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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1942)
' „ .*• • •>- IV *■ 1 ‘ a At Second (fiance By TED HARMON EPITAPH Roses are red, Violets are blue; Bob Hope’s not bad, But Harmon . . . peeeu! And today’s tasty bit (ten cents with bun) was handed in by Bob Edwards, somebody on the Emer ald staff. We’re not mad at all, believing in free speech, for we’ve had our day, too, along with an unexpurgated copy of a ‘‘Thou sand and One Nights.” This “roses are red and violets are blue” stuff seems to have caught on and we’re happy about the whole thing. Anything to take the campus male’s mind off of what he’s been thinking about all winter. If you want to send a poem in, go ahead. We’ll gladly print it. Jack Lansing and his commit tee did a swellelegant job of “Dads’ Day," but we did hear one irritated father loosen up and yell. It seems as if when he reg istered at a certain hotel, the clerk asked him if he had a res ervation. “Hell, no!” said the fa ther, flicking the ashes off of his fountain pen, “what do you think I am ... a squaw?” Still another happening was of an Oregon Dad talking to his son. The young lad was bothered about his troubles and began to pour his heart out to his father. “Since I’ve met her, Dad, I can’t eat, sleep or even drink!” Dad raised his eyebrows, “Why not?” The answer was purely inevitable: “Because I'm always broke.” But it was really Dads’ day in every sense of the word. He came to the campus with his new car and check book. Sunday Dad left, with the car. Filled with shades of adven ture and a chance to get out af ter 11, by the next column we’ll have our own experiences atop the lookout tower on the library. Besides, we're bound to find out why they call the one-fall shack the Ivory Tower. Of coui'se, we have our ideas, but then, so does everyone else. GOSSIPATTER: Tuesday noon saw Alpha Chi Jerry Stowell at tempting to unlock Sigma Chi Mick Madren from the stocks. It took 50 seconds of persuasion on Jerry’s part to convince Mick that she really liked his pin. . . . there’s one group of names that will never pass through this area again . . . El lie Engdahl is now elevated to next year's Gamma Thi war-time president. Congrat ulations . . . Thetaki Bunny Potts phoned a florist and asked for a corsage of cyclamen. Evidently mistaking Bunn’s last name for part of the order, AO Pi Carrol Pageler went to her house dance carrying a pot of dang posies . . . We get a kick out of Bob Cher ney. Cliff Giffin and A1 Kasmey er trying to harmonize on “Blue Champagne” for no matter what song they sing, the tune’s always “Boogley Wooglqy Piggy” . . . A girl is just a minor before she’s 18, but after that she’s a gold dig ger . . . There was a sorority girl who went downtown to get a guard for her pin. “I’d like a tall one with dark, wavy hair," she said spasmodically . . . Did any of you notice the flower show at all the churches this last Sun day? Something New Added It isn’t the cough That carries you off . . . It’s the coffin they carry you off in. Nearly 2,500 students took cor respondent courses last year from the University of Texas. Oregon W Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald, published daily during the college year except Sunday, Monday, holidays, and redTassecond periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Subscription rates : $1.25 per term and $3.00 per >eaf. class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. _ ____ Represented for national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., college publisheis representativ , Madison Ave., New York—Chicago—Boston—Los Angeles—San Francisco—-Portland and Seattle._____ HELEN ANGELL, Editor Ray Schrick, Managing Editor Associate Editors: Hal Olney, Fritz rimmen Bob Frazier, News Editor r KtLlJ iYl.rYI, DUSIIKM .. Betty Jane Biggs, Advertising Manager UPPER NEWS STAFF Helen Rayburn, Layout Manager Lars Gilson, Circulation Manager Helen Flynn, Office Manager Peggy Magill, Promotion Director Elizabeth Edmunds, National Advertising Manager UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Jonathan Kahananui, Lee Flatberg, Co-Sports Editors Corrine Nelson, Mildred Wilson, Co-Women’s Editors Herb Penny, Assistant Managing Editor Joanne rvichols, Assistant .News r.uitur Mary VVoli, Exchange Editor Lois Clause, Circulation Manager 1941 Member 1942 Pis sodded Colle6ide Press That Last Dime • • • /'VNE of the significant problems evolving itself out of the new “intensified” four term college program is the very dangerous situation of insufficient “cash on hand” for many students to make it through the year. At the very time when it is vital that super ior and interested students finish their educa tion, it appears to be a fairly common prob lem that many of those good students are being forced to quit school to earn enough money to continue later. There are several reasons for this. With elimination of summer vacation, a definite earning period is gone. Higher prices on every commodity, including board and tuition, make the costs of a college education constantly rise. Jobs in Eugene itself become less plenti ful because decreased enrollment creates less demand, and business establishments are cut ting their staffs. (This is particularly true in restaurants.) * * * y^NOTIIER serious problem is the recent cut in NYA allotment, which provided part-time jobs for many University students. Says Dean of Personnel Karl W. Onthank: “ We were getting along moderately well in meeting the present need for NYA employ ment until the cut came. We now have a sub stantial list of qualified people waiting, whom we cannot give assignments under the re stricted allotment.” At the Regional College Work councils Jan uary 31 meeting in San Francisco, NYA em ployment came in for a good share of atten tion from western educators. it was the judgment of the council, based upon reports from each state in their region, that despite changing economic conditions there still exists a definite and pressing need for continued financial assistance to get them through school. * # npilEY recommended: 1. That the national youth administration aid program for college youth be continued. 2. That maximum monthly earnings should be raised from a possible $20 to $40 per month for undergraduates and from $30 to $50 for graduate students. 3. That maximum age limits should be in creased to 26 for undergraduates and through 30 for graduate students. Perhaps a further increase later, depending on length of service of returning army men. 4. That NYA aid should be available on a 12-month basis in many cases. 5. That NYA funds now impounded be im mediately released, after thorough investiga tion of specific states’ needs, since the finan cial needs of youth are still great, especially in non-defense, rural, and “priority de pressed” areas. 6. That assignments should tend more and more toward aiding participation in the coun try’s war effort. * * * \ CCORDING to National Youth Adminis trator Aubrey Williams, by February 5 there had been received in Washington re quests and recommendations similar to these from groups representing some 960 colleges and universities in 43 states. “These condi tions,” he said, “will be taken into full con sideration in the administration of any funds that Congress may see fit to appropriate for student assistance.” The recommended program obviously en tails a much larger congressional allotment than is at present provided. College students simply are unable to pay their own way in many cases without some assistance. Subsidization of higher education in war time is one of the best possible ways to pre pare for the peace that has to come. There must be leaders, schooled in government and political science, lo take over after the war. The college students of today will be those leaders. Two-Wheel Motorists... ■jVTOT so many clays after December 7, Dean Erie W. Allen of the journalism school was photographed on the front page riding a bicycle-—Ins method of conserving auto tires. Yesterday Professor E. P. Kremer announced that he. too, was favoring this method of transportation during war conditions. Every day more and more students are sending home for their “bikes"—relics of pre-college days. This return to bicycles brings another prob lem to the attention of the already defense measure harried administration. A bicycle parking problem. Strict regulations keep the bicycles off the campus paths. They have also been ruled off the parking lots next to Johnson hall and behind Friendly. Practically the only haven for bicycles is the 4 by ti foot cubbyhole at the entrance of McClure—hardly sufficient room to shelter all the gay nineties vehicles. The only two chapters of Phi Lambda Pi. sole organized social sorority for married women, are found at Tulane university and Louisiana State university. # * * Words and music for seven favorite univer Surely there is a place somewhere on a 100 acre campus for a few bicycle racks. * * # 'y^IHLE two-wheel “bikes” will be some what of a novelty on an American, they are as common in Europe as students asleep in 1 o'clocks. Wonderful tales returning travel ers tell of the advantages of a bike on hostel trips—a movement that Dean Onthank has been trying to foster for the last several years. Easier and quicker to park than an auto mobile, more economical to keep up. and less capital invested, it seems almost certain that this practical fad will become a favorite on all college campi and might possibly become a heritage to college students after the war. At least this world-wide battle will surely mark another era • in American transporta tion—from the latching post to the parking meter to the bicycle stand.—B.J.B. sity songs are being sold by the Wayne uni versity student council in a 13-page booklet. * * * Eula Friend. University of Omaha beauty queen, received 98 fan letters after her picture was published in Look magazine. Aw-jflll ^MitUb iiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiini!iiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiNiiniiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii:iiiiiii Heard around: that Peggy For ney, Pi Phi, will be "all alone and lonely” when Frank Watkins, Phi Delt transfer from OSC, leaves for the air corps; that Tom Watts, Delt, has at last planted his pin on Dot Flannery, AlphS O, after months of steadying it; that Bill Regner, Beta, and Lor raine Sampson, Alpha Phi, are nearing that steady stage. For better or for worse: Bette Morfitt, Kappa and ASUO secre tary-treasurer, was married Sat urday eve to Charles Coffyn. Seen dating in the Side: Jean Wilcox, Pi Phi, and Tommy Rob lin, Pi Kap, usually seen with the ATOs; Beta Paul Beard with some lucky girl (and that’s no lie.) Phi Delt P. J. Jackson is really preparing for the worst; he’s sell ing all, or at least almost alf, of his clothes before he goes into the army. And here we heard he isn’t to be inducted until June. Ever faithful Barbara Johnson who still wears “Butch” Nelson’s Beta pin along side of her Kappa key even though her man is at West Point receives flowers on Valentine’s for a reminder that “all is well.” Yell Duke Bob Weston off to join the army today leaving a vacancy in that oft vacant yell squad trio and a broken heart for steady gal friend Pat Howard, Sigma Kappa. And we’ve been wondering jusW what the fathers thought about the little brawl which ended with the “Star Spangled Banner” and nearly broke up an almost won derful game. We lost, remember. ^tnjdAe ladt... By MARY WOLF Exchange Editors Todd Ham ilton and Joan Brewster of the Oregon State Barometer admit that*it is a shame to keep plug ging the Emerald in their column. Wes Sullivan to whom they refer as J.W.S., that daily Emerald poet, has his works published in the Coivallis paper nearly as often as in the Emerald. Marge Major’s poems and A1 Larson’s “This One’s on You" are also quoted by the Barometer. Tn one of their recent issues they say, “If you only knew what the other schools are NOT print ing in the way of interesting stuff .... This story is told in Eugene * about a sorority underclassman and a blind date. Said the girl: “Am I the first girl you ever kissed?” The date struck a match and said, “Now that you mention it, you do look a bit familiar.” * * ss “Your girl is spoiled, isn’t she?” “No, it’s just the perfume she’s wearing.” —Utah Chronicle. ... It is interesting to note that in Kipling’s book, “Letters of Marque,” which he wrote as newspaper articles in 1887-89, he included a large amount of trav eler’s chatter about Japan. Of the Japanese army he said, “If you meet Japanese infantry, ^ led by a continental officer, com mence firing early and often at the longest ranges compatible with getting at them. They are bad little men who know too much.”—Stephens Life.