Nothing
Sacred
By J. SPENCER MILLER
Scene: Lunch time at the Kap
pa house—House prexy Ruth Hall
stands to make an announcement,
“Girls, Fiji John Schaeffer is
hack on the campus! You know
what that means.”
Same scene repeated at several
other prominent sororities. Well,
some guys just got it. . . .
DUCK POURRI . . . Why does
Chi O Nancy Valentine keep
turning down Sig Ep Keith Hop
pes when he asks her for dates ?
Can it be because Val is always
busy? . . . Fee Jeanette Torney
(one of the few Fee naturals)
and Beta Warren “Pancho” Finke
may be back on the beam again.
They’ve been seeing quite a bit of
each other lately. . . . DeeGee
Jeanne Younger has been dating
as much as a freshman, but she
still is loyal to her Sigma Chi in
the army .... Alpha hall’s pride
Amerieo "Call Me Benny” DiBen
ledetti got the RKO by Sigma
Kappa, Charlotte Allen, who is
now going with Thetaki Jack
Martin so he is going to the mov
ies. ...
The AOPis, with the help of
their houseboys, are trying to
break up the Don Jones-Betty
Deist combination. We hope they
don't get away with it.
The Junior Parly failed to
show. They had a swell band, lots
of ice cream and cake, everyone
knew about it, and there was
nothing else doing at the time. So,
out of 700 juniors, about 90
showed up. The fellows stood
around in one corner, and the girls
stood around in another. Then,
the girls (especially the Theta
crew) got tired of waiting for the
bashful men to ask them to dance,
so they went home. If a guy
hasn’t got enough nerve to ask
a girl to dance by the time he’s
a junior in college, then there’s
no hope left . . . Carolyn Loud
stayed to the end though, along
with Queen Ellie and the AOPi
trio. . . .
SigmaNoo Iiuss Nowling and
Gamma Phi “Squirrel” Hunting
ton have found each other. . . .
Is Omega hall’s F.d Lawson
hooked at last? Pearl Jean Wil
son, who was an ADPi on the
campus last year, brought her
folks down to visit Ed, and his
close friends insist he’s caught
and doesn’t know it. . . . The poor
sucker! .... Sigma Chi Art
(8-H) Hannifin and Kappa Bob
bie Neu didn’t last very long, and
now he’s doing his pigging down
Fee way ... By the way, there
wasn't a single Kappa at the jun
ior party — as a matter , of fact
the Kappas make it a point to
snub most school affairs. They
ought to let their hair down some
time and see what it's like.
Buck Buchwach has been scon
in various local spots with very
cute Beverly Brunton, the “Ging
ham Girl" of Eugene high. Plenty
of campus "shots” have been in
quiring around about her and
just how fat the ubiquitous Buck
was in . . . Jean Bilker and full
Murphy are on fire again, while
Happy Jack lamsing goes on his
merry way after a short stand on
Baker’s porch. . . . Tiger Payne
vacates the UO for a long time
next week when he leaves for
Pensacola, Florida and the Naval
Air Corps . . . One of our agents
informs us that Kappaz “get
around” girl, “Susie” Margason,
is moving into the Keid Farrell
league. Which ought to bum
“Scrappy” Rhea, Tee Roblin,
Chuck Boiee, and the two dozen
other guys she's been going out
with. . , .
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<JIoaaj ia Scm 9t . . .
rJMIERE have been hints from Washington
during, the last few weeks that President
Roosevelt may soon create a central Ministry
of Information to coordinate the government
publicity activities of the many federal de
partments now engaged in propagandizing the
government.
The thought of a “ministry of'informa
tion’’ has an oddly distasteful sound to de
mocracy-loving Americans, a sound that does
not exactly set right with their fears for a
free press. A ministry of information has a
Hitlerian ring in its centralization and au
thoritarian ramifications.
But to flut the centralization method
aside because its proposed name has unpleas
ant suggestiveness is to overlook a broader
view of the problem.
Somehow Americans, particularly young
ones, have got to be niade to “believe.” They
don’t now. The average college student marks
two-thirds of what he reads as “propaganda”
if it shows any opinion whatsoever. Govern
ment publications, particularly, are scoffed
at as mere publicity in almost every instance.
* * #
^yNE of the chief factors contributing to
this growing opinion is the great mass
of conflicting, haphazard, duplicating publi
cations now being printed by Washington.
Newspaper offices are flooded with “official
information” from OFF and its subsidiary
branches of the government.
And yet their role in keeping America a
democracy today cannot be underestimated.
rPhe nation is becoming annually more bu
reaucratic in nature, more technical in con
struction. It is like a highly-sensitive machine
spreading its tentacles out and out further
into the realms of private life. If there
is to be any provision for the education of
future leaders, any education of the mass of
Americans to what these government depart
ments are accomplishing, a good part of it
must come from official government reports
to the people.
These publicity releases, confusing as they
may be in number, serve to stave off apathy
which easily might come to a public if it came
to feel that the whole Washington scene was
too involved for any understanding.
* * *
rJ"'HERE seems to be little real difference,
as long as Washington is to go in for the
publicity business, between “editors” in 10
buildings sending out material and one chief
man coordinating the material. Archibald
MacLeish, who wrote poetry for a living until
the President named him OFF head, is the
most talked-of man for the new job. He has
a reputation for truth and facts. In his present
OFF position he dictates the general trend of
all news releases. If moved up to head infor
mation man for the whole government, he
would simply see that they definitely fol
lowed the suggested trend.
Government publicity, in any form, -is as
dangerous as dynamite. Put as long as it
seems to have come to stay as a part of the
American brand of democracy, it is only de
stroying its own purpose by presenting such
a mixed-up, confused picture by coming from
so many sources. Americans will ignore its
worth entirely until they can see what this
new Washington press is doing, until the news
is made digestible and creates for itself a
reputation of dignity and truth. Until there
is some centralization, the money spent on
government publicity is not fulfilling its
purpose.
feomlti+uji. . . .
Today the Axis Meets
To Plan the New Campaign
9t cMa i. to be.
By BILL HAIGHT
British ami American bombers have been roaring: over the
English channel to occupied ports, and cities in the German
nation for eight violent days. Approximately 4000 allied planes
have rained indescribable horror down on the puppets of the
Nazi overlords.
Neutral sources assert that the submarine base at 'Proud
neim was utterly destroyed. Ros
tock, German Baltic port, has vir
tually been wiped out, leaving
hulks of loaded ships, fragments
of filled freight cars, and more
than 4000 people killed or
maimed.
No Joy
There is no joy m hearing of
such news but it indeed would be
a strange person that could not
help but feel the continuation of
such devastation by our planes is
necessary and in this curious
world good news.
These bombings are a complete
repudiation of what Hitler and
satellites have told the German
people. Fi'om the beginning of
the war the misguided Germans
have been absolutely assured Al
lied planes would not inflict
heavy damage on the Third Reich.
After the raids of the past eight
days, Herr Goebbels sent trucks
equipped with loud speakers to
the bombed areas and boosted
the morale of the people with
messages from the Fuehrer.
Today, Hitler, Mussolini, and
the Japanese ambassador to Ger
many meet at Munich for a con
ference. Such conclaves normal
ly represent the beginning of
some major move. As usual since
the war such g'et-togethers carry
peace feelers to the world and
this meeting is no exception.
French sources have reported
a nine-page memorandum has
been submitted to the British.
The pages include: 1. Britain and
the United States to recognize
German control in Europe. Ger
many being prepared to consider
Anglo-Saxon suggestions for ap
plication of the “new order’’ on
the continent.
2. Germany to annex such
Russian territories as she consid
ered necessary to her “living
space.’’ (Joe ought to enjoy that
one.)
3. Germany to control virtually
all of the French. Dutch and Bel
gian colonial possessions.
What Next?
If the allied powers accepted
the above proposals Germany
would undertake to: 1. recognize
the British empire in its present
form. 2. To recognize control of
Latin America by the United
States both in political and eco
nomic spheres. 3. To collaborate
in setting up a system of trade
between the three “empires";
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By TED HALLOCK
Oh so sorry. Honorable Sonny
Dunham not to play in Salem to
night or tomorrow night. Oh yes.
Oh so Hon. Dunham to play ou
May 20. He play in Hon. Armory
and for samey price. Sixty hun
nerts for one.
Called the Oregon Statesman
offices in capital city as of Tues
day eve last and no ads for Son
ny had come in yet, so no soap.
Samey with Harry Jamey. Too
bad. Also, Jackson Tea will play
only eight days in the rose city,
stead of ten as was said'. But if
you all read the cosmopolite
sheets you know. If you read.
Return
Good news for the odd Thetas
et all is with Richard Carlton of
the Arizona commuting Carltons,
who returns to our fair and hom
ey campus this Friday even to
spend a pleasant weekend with
friends at the several odd thou
sand house dances with emphasj^,
on the odd.
Mayhap two of you heard the
jazz broadcast last night on
KOAC at eight. Usual history of
the stuff with a fine combo play
ing, and like the real boys did.
“Arty” Scott dug some extremely
well cooked jazzy cornet, whilst
Geney Leo of the physical educa
tion plant played hots black and
white. It was good.
To give a subtle idea of the
rather jerky school we go to,
with its war scarish preventa
tives, antidotes for radical be
havior (no desserts, name bands),
we shall present herewith, S£y«
ples from various other similar
institutions. Gray Gordon playing
a tea dance at Michigan State.
Charlie Barnet playing a swing
concert at Ann Arbor for Michi
gan U. Glenn Miller playing the
Senior Prom, and a thirty minute
Victory rally, at U.S.C. Harry
James playing the Junior Prom
at U.C.L.A., and with two other
bands on the same stand. Horace
Heidt at a fifteen minute defense
stamp thing at Cal. Nice to have
Art around, isn’t it?
Tune News
There are some good discs^Btit
lately. Mainly because of the war.
The waxorys have so little in pri
orities that only the best stuff
can be released. By coincidence,
of course, Glenn was cut down
to only 37,000 pressings per week.
The mellowest stuff is mainly
Goodman’s. “String of De Mau
passaunt’s” is reet. Not like Mil
ler’s uninteresting riff in mono
tone, it boasts a background of
the theme, with a fine foreground
of Mel Powell tinklings. Then, in
succession, a good Lou McGar
itty tram solo, fine Vido Musso
tenoring, and a good bunch of
finale notes by the King.
After this week's Spotlight
shots, a good band to watch ?s
Thornhill’s. Plenty of guts, but
polish, and mainly, sensible, not
novel, dynamics. That’s all.
Germany’s, Britain's, and Amer
ica’s.
Of course the whole plan has
been repudiated and if the past
is any indication all hell should
break loose on the eastern and
possibly western fronts in Eur
ope.
Burma will most likely this
week be listed with Hong' Kong',
Singapore and the Dutch East
Indies despite the gallant and
thrilling dogfights of the Ameri
can “Tiger Squadron.” This black
news is somewhat lightened by
the terrific toll of Axis plants,
ports, and towns from Norway te^,
France.
A 15-week course in aircraft
drafting is offered at Wayne uni
versity.