomes ap
parent.
Their supply lines will be short
and communication simplified.
They will be fighting within the
shadow of the great fortress it
self. Above all, allied criticism of
Tfee miscalculation and bungling
on the part of old-school-tie Brit
ish officers which brought on
this whole mess is rising to fever
pitch. Changes are being made
and made swiftly. ^
Neither is this Singapore pic
ture either all black or all white,
though if the Japanese do cap
ture it things will be black
r
enough for anybody. But there is
a possibility that the siege of
Singapore may be so bitter and
prolonged that the effect of the
great fort may be in part nulli
fied. An example of what I mean
is the Axis neutralization of Gi
braltar by controlling its Spanish
rear and the forts facing it across
the Pillars of Hercules. Singa
pore may be rendered partially
worthless to the allies without
a single Jap ever setting foot in
it. At any rate, if the allies have
any good slogans left, they had
better think up one for Singa
pore. They’ll never have any
greater need for one.
Les Petites BiJoux
(Continued from page two)
We hope there’s no hard feelings
around the house, Will.
Who says romance at the IT
waits until spring term to blos
som? Here’s a host of pin-plant
ings to prove it. ELEANOR
SEDERSTROM, Alpha Phi, and
RAY BURLINGAME, Sigma Chi;
DICK “GOOMER” LOOMIS, Chi
Psi, and BETTE BROOKSHIER,
Theta; JOHNNY VEATCH, Beta,
and BETSY FEASLEY, Theta;
NEAL BAUMGARDNER, Phi
Delt, and JEAN KENDALL, Pi
Phi; FRANK WATKINS, Phi
DELT transfer from OSC, and
PEGGY FORNEY, Pi Phi, JIM
HIGGINS, Kappa Sig, and EDIE
BORDA, DG; GREG DECKER,
Sigma Nu, and NORMA TRE
VORROW, Alpha Chi; JACK
GERTSON, Kappa Sig, and
DOROTHEA GODLOVE, ADPi;
FRITZ TIMMEN, Campbell, vs.
RUTH JORDAN, Sigma Kappa.
ELLE FORREST, Gamma Phi,
is trading campus life for Seattle
where it won't be long before
wedding bells will ring for her
and PAUL HILLAR, DU. Rumors
reach us of an imminent wed
Gamnul
GaUndal
Sigma Delta Clti will meet at
4 p.m. today in the journalism
building.
* * *
Business staff of Emerald will
meet tonight at 7:30 in room 105
journalism. The meeting is for
old members and others interest
ed in signing up for work on the
business staffj
Oregon & Emerald
Office Staff:
Carolyn McKinley
Lorraine Davidson
Maureen Conklin
Copy Desk:
Duncan Wimpress—Co-city
editor
Mary Wolf, Co-city editor
Barbara Younger
Marilyn Wiley
Sally Godbolt
Erling Erlandson
Kelly Snow
Ted Bush
Night Staff:
Bob Edward's, night editor
Jim Watson, assistant
Betty Ann Stevens
Audrey Beardshear
Day Staff:
Leith Brown, co-day manager
Marilyn Marshall, co-day mana
ger
Lee Barlow
Margaret Deane
ding for Pi Phi BETTY ANDER
SON and ex-student body presi
dent, HARRY WESTON.
Before we close we want to
wish STEVE WORTH luck in his
draft trouble, and GENE
CECCHINI a happy ending to his
double-woman trouble.
NYA Time Cards Due
NY A time cards must be
turned in to the NYA office by
noon Friday, January 16, an
nounced Aida Brun, secretary,
Wednesday. These time cards will
cover the hours worked during
the payroll period ending Thurs
day.
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BE
SOCIALLY
CORRECT
Especially in your correspondence
You may he guided ht§ the
the display of distinctive
new stales in our social
s tationery dep artment.
Fine papers made by Eaton and Crane and by Montag
Brothers, all most reasonably priced.
University ?CO-OP’ Store
Northwest Regional Council
Appoints Dr. Erb New Member
(Continued from page one)
of the region's problems and op
portunities and also to provide
machinery for conference and
consultation among the advisory,
research, planning and education
al agencies concerned with the*
orderly development of the Pa
cific Northwest.
Other Members
Other members of the council,
whose headquarters are in Port
land, include, besides President
Yantis, who is also chairman of
the Pacific Northwest regional
planning commission, H. B. Kiser,
vice-president, chairman of the
Washington state planning coun
cil; A. A. Cleveland, dean of the
college of education at Washing
ton State college; J. W. Condie,
state superintendent of public in
struction in Idaho; and A. L.
Strand, president of Montana
State college.
Among the objectives of the
Northwest Regional Council are
these: 1. To stimulate a greater
public awareness of the basic
problems of the Pacific North
west; 2. To make available at all
educational levels accurate and
stimulating materials concerning
the social, economic, and govern
mental problems of the region;
3. To provide the machinery for
conference and consultation
among the advisory research,
planning and educational agen
cies concerned with the orderly
development of the Pacific North
west; 4. To foster coordinated
research in the natural and hu
man resource fields so that waste
ful duplication may be avoided
and new fields for constructive
research may become mor j clear
ly cfefined.
Clearing House
5. To act as a clearing house
for the interchange of bibliogra
phic and other technical data of
regional significance; 6. To make
known the training required and
opportunities available for ca
reer service in the various agen
cies of federal, state and local
government, wlhile encouraging
the extensions of sound public
service training facilities; 7. To
assist by means of publication
and grants-in-aid . specific re
search of a highly significant
character and primarily regional
in scope.
Betas Pledge Walter
Earl Walter has been pledged
by Beta Theta Pi fraternity, re
ported the dean of men’s office
Wednesday.
Teaching a new Army
old "tricks" in telephony
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The telephone plays a vital role in army communications.
So the Bell System is helping to school Signal Corps
men in practically every phase of telephone construc
tion, operation and maintenance.
This training job is but a small part of the tremen
dous task Bell System people are doing in this national
crisis. They’re setting up telephone systems for new
camps,basesand factories—handling an enormous volume
of calls needed to coordinate the Nation’s war effort.
Throughout the country, Bell System people are
wholeheartedly cooperating in the drive for victory. To
men and women of their high caliber, there
is real satisfaction in a difficult job well done.