tf-utuAe. 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.