At
Second
(fiance
By TED HARMON
WEATHER FORECAST East
of the Sun and West o’ the Moon.
Here we are, down in the cor
ner surrounded by all these faces
on the page. If, like us, you
haven’t seen them for a long
time, might as well look them
over. Meanwhile, we’ll proceed
with our business.
At week’s end, we thought we
were going to sink our teeth into
a good story. It seems that the
Washington basketball team Sat
urday night became thoroughly
acquainted with the campus.
About 10:15 there were screams
from the Theta house “while the
Pi Phis merely giggled. But
that’s not the point in question.
The invading team hit nearly ev
ery sorority, garbled about the
late hours they have up at Seat
tle (two in the morning), and
then proceeded to drown their
sorrows of a campus closing
down early.
The moral might easily be he
who goes out for wool may come
home clipped.
in jnemorium
AVERILL showers
Bring not only May flowers,
But a column of pun and wit,
With CONNIEtations so clear
It was competition, we fear . . .
And we’ll be forced to quit.
In fact, we’re going to set up a
book stall by the library and sell
copies of "How to Lose Friends
and Alienate People.’’ The bene
fits will go to broken-down col
umnists. As an added feature,
Mr. Hallock is donating an album
of Sammy Kaye records to the
cause.
We’ve finally discovered why
all the fire alarms being turned
in by the sororities. You will re
call it was the Alpha Chi first,
then the Piflies .... Last Friday
when the fire department turned
up at the Tri-Delt house, and
there was no evidence of flames,
we decided that it must be that
men are becoming so scarce these
days, that the girls resort to call
ing the fire department just to
get a man into the house. . . .
Little time was lost after the
weekend’s initiations as far as
the Pi Kaps were concerned.
Both Bob Wylie and A1 Kasmeyer
are now veddy, veddy happy that
Pat Bowers and Mavis Nelson
are wearing their frjuits of many
a joyless pledge day.
CULTURAL DEPARTMENT:
Social chairmen check this tern.
Delt pledge Chuck Larson gives
a dandy talk, illustrated, on wo
men’s fashions.
MAIL-BAG DEPARTMENT:
We received a letter from Bob
"White Lies" Whitely yesterday
and portions of it are good
enough to pass on to you:
“Am working at the Oregon
shipyards and I think there are
more bootiful women working in
this jernt than all the beauty
queens put together, although am
having a time keeping former
Oregon wolves away from my
front door.
"Here’s an item that might in
terest you. I went down to the
boiler room of Meriwether-Lewis
just for fun, and what should be
chipped into the side of the boiler,
burned with an acetylene torch
were those magic words that C
loves N. Y'see, t'ain’t only John
son hall that carries those magic
words. They’re holding up Na
tional Defense!’’
* * *
GOSSIPATTER, or by the
dorm’s early light. Sigma Nu Don
Daniels returned to the campus
last weekend, sort of a long, last
look at things before he goes into
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An Individual Decides...
A chance to “give until it hurts” is given to every Univer
sity student this week in Oregon's initial drive for funds
to finance the Avar. Today Lou Torgeson, ASUO president,
Avill meet Avith presidents and treasurers of all living organiza
tions in a plea for sacrificing of part of their pleasures for a
really Avorthwhile donation to national defense.
Tonight around firesides throughout the campus, secre
taries Avill call the roll and ask each member of a living organ
ization Avhat he or she can contribute to the University’s de
fense bond quota. To those individual contributions it is hoped
that there Avill be added a significant amount by each house
as a whole. Hard-to-equal example is that of Kappa Sigma,
which has already bought a $5000 defense bond.
, * * # *
g’TUDENTS from time to time come into the Emerald office
Avith a thwarted feeling of being unable to help. This week’s
drive is one that gives a chance to every man and Avoman stu
dent on the campus. It is all-enveloping in its scope.
The reasons for living organization purchase of defense
bonds are obvious. Primarily, of course, every student is vitally
interested in defeating the Axis poAvers. Last Aveek President
Roosevelt asked for $58,000,000,000 as a starter on the war
program . . . and it must come from the pockets of Americans.
To Avin the Avar at any cost has become the cry in this country.
Secondarily, houses are not only aiding their country but
they are keeping their money in safe-keeping until after the
Avar. No one expects the college living groups to come out of
this conflict financially “on top" in the face of ever-decreasing
enrollments. A “nest egg” to begin Avith when peace is re
stored is a significant point to consider.
This is a real chance for the usually pleasure-seeking Oregon
campus to shoAV Avhat it can do in time of emergency. May
the coffers be full Avlien the defense committ.ee leaves Eugene.
The Insignificant Nickel...
piTY the insignificant nickel. It is spent 'with a careless
ease and thoughtlessness. And what is its value? Five little
halls which can be made to scoot erratically across a brightly
patched board under a large sheet of glass. A tune ground
from a cafe juke box. A highly-flavored, highly-biearbonated
drink from an electrically controlled icebox. A candy bar. A
few minutes of dancing with a girl you've probably never
seen before.
Oh, most unvalued coin. Unnoticed it lies in the pocket of
its owner. Comes some idle moment when its owner for lack
of something better to do drops it into the slot of an intricate
machine. It tinkles merrily for a few seconds as it drops into
its resting place among myriad brethren. It is gone and as soon
forgotten.
piIT perhaps the little nickel is not so insignificant. For
mechanical minds have concocted countless numbers of
ingenious devices to woo the unwary coin with the buffalo
face.
It was Woolworth who first discovered and proved that the
small coin was as well worth snaring as the larger ones. He
only had dime stores but they made millions.
A nickel isn't much money. But twenty of them are a dol
lar.—H.O. *
Oregon H Emerald
HELEN AXGELL, Editor FRED O. MAY, Business Manager
Associate Editor, Hal Olney
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• • •
Qutt-^lote/i. P'lovitted'
Fireworks in South America
By BILL HAIGHT
Oswaldo Aranha, ex-gun toting gaucho, and now foreign minister
of Brazil and the austere, intellectual Sumner Welles, American under
secretary of state, together have been exploding diplomatic bombs
under the axis seats at the Pan-American conference in Rio de
Janeiro.
* . Hemispheric solidarity was a theme the First Lady Eleanor said to
the Americans at $1500 per lecture last year but today the Brazilian
Oswaldo and the American sum
ner have almost accomplished the
dream without a gun fired.
Argentina will cooperate with
the other republics (term used
for propaganda purposes), but
her foreign minister remembers
the rancho owners at home with
too much beef on their hands.
Argentina is still saying "yes,
but—.”
So Sorry
Even so, when Hirohito goes
to report to his ancestors on the
state of affairs of the "Setting”
Sun he may say: "So sorry, Rio,
but” and save his face by point
ing to the naval base at Dovao,
southern tip of the Philippine is
lands.
The naval base, originally un
der United States control, was left
in excellent condition for the Jap
anese to use as a port to trans
port troops from and as an air
base to launch attacks against
the Netherlands East Indies. Da
vao provides a good harbor plus
accessibility to the richest loot in
the Far East.
Hitler can tell his folks at home
that the axis forces are main
taining their positions in Russia
but more than likely he will tell
his people that their Japanese
partners despite American and
Australian aid are still forging
ahead.
Rewrite Ahead
British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, will have to re-write
part of the speech he was plan
ning to make to appease the
House of Commons and offer a
whopping explanation of why the
allied forces have let Japan es
tablish a protected base at the
Port of Tavoy.
Tavoy is a deadly thrust at the
heart of the life-line to China.
Rangoon, the capital of Burma,
and the seaport and truck loading
terminal for supplies to China is
only 225 miles by bomber from
the strategic port of Tavoy.
With this port under their ex
panding .belts the Japanese can
attack the democratic sea routes
in the Gulf of Martabon, on which
is the harbor of Rangoon, aside
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Mall ficuj,
Dorms Again
To the editor:
Last week you gave promi
nence to the story on the five
cent an hour raise given to dor
mitory workers. But you failed to
take notice of one very interest
ing fact. The women workers no
longer are given their breakfast
and lunch as before the raise.
They must now pay for them or
bring their own. The dormitory
management in reality gave them
no raise at all.
Despite the increased cost of
board the food has failed to show
any signs of improvement. In two
different instances last week the
kitchen ran out of meat for din
ner. Another time they ran out
of desserts. This would certainly
seem to indicate that some degree
of bad management exists.
And has anything been done
this term about the rumored plan
for a meeting of a dormitory in
vestigation committee ? The war
should not interfere with the
cleaning up of this deplorable sit
uation as it now exists.
Sincerely,
A Dorm Inmate
from the fact they have cut off
more than 300 miles of the nar
row strip of Burma that paral
lels Thailand and connects Burma
proper with the Malaya peninsu
la.
From Rio to Rangoon, from
Malta to Moscow the world of to
morrow being shaped with words
and swords and like the roulette
wheel Oswaldo Aranha likes to
watch whirl around — no one
knows where it will stop —at D
(democracy) or A (axis).
By ROY METZLER
Picture of the week “How
Green Was My Valley” should
carry off many honors at the
academy award dinner in 1943.
This picture showed everything
with fine directing, acting, and
photography. The plot is woven
around the simple life of Welstf*"
coal miners as portrayed in Rich
ard Llewellyn’s novel. Roddy Mc
Dowall, Walter Pidgeon, and
Maureen O’Hara give top-flight
performances in this stirring
film. “How Green Was My Val
ley” should be on everyone’s
“must see” list.
Permission Granted
First instance whereby a stu
dio can move into a defense plant
to shoot a picture since the be
ginning of the war, has been ar
ranged between Warners and
Lockheed for “Shadow of Their
Wings.” After weeks of negotia
tion, the aircraft officials okay^cf
the request with certain limita
tions. Each worker will have to
carry a birth certificate for iden
tification in order to gain admit
tance to the Lockheed plant.
Tobruk in Films
Fourteen thousand feet of film
recording all phases of the fight
ing around Tobruk during the
past year, all photographed un
der fire or on battle lines will be
made available (for Columbia's
“Salute to Tobruk.” The film is
pi-ivileged to Columbia because
of cooperation of the Australian
government through its ministry
of information. Half of the film
was photographed with sound.
Changing Times
Word has been passed to the
heads of all studios, that in the
filming of all modern scripts at
least one man in uniform is to be
seen for every 15 persons cast in
city crowds, to correspond to the
normal proportion of uniforms
seen throughout the nation.
Dots and Flashes
Come March, Amos and Andy
will celebrate 16 years of broad
casting, twice a day. five days a
week with but two broadcasts off
in all that time . . . Mayor La
Guardia’s dream for New York
to become a film mecca has final
ly been realized. The Paramount
studios at Astoria are going on a
24-hour schedule—shooting gov
ernment pictures. . . . Did you
hear about the motorist who was
in an accident, pinned under his
car and in a bad way ? When help
came and got him up, he said,
“Never mind about me—how are
my tires?”