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By J. SPENCER MILLER
Add Signs of Spring—The Hen
hall gal that sits by her window
looking disgustedly at her text
book the restless stir of the boys
when Chi O Lois Hafele and an
unnamed Pi Phi (very nice) stroll
through the libe — the open door
of the Falcon and the notes of
Benny Goodman’s “Winter Wea
ther” coming from inside (mark
ing the end of that kind of weath
er) — guys and gals in shorts
and slacks flocking to the tennis
courts — convertibles speeding
through the campus (especially
the Sigma Chis)—the baseballs
that take such a beating on the
pavement in front of every men’s
living org — the friendly grins
of the Alpha Chis wrestling on
their front lawn—the increase of
the brass women are toting — At
any rate any number of reasons
why Uncle Sunshine is around to
stay for awhile.
Mud Kaoe Dept.—Gamma Phi
Suzie Huffaker and Ted Hallock
are cold mush for breakfast,
lunch, and dinner, but Sig Ep
Johnny Mathews has taken over
and everyone seems to be very
happy over the whole deal. Both
deny a pin-planting as Gee Dunk
Wimpress won't give up his in
terest in Brother Mathews pin to
allow him to plant it on Suzie—
We wonder why the dismembered
Zeta hallmen never received their
cup for winning the dorm bas
ketball? They were broken up
right after winning. . . .
“Eyes Right”
The Pi Phi's second story ac
tivities are giving the all-night
air raid watchers a bad time.
The boys want to send them a
special request to let them alone
so they can be all set to spot Jap
airplanes—Alpha Phi Joan Tay
lor must have some connection
with A TO Bob Fugit. She sits in
Shakespeare section dividing her
time between taking notes and
drawing Mr. Fugit’s name around
a scrawled heart. (We thought
Rog Dick was in fat here) . . . .
Talking about the Fees here's a
little pome dreamed up about
them. . . .
Some girls go out
With guys like me
But sure do wish
I could date a Fee.
If that meant any special Fee it
would be Betty Edwards, a gal
with plenty on the ball. . . .
Dee Gee Edie Borda is still
wondering who the two slaphappy
lad.i are that called her up, said
they were the Eugene police
dept., and commanded her to re
port at 8 o’clock the next morn
to answer speeding charges.
Twenty minutes later another
anonymous voice called telling her
it was a hoax. If she wants to
know who the lads are, send us
a self-addressed stamped envel
ope. (We know.)
Another Poll
Just for the heck of it we are
going to take our own poll. Some
time between now and the next
column we are going to call ev
ery living org (male and female),
and ask the phone-answerer;
“Who is the best date-girl on the
campus?" The results will be an
nounced here. This is bound to be
an honest contest because only
one person in each house can vote
. . . So long.
The only person who can run
other people down, and yet re
tain his popularity, is the eleva
tor operator.— Lamron.
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Next to getting a free meal,
the prospect of getting into a
group picture will bring out the
largest number of persons.
— Indiana Dally Student.
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^yANT AU DEPARTMENT:
To Give Away: One rally committee chairmanship. See
any member of the ASTJO executive committee.
The end of winter term has come and gone, and the new
constitutional requirement for appointing the 1943 rally squad
before the air becomes polluted with spring term political
promises has only been partially completed. At furtive, be
tween-exams sessions at the end of the term, ASUO heads
interviewed more than 50 prospective rally girls and men
(more than three-fourths of whom were coeds), and picked
six girls, five boys for the squad. As yet, however, they have
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'I'HE main reason is that nobody wants it. It even took the
committee at least two calls to all men’s living organiza
tions to fill out a slate of candidates from whom to choose
the men for the junior posts. When it came to naming the
senio r chairman, there wasn’t a single candidate eligible. A
call to all houses on the night before final choice was to take
place produced one able man, but the committee did not feel
it was fair to choose him unless he gained the position after
standing up against other candidates.
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'yyilY doesn’t anybody want the chairmanship? There are
probably several contributing reasons. First, the draft
and enlistments makes the position of most junior men very
unstable for next year, and only those engaged in upper divi
sion ROTO are at all sure of being on the campus next year.
Secondly, a good many of the possibilities have higher spring
term political hopes which they do not care to jeopardize. But,
in the final analysis, it would seem that the rally committee
chairmanship has become such a football for campus comment
that there aren’t very many men anxious to move into the po
sition. One fellow even termed the chairmanship a “joke”
because the man who gets the job gets nothing but jeers and
a white sweater. The fact that not a single man on this year’s
squad re-applied indicates that, for men, at least, it is not
the most sought-after activity.
One of the biggest ASUO appointments of the year, with a
nine-months free publicity campaign for the top man in white,
and nobody wants it. This must be Utopia.
OneCfGttti talent PaAo&e,..
TJEFORE Hie end of winter term, shortly after the plans
for the revised Junior Weekend were formulated, a short
item appeared in the Emerald. It requested that all students
on the campus interested contribute their talent to the show,
“Of Thee l Sing.” The response was immediate and surpris
ingly large. More than 1J0 names were handed to Horace
Robinson, director of the production. All these answers came
from the one call, with no personal contacts, and in the rush
of a pre-exam week.
it is apparent from the attitude that has been taken
toward the musical, and toward the Sigma Delta Chi variety
show this weekend, that the Oregon campus is willing to co
operate in furnishing its own entertainment for student pro
grams. Big name bands are out of the question, the exigencies
of wartime make it impossible to import talent.
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AM) why, indeed, should talent be imported? With the
amount of interest already displayed in the Junior week
end show, and with the obvious ability available on the cam
pus, Oregon has enough ready-made talent in its own back
yard to put on several shows a year.
It is a commendable attitude for students to take. The
unexpectedly large response, the even greater interest antici
pated after so auspicious a start, should make Oregon stu
dents realize that their school ranks with the best in the coun
try as far as interest in student-sponsored productions is con
cerned.—E. T.
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On the. Pacific
American, British Eastern Forces
Have Their Backs to the Wall
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By DON TREADGOLD
On February 7 this writer declared, “it is a bare possibility that
six months from now we may be driven back to Hawaii, with all
the Far East and China isolated.” This was written with the inten
tion of citing the worst that could happen, though we had a right
to hope for much better.
The Far East is lost. We are not yet driven to Hawaii, fo^
we hold Australia. But in the bare month and a half, not six months,
since February 7, the United Nations have yielded Singapore, Ran
goon, Borneo, Sumatra, Java,
New Guinea, and the Burma Road
has been rendered useless. The
Japanese have reached out and
seized th oil and tin and rubber
of the South Pacific in three
months. If their technicians are
no less adept now than in the
past, we need no longer talk of
Japan’s being a “have-not” na
tion headed for starvation and
bankruptcy. The war machine of
Nippon will not now stall for lack
of materials.
Things Book Black
These catastrophes made the
situation look dark. The week of
February 16 Time called “the
worst week of the war,” when
the Normandie burned, Singapore
fell, our sixteenth tanker was
sunk in the Atlantic, and the
Nazi battleships Scharnhorst and
Gneisenau escaped. Cecil Brown,
CBS correspondent, who survived
the sinking of the Repulse, shriv
eled the British brass hats by
painting a picture of incredible
complacency in the so-called de
fense of Singapore.
This was not the end, as a mat
ter of fact. But it was much
nearer to the end and to defeat
than we ever thought we would
get. To those who thought our
shores safe, the Japs sneered by
pumping shells into a California
refinery while the president him
self spoke to the nation.
There Must Be a Charge
Lt.-Col. W. F. Kernan struck
the national keynote with a little
book entitled Defense Will Not
Win the War, and the people ech
oed him with a howl for offensive
action, and hang the red tape.
We had taken a good stiff dose
of defeat along with a shot of
defeat along with a shot of “too
little and too late,” and we did
not like it. In the one Allied com
mander even holding his own,
Douglas MacArthur, we found a
hero such as we had not had
since Lindbergh, the flyer.
So much is history. The epi
sode was a nasty one, one so nas
ty that we were only given the
truth adulterated by pretty fairy
stories. While the Japs pulver
ized the Asiatic fleet, headlines
featured “Two Jap Planes
Downed,” and told fake tales of
the Chinese invading Siam and
of reinforcements reaching Ba
taan. It was a sad chapter, but
we may hope that it is over,
though we may look for more
bad news along with the good.
If determination and grit mean
anything, MacArthur on Austjg
lia will mean a different story.
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Dwight Morrow, the financier,
was very absent minded. Once,
while traveling on a train, he
could not remember where he had
placed his ticket. The conductor
told him not to bother; he would
take the fiifancier’s word that
had paid his fare.
“It isn't that,” said Morrow,
puzzled. “If I don’t find that tick
et, I won’t know where to go to
deliver my speech tonight.”
—Indiana Daily Student.
The reason for almost all well
upholstered chassis toddling
around the campus is due to two
things; Susies eat too much and
exercise too little. “The best re
ducing exercise I know,” notes
Miss Mary Jane Westcott of the
student health center of Stephens
college, “is shaking the head vig
orously from side to side in re
fusing second helpings.”—Ste
phens Life.
The Horned Frogs of Texasfy
Christian imiversity will have
traveled nearly 8,000 miles in
playing six of their ten games
away from home this season.
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