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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1942)
Bosuuufd., KaLtVfOl, K*Ul Museum Displays Filipino Weapons By BOB EDWARDS Recently General Douglas MacArthur has been praising the native Filipino troops for their brilliant and brave fighting with native weapons. In the museum of natural history in Condon hall is a display of such weapons collected by the late General Creed C. Hamond. The collection includes bar ongs, spears, bows and arrows, head axes kalingas, and kris. Tftese weapons embrace some of the most vicious cutting weapons ever devised. Bontoc-Igorot type spears in the collection are of the same type used by the Filipinos in MacArthur’s forces battling so successfully on Bataan peninsula. A few Igorots acting as observ ers for American tank drivers wiped out an entire Japanese reg iment of 1000 men recently. The kris is the famous weapon of the Malays and Moros. This weapon has a ripply, serpentine blade. One slash of the kris can remoye a man’s head from his - body. All the weapons used by the natives of the Philippines are used in a slashing motion, there is no thrusting which character izes European sword technique. The Moros are a tribe of Mo hammedans who inhabit the is lands in the Sulu sea and the principal island of Mindinao. The Moros carried on bitter and suc cessful campaigns against the Spanish who first controlled the islands. The Moros soon developed respect for the Americans after the Spanish war. “General Hamond was a stu dent of the University of Ore gon,” says H. L. Robe, assistant burator of the museum, “when I was attending the University.” General Hamond was an officer in the Oregon National Guard when war with Spain broke out in 1898. He spent the remainder of his life in the Army and sub sequently rose to the rank of general. Upon his death he willed his collection to his widow, who subsequently willed the collection to the University. The collection was acquired about one year ago. Of equal interest is the Phebe Ellison Smith memorial collec tion of Filipino costumes and Ko&sehold articles. In this collec tion are included baskets, cooking utensils and complete costumes for men and' women. The costumes are hand woven of native hemp dyed in bright colors. The designs of the fabrics are usually stripes with some patterns which, might he called plaids. Red, yellow, black and blue predominate and are repre sented in almost all of the gar ments. In contrast to the heavy brightly colored garments are garments made of sheer white cloth woven from a hemp and silk mixture. It once was the cus tom among the Filipinos that a man who killed another could wear a piece of clothing which had been worn by his victim. By the time a man had killed five or six he was fairly well dressed. College girls are not alone in wearing practical shoes. The col lection holds a pair of wooden, wet-weather shoes very similar to shoes seen on the campus of the University, leather uppers and all. The other clothing worn in wet weather has not been adopted on this campus. The rain coat is woven of rushes and the hat resembles that of the Chinese coolie. A far cry from the convention al college clothing is the highly ornamented accessories to the male and female costumes. The men wear a fancy knapsack and the women have an equally fancy bodice. Among the household articles can be seen the market basket used to carry pigs, chickens or vegetables to market. A pottery model of a stove is displayed near a carved wooden figure. The Phebe Ellison Smith Me morial collection was made by Dr. and Mrs. Warren D. Smith while in the Philippines several years ago. Dr. Smith gave a lecture upon the Philippines in Pasadena recently. Professor Turns Author Publication was recently made of the first all French book to be printed by the University Press. The book is "La Fortune du Tasse en France,” 300-page work, written by Dr. Chandler B. Beall, professor of Romance languages at the University. Listen... Noise, static, disturb ance . . . Now j Listen... A clear radio adds to your comfort. Have yours checked today for better re sults. Dotson Radio Shop r? 11 h Ave. E. Phone 202 Sp/UfiUf ^esutt StoSi6> Sltisiiitf &f RxUh Sport shirts will be the most popular shirtwear worn on the campus during spring term. Come the opening signs of spring, and male students will blossom out in bright colored, gay shirts that express the final end of the rainy season. Californians will drag out their relics of the • southern beaches, and rainbowesque colors will flare in profusion over the campus. By far the most popular type of shirt will be a plain colored rayon, whip-stitched affair. The color tendency will lean toward bright corn and yellow, and an airman blue that has been inspired by the uniforms of the Navy Air Force. Plaids Out Flashy plaid colors are out, and very few giddy symphonies of color will be seen, except per haps for Johnny Kahananui, re splendent in some of his night mares from the beaches of Wai kiki. These solid color sport shirts will range in price from $2 to $3.50, the higher priced ones being pure rayon. Dress shirts will suffer from war conditions. In six months there will be no full-run fabrics, and print shirts will be the only thing offered on the market. How ever, there is a full supply now, and collegians can avail them selves of any type of dress shirt that they need. Soft Collars Popular among males are soft collars, and the return of the but ton-down type seems imminent at Oregon. The Trubanized collar is still most predominant though. It is short and wide-spread. Clus ter stripes in the shirt body are most widely sold and are seen on the best shirts. Prices on dress shirts are going up as all clothing prices are, and it takes about $2.50 to buy a good one. Another innovation in sports shirts is the development of the two-shirts-in-one. This doubler makes it possible for the shirt to be worn either as a wide-brim sports type, or as a sedate dress shirt. As shirt prices rise and rise these creations will undoubtedly become most popular. They are suited to the collegians’ peculiar wallet. If you’re tired of having flow ers wilt after a morning of classes, invest in a small lapel vase, holding actual water to keep those violets fresh till eve ning. The Barnard college occupa tion bureau placed more students and graduates in jobs during the last academic year than ever be fore. Jack Remelton, erstwhile gun ner on H.M.S. Malaya, created a stir among coeds when he reg istered in the business school of New York university. CLASSIFIED ADS READER ADS Ten words minimum accepted. First insertion 2c per word. Subsequent insertions 1c per word. DISPLAY ADS Flat rate 37c column inch Frequency rate (entire term) : 35c per column inch one time a 84c per column inch twice or more a week. Ads will be taken over the telephone, on a charge basis if the advertiser is a subscriber to the phone. Mailed advertisements must have suffi cient remittance enclosed to cover definite number of insertions. Ads must be in Emerald business office no later than 6 p.ra. prior to the day of insertion. • Lost LIFETIME Parker fountain pen. Engraved name: LeRoy Eliott. Phone 3392W. Reward. • • y Hack to Nature Expert Advises No Cokes Carrots for cokes—that's the newest slogan for national defense. Both in view of a civilian’s duty to watch his own diet for the sake of health, and with a view to conserving sugar, this is recommended a good idea. If the nickels which are spent for in-between meal snacks went for some of the things lacking in most diets, tomatoes, oranges, grapefruit, green cabbage, and raw salad greens, for instance, students would be get ting' a much better balanced diet as well as conserving sugar, ac cording to Miss Mabel Wood, head of the home economics de partment. Fruits for Sweets To keep up with the demand for fruits in place of sweets, ap ples are now on sale at near campus confectioners. Milk is one of the foods being stressed as a necessity for every one. At least one serving of to rn a t o e s , oranges, grapefruit, green cabbage, or raw salad greens are considered essential every day as well as one or more servings of leafy, green, or yel low vegetablees. This information is being passed on to the public in a bulletin issued by the gov ernment. Other essentials for every day’s menu include one egg, at least one serving of lean meat, poultry, or fish, a minimum of two serv ings of whole grain products or eenriched bread, and six or more glasses of water. Less Sweets ? Oregon students are eating too much unnecessary sweets, ac cording to Miss Wood. Cokes and candy bars are a chief source of sugar which is not really essen tial for a healthy diet. During the first World War the Oregon campus became quite conscious of the necessity to con serve sugar, and Miss Lillian Tingle, home economics teacher at that time, amazed the whole state with her economizing rec ipes. "Sans everything’’ was the name she gave her first wonder recipe for a cake made without sugar, milk, butter, or eggs. In a lecture on food conservation she told her audience that she had made some very delicious soup that day with apple rinds boiled in water with a table spoon of peanut butter added, A complete survey of wasted food on the eaprpus was made, and it was determined that the 165 men from the University who had enlisted could be fed on the food that was being thrown away. Immediately all houses started saving food and adopted the slo gan, "The University of Oregon will feed its soldiers,’’ St. Mary’s university (Texas) owns a bus for athletic tr ips that holds 53 passengers. FILTERED 1 SMOKING GENUINE FILTERS rOR MEDICS PACtOB ONLY IN THIS RED « BLAtM BO» 166 Baffle Filter retains flakes-slugs and whirl-cools smoke in Medico pipes, cigarette and cigar holdm. SET YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER and two things you need most are PAINT and WALLPAPER You can stay within your budget by buying; your cleanup needs at Unger’s. We buy in ear loads. You save the difference. 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