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A Record in Voting
jpOR the second consecutive year the University of Oregon
student body activity endorsed the 1940 executive com
mittee’s action making every student on the campus eligible to
vote in ASUO elections without paying a poll tax. The largest
percentage of the student body ever to turn out for a campus
election went to the polls yesterday, when ballots were east
by 64 per cent of the'eligible voters.
There were 1892 ballots counted by the official election
board last night, as compared with 1903 last year. A 14 per
cent drop in enrollment makes the percentage of the student
body voting six per cent greater than last year’s turnout.
In state and national elections a 64 per cent turnout of
eligible voters is a Utopian situation. Until last year, when
the vote was thrown open to every student on the campus in
lieu of the previous $15 ASIJO ticket requirement, it was.a
purely idealistic dream at the University of Oregon as well.
* * *
JpOR if one will look back through the years, no such total
was ever chalked up until a free vote was offered the
students. A 25 per cent vote was considered good in the pre
1941 days. Tiger Payne defeated John Cavanagh for the presi
dency in 1940 in an election which drew only TOO voters. John
Dick the previous year won the number one spot in a 675-vote
balloting. Seven hundred votes were tabulated in the Kemler
Weston election of 1938.
The new interest evidenced by ASUO members since uni
versal suffrage became a part of the election program may be
an indication of what can be expected in class elections next
year.
'The deplorable lack of interest in the class elections and
the “back seat” given candidates for those offices has been
largely due, it would appear, to the Independent-Greek con
troversy on the issue of class cards as an indication of the
right to vote.
With that issue cleared up for next year, perhaps class
activities can come back into their rightful place in the Uni
versity setup and class elections can assume their normal right
to a little attention. Granting every student the right to vote
has been the inspiration of a complete new "attitude of inter
est in tin; ASUO elections. Every student is now aware, and is
interested in, the outcome of the student body presidency race.
Perhaps a “new deal" in class affairs is on its way. too.
From
CafLiioi ta Ga+nfuil
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By JAY RICHTER
ACP’s Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON— (AGP) —Sec
retary of War Stimson has an
nounced that 100,000 men and wo
men will be trained for civilian
war jobs—inspectors at govern
ment factories, depots and arsen
als; production workers, etc.— in
government and state - owned
schools. Students will be paid
$900 to $1,440 a year while in
training. (Men trained must be
outside" selective service re
quirements.)
* * *
Civil service here in Washing
ton virtually assures stenogra
phers a job within one week of
filing an application. Within the
next few weeks Civil Service
must furnish 1,000 stenographers
to Washington war agencies.
Typing and shorthand skills
are an excellent entering wedge
if you are interested in working
I
for Uncle Sam and can’t discov
er any vacancies in your field.
Your chances of transferring to
the kind of work for which you
me especially trained are termed
"very good" if the specialty you
are seeking ties in with the war
effort.
War . . .
More than 5 per cent of the
nation's 20-year-olds who regis
tered in the last draft are college
students—some 136,700 of them.
They were assigned order num
bers March 17 and prospects of
an early military career are very
real for most of them.
The War Department says that
beginning June 1, quotas will
pi obably call for men in both the
first i21-35l age group and the
second age group (20-year-olds
and 36-45 year olds).
Local boards have been in
structed to mail questionnaires
to registrants in the second age
Nothing
Sacred
j By J. SPENCER MILLER jj
Roses are red
Too bad Miller’s column isn’t.
Who sends us this lousy poetry,
anyway? Please stop it because
we can find some other way to
fill space. And another thing—
the person that writes us anony
mous letters containing notorious
bits about some of our better
known campus big-guns ought to
check up on some of them. Hal
Morgan assures us that he hasn’t
walked home from the libe with
a Kappa for three years, as this
undercover agent reported. . . .
RAMBLINGS OF AN ITINER
ANT COLUMNIST ... A cer
tain DeeGee, whose name we have
sworn never to mention, is now
^oing steady with ATO Ox Wil
son, something that we advised
her to do quite a while back—
The dorm looked like a DU an
nex yesterday with various and
sundry Anderson campaigners
blanketing that whole place. Ed
Moshofsky was right in there
pitching . . . Steve Worth and his
boys were seen on Alder street
doing a little last minute vote
collecting . . . John (Honest, I’m
Honest) Buster-ud'was surprising
ly in class . . . All in all, this
campaign was as dirty as they
make ’em with each side slinging
an equal amount of dirt.
Someone sent us a complete
list of the members of TNE, and
the names of the boys would sur
prise a lot of people.
“Hairy Joe” Montag has been
elected president of the pin-ball
set at the Side. Joe was picked
for his ability to shake the ma
chine successfully without tilting
it, the fact that he has won more
free games than anybody at the
Side or Bird, and the smooth way
he smokes a butt from the corner
of his mouth.
10-SECOND BIOGRAPHY . . .
Harry “the Greek” Prongas —
Has the most likeable conceit on
the campus—is a great organizer
(athletic* card, student defense,
and all-star game chairmanships)
-Longest time he has ever gone
steady is two weeks. Says girls
can’t interest him any longer—
Can be found at the Side any time
from 10 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
About 20 guys are wondering
including 10 Theta Chis just what
Sigma hall's Don Jones, who is
also Emerald staff fotographer,
has on the ball. He's been going
steady for three terms with
AOPi Betty Leist, while every
body and his brother try to date
her. Some guys just got it! . . .
There’s a little more on the “Tex
as” Coffee deal. She fluffed Beta
Jim Otis without any explana
tion, but SAE Jim Marnie might
have had something to do with it.
Now, Marnie is NOT dating her
and Phi Delt Al' Hunt is rumored
to be next on the list.
group in “sufficient numbers to
insure filling of the June call en
tirely from this age group if nec
essary.’’
* * *
According to an OCD survey
of 100 college newspapers, more
than half are sending the school
paper free of charge to former
students now in military service.
The University of Hawaii was
included in the survey, but a let
ter from Frederick Tom, presi
dent of the Hawaiian A. S. U.,
explained that the student news
paper couldn’t answer the ques
tionnaire because publication
stopped Dec. 7. Enrollment has
dropped 65 per cent; almost the
entire staff of the paper, Ka Leo
O Hawaii, has left school.
Coeds at the University of Ver
mont sewed white uniforms for
ski troops in the university's
ROTC unit.
new- Bataan . . .
What Does MacArthur Offer
After the Battle is Over?
. . . ^ Brilliant Record
By BILL HAIGHT
A short news story from Sydney, Australia states that General
Douglas MacArthur has named his Australian headquarters “Ba
taan,” as a tribute to the jnen he led in the Philippines. Perhaps the
circumstances of the war today are moving, with a celerity to the
Indian scene that it would seem superfluous to comment on the de
fense of the Bataan region. However, Joseph Ralston Hayden, Ph.D.,
LL.D., vice-governor of the Phil
ippines from 1933-35 and for six
months an acting governor, has
written an interesting book, "The
Philippines,” that has a most ar*
resting paragraph in it, page
745.
I quote: “The MacArthur-Que
zon defense plans seems to vir
tually ignore the strategic conse
quences of the fact that the Phil
ippines is a far flung archipelago.
The program’s greatest weakness
as a system of truly national de
fense lies in its failure to provide
any naval protection worthy of
serious consideration for a coun
try which consists of an isolated
group of islands scattered
through a thousand miles of
ocean.”
Pre-War
The book was written before
the war and Mr. Hayden’s esti
mate of the MacArthur plans
carries an arresting accuracy. He
also points out the need for great
er air force, and I suppose apolo
gizes for the condition by saying
he believes the two men were re
lying primarily on outside aid to
care for the defects pointed out
in their plans.
The United States plan had
been to use the Philippines as a
delaying action and not in any
sense to try to hold them. Yet
General MacArthur announced in
a speech in 1935 to the Philippine
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Jla&t...
By MARY WOLF
I never saw a vitamin
I never hope to see one
But this I will say anyhow
I’d rather C than B 1.
—Franklin Post.
* * *
Well it’s 11:30 and time for me
to go to lunch. I haven’t A watch
so I just leave a half hour before"
the noon whistle.
—Franklin Post.
A buck private from the TJSA
receives the second highest pam
per month of any of the nations
now at war, and it’s hundreds of
times larger than that which Jap
anese military men are given.
The highest salary is received
by a private of Australia who is
paid $62 a month, with the raise
which recently was voted putting
the United States second with
$42 per month. Germany gives
her fighting men $21, while sol
din , of Great Britain get $12.3$T
But the Japanese soldier hits an
all-time low with his monthly sal
ary of only 37 cents!—Daily Cali
fornian.
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By TED HALLOCK
Voltaire was reet. Rousseau
might have been ready. But there
is a new immortal now. But solid
est of all was the cat who deliv
ered undoubtedly the very fun
niest remarque of all time at this
Saturday night jig.
As we are walking through the
door into Gerlingerian expanse,
this individual is nailing us, re
plete with deadpan, and making
with the tremendous item to fol
low: “Get your program. You
can't tell the jerks from the mu
sicians with a program.” So be
ing knocked clear out by this very
witty witticism, we are compli
menting him once more upon
leaving the “session.” Isn't that
terrific ?
This weekend comes the debut
of a new, and fine, quintet upon
yea campii. Gordon Duncan Wim
press, brings four adjacent cats to
the DG manse for a Friday nite
bash. And the classic is they are
but good. Phil Jonsrud of ex-Ed
die Gipson tenor fame, playing,
oddly enough, tenor; Bob Sell,
ATO and swell guy, on bass; A1
Kasmeyer, of root pegs and dark
glasses fame, trumpet; and G.
Dune W., tubs. 88'er unknown at
present.
This Weekend
This weekend also come out
like the cocoon the new T. H.
ork. Graciously devoting three
hours to the Tri-Delt house Fri
day even, and likewise to the Pi
Kaps on Saturday, these eleven
men with the mind of one (and
intellect of two) will make with
music of the deep south (side)
like sixty. Have it known also
that this noble crew is keddying
on vahliauntli in spite of the fact
that brother Vein Winkler of lo
cal 689 and national stinker’s un
ion fame grabbed three men last
week. Gene (ivory tower)
Chas. (I regret that I have but
one Buescher 2-A to hock) Nel
son, and' Johnny (Gawd, how I’ve
suffered) Kohp. Only Nelson has
eluded the Svengalian clutches of
Bela Minkler, leaving money mad
Leo and Kohp to prostitute their
respective arts.
Jazz Lecture
The long heralded Jazz lecture,
as envisioned initially by Hoyt
Franchere, professor of English,
will take place Thursday evening
at Chapman hall. Various record
ed goodies, representative of the
emotional release of the pre and
post-war periods will be in evi
dence. Such cherished pieces -
“That Man of Mine Had Better
Come Back Before the Alarm
Clock Goes Off and Scares This
Love Away Blues” will be found
aplenty. ■ -»
And here is you little fact for
the day: Did you know that Jean
Taylor, of the by-now duly ac
credited Alpha Phis, has a bro
ther who is named Al, odd enough,
Taylor, who plays fine clarinet
and alto in Hollywood moom pic
and radio studios and knows Nick
Fatool? H-m-m-m-m? Well, she
does.
And here are two unverified,
but nice, facts for the day: ac
cording to Earl Walters and vari
ous Betas, Tom Dorsey is on his
way up; according to Walt Web
er, DU at Corvallis, and one unr^
dentified trombone man who
plays good incidentally, Jack Tea
garden will play in Salem next
week, though not in Portland.
Good-bye.