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Army 'Prose'
Glorifies
Soldiers Life
Many University of Oregon
students will be affected by the
latest rulings of the selective ser
vice board which announced that
men who registered February 16
would be immediately classified
and some would be inducted into
service in May or June.
The possibility of immediate
induction would apparently de
pend on the particular needs in
local districts and of course, on
the physical rating of the “ap
plicant.”
Don’t Worry
In the mail was a little leaflet
prepared by the United States
government on “Soldier’s Life.”
I quote: “Soldier’s LIFE in the
United States Army holds for the
active, adventurous, red-blooded
young man an extensive variety
of interests. In few other walks
of life, except for the most aflu
ent, are there to be found such an
abundance of opportunity for par
ticipation in interesting, instruc
tive and beneficial activities,
which combine to develop mind
and body. Character, self-reliance,
a broader conception of the mean
ing of American citizenship;
strong, healthy physique—all of
these are to be gained by a young
man during an enlistment in the
United States Army.” ( I would
comment but I am afraid of the
FBI.)
Soldier’s Travel: "Traveling
with the Army is an interesting
and instructive experience.”
Soldier’s Athletics: “The slo
gan, ‘The Army Builds Men’ is no
idle boast. In addition to stimu
lating field maneuvers, (!) the
daily setting-up exercises and the
daily drill routine, there are
healthful athletic pursuits at ev
ery station.”
Discipline: “Army discipline,
while necessarily firm, is en
forced with kindness and justice.”
All that stuff you hear about ser
geants is Axis propaganda.
Iluppy Day
Passes— Furloughs. The last
paragraph on this statement is
filled with exhilirating promise.
"Soldiers are encouraged to visit
their parents when practicable
and to keep up a correspondence
with their relatives and friends.
(After all, dad, .?'!! only goes so
far.) Mother’s Pay is featured by
the Army as an event."
Soldier’s Clothing: “The Amer
ican soldier is smartly clothed
and equipped. Upon initial enlist
ment he is outfitted with all the
clothing he will need. When his
clothes are worn out through fair
wear and tear in the service, they
may be turned in and similar new
articles drawn in their stead."
The fair wear and tear has me
intrgued. What if the tear was
not fair ? Recent articles have
said that General Douglas Mac
Arthur went over the top in
France with the seat out of his
pants. Could that possibly be an
example where the wear and tear
was not fair and just darn well
like it MacArthur?
Future
Retirement: “While no one
likes to think of old age, never
theless it is a period of life that
all men face. The soldier need not
worry about the future." Don't
mind Uncle Sam. sometimes he
is just a little tactless.
To those of you preparing to
meet your sergeant perhaps the
above quotations will give you
some idea of what the United
States Army is offering in their
blurbs. Perhaps any resemblance
to actual conditions will be pure
ly coincidental.
Oregon W Emerald
The Oregon Daily Emerald, published daily during the college year except Sunday, Monday, holidays, and examination
periods by the Associated Students, University o£ Oregon. Subscription rates : $1.25 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered as second
class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.
Represented for national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., college publishers’ representative, 420
Madison Ave., New York—Chicago—Boston—Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle.
HELEN AN CELL, Editor Associate Editors: Hal Olney, Fritz Timmen FRED O. MAY, Business Manager
Kay bchrick, Managing Editor Jack Billings, News Editor Betty Jane Biggs, Advertising Manager
The ASUO Presidency
• • •
'J'lIE nomination of two or more candi
dates for ASUO president at Tuesday’s
assembly—depending upon the outcome of
last night’s bloc meeting—makes choosing an
ASUO president somewhat of a stereotyped
affair. There are only a few who, under such
circumstances, give much consideration to
the real qualifications of the man they are
supporting.
If one becomes an idealist about this mat
ter of politics, it might be interesting to look
back through the years at a man considered
at the end of his term of office as “the fines
student body president the ASUO has had in
years. ' Perhaps it will strike some spark of
desire to see that next year’s president be
intelligent, understanding, and as impartial
as is humanly possible.
* # #
JET us look at the record of Barney Hall,
ASUO chief in 1937-1938. The Emerald,
at the time of his retirement, declared “He
Avill he remembered as one of the wisest, most
tolerant, and intelligent men ever to wield
the official gavel. . . . Hall’s ability to rec
ognize the rights of his constituents has been
matched by his conscientious service to the
University and the associated students.
Democratic in the extreme and more than
willing to listen to all the sides of any sit
uation, President Hall has nevertheless been
firm in his decisions. . . . Never a politician,
Barney came to the presidency quietly, served
firmly but quietly, and is retiring with the
same unassuming modesty. ...”
The now-yellowed files of the Emerald
provide interesting fields for reminiscence.
Reviewing Barney Hall’s regime is an incen
tive to believing that “it can happen here”
and that University of Oregon students have
admiration and respect for upholding the
process of student; democracy. It’s spring
again and election time. It has happened here.
A Voice from the Past...
18 will probably seem like a voice from
tbe far distant past, but I have come to
owe the Emerald and those who work on it
quite a debt.
“It seems a far cry from your sorority
house—the guys and the gals that circulat
ed around in those good old peaceful days.
“A week ago I arrived here in Fort Ben
ning, Georgia, to go to officer school. For
the past several months 1 have been travel
ling far enough and fast enough that my mail
from home has been very rare: Knowing this
it won’t be hard to imagine my pleasure at
finding in a pile of discarded newspapers here
in the barracks an issue of the Emerald.
Luckily it was the issue containing the list
of Oregon service men and I was able to
learn the whereabouts of a lot of fellows I
was very close to at one time. ...”
# # #
many similar letters such as this have
reached the Emerald editor's desk thank
ing' Ibem for the issue which the shack work
ers last term dedicated to Oregon men in the
services.
Messages of gratitude showing that Web
foots are wearing the United States uniform
in all corners of the world—even as far off as
Spain—have poured in, touched that the cam
pus still remembers them and are grateful for
publishing the long list of Oregon men in
arms so that they know where tlieir friends
of the “peaceful days” are doing “their bit.”
*
, JN trendies, in war vessels, or in training
for these responsibilities, the men remem
ber the “days at Oregon” and one letter
closes:
“. . . It is impossible to tell ‘when or if
over’ any of the ‘has beens’ will get back to
our flowered singing campus but all of us
are hoping to soon. It is one of the tilings
we talk about most. It is up to you and to
those who come to school after you to keep
our school for us so that we will be able to
come there when this is over.”—B.J.B.
From
Qa^utaL Ja Qamp^td.
By JAY KIl’HTEK
ACP's Washington Correspondent
JUtSS . . .
The Civil Service commission faces a tremen
dous task. Recent passage of the Ramspeck amend
ment brings 85 per cent of federal jobs—an all
time high—under commission scrutiny. Workers in
non-war agencies must be funneled into at-war
agencies. Countless new workers must be found
and dovetailed into the government army.
This means thousands of potential jobs for
college people, whose specialized training is eager
ly sought. Often the government is stepping in,
through civil service, to give college people on-the
job training—“majors" in lines where they are
needed most.
An example is the recent move to enlist col
lege women for "men's work." As laboratory
aides in army arsenals, they inspect gauges used in
testing ordnance materials. Coeds who wish such
jobs should have at least two years of college
work, including some physics, chemistry and trigo
nometry. The goal of civil service is 100 girls a
month for the next 10 months. Initial pay, $1620
annually.
Although about 87 per cent of government
jobs are "in the field," as Washingtonians blithely
dismiss the United States, some are located here
in the capital. Don't take too seriously what you
read and hear of crowded and costly living condi
tions here. A salary of $2000 here is equal, roughly,
to one of $1S00 in a city of comparable size. Living
quarters are crowded, to be sure, but turn-over
of tenants is high. Which means you’ll always find
a place if you watch closely and jump quickly.
If you were one of the some 16,000 college
people who filed with civil service last month
for a “junior professional assistant’’ job. it may
interest you to know the exams won’t be given
until this spring. April's the best guess.
It’s open season ‘indefinitely’’ on seniors and
graduates in chemistry, physics and engineering.
So hot is the pursuit that civil service has aban
doned competitive examinations in these fic-Ms—
probably for the duration. Simply show on your
application blanks that you have had reqi site
training. In the case of successful candidate, who
are seniors, “provisional appointments’'
made. Which means jobs, come spring and v abl
ation.
You il be classed as a “junior professional as
sistant” with starting pay $2000 a year, although
many agencies will try to get you for less . . .
unless you say on your blank that you won’t
take less.
Others of Uncle Samuel’s favorite nephews
and nieces are economists. Currently favored are
those with at least two years of graduate work
or experience. Successful application through civil
service may bring a job paying from $2600 to
$5600.
Nothing"
Sacred
By J. SPENCER MILLER
One of the most publicized ro
mances on the campus came to a
sudden end when Beta Bob Koch
KISSED OFF Gamma Phi Betty
Kincaid last night. Now the mil
lion and one campus males can
resume their pursuit of the ubiq
uitous Miss Kincaid. We hadda
hunch Koch would give her the
brush, too.
Who stole the tombstone out of
the grave yard and left it on the
Theta Chi's front porch, lovingly
inscribed “Pledge Erasmus Q.
Fink, murdered by a Theta Chi
meal” ? The Sigma Kappa pldeg
es held their walkout that same
night. Could be a connection ?
Beta Rolph Fuhrman has been
doing all his piggin’ down at the
old hangout, the Fee house. Bid
Shade of the Phi Del: tong has
been going out more than con
stantly with Theta Janet Parker.
So Sunday for no apparent rea
son at all, Fuhrman hangs his**
“oven door” on the aforemen
tioned Miss Parker . . . Oh well,
it's spring term. Bill of the ATO’s
and four-point Moshofsky’s put
his cross on the blouse of Nell
Carpenter, the Gamma Phi’s new
est pledge. Which makes the
Taus one of the most democratic
houses on the campus. They’ve
got pins in practically every
house.
Peas-in-a-pod . . . Theta Betty
Rathbun and Chi Oh Helen Crites,
a product of Havaii.
More quotes on our desert isle
contest. . . .
Bob Whitely—“My one red cof^
puscle wouldn't stand it.”
H. Logan Penny (He hangs
around the Emerald office) “I’m
afraid the Japs might come.”
Don Galbreaith—“I'm joining
the Marines.”
The wisenheimers continue to
pour it onto Fee Betty Edward
for Bodwell’s lightning pin job.
Emerson Page, collecting a 15
cent debt from her, held his The
taki pin in his hand and said,
“Won’t you wear my fraternity
pin too, Miss Edward?” His left
ear may be found draped over
the Oregana office as a warning
to any future comedians. , . The
YWCA is sponsoring the ticket
sale of the “Man Who Came to
Dinner,” which is one of the most’*”
risque movies to be produces in sm
long time-We saw ATO Bob
ivicuonaict this morning and he;
was actually shaved — Coopera
tion seems to ho the password at
both the Chi Psl and DC houses.
The Lodgemen spent all clay Sat
urday cleaning up the mil, ace,
and the DUs have been working
steadily on a cleanup program
in their backyard. A little more
spirit like this around here
wouldn’t hurt anyone. . . .
We're toying with the idea of
promoting a contest to find the
BLACKEST MAN ON THE
CAMPUS—outside of ourselves.
Candidates sent in will be given
adequate publicity on these pag- —
es. Oh well, another enemy or
two won’t hurt, and to close off
our daily tripe we will give you
all a little poem (Not for the
Junior Weekend contest either).
Here it is with all its stench. . . .
Roses are red
Blue is the sky;
Isn’t Pat Farrell
A cute Pi Phi?
ankle—the brother of our fath
er or mother.
bed—anything that isn't good,
nitrates—cheaper than day
day rates.
camphor—a fire that you build
outside in the woods,
ducky—wife of a duck,
voice—poetry that rhymes,
denial—river in Egypt.
—Lebanon Hi-Light.