Oregon Emerald
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<Jle ii Still dle/ie . . .
A LETTER came to the Emerald editor’s office not long
ago from a 1926 graduate of the University of Oregon.
7’he writer, recalling his college days, said, “I remember so
little about the campus now. Bijt there is one person I shall
never forget. Is Proessor Howe still there?”
The records say that Herbert Crombie Howe passed away
after 40 years of service in 1940. But the friendly, vital Eng
lish professor who was admired by generations of students,
came to life last week. “What Other Beauty,” a volume of
100 selected poems by the scholar-poet, was printed last week
by John Henry Nash.
Students who thronged to his popular classes enjoyed
most “conferences” in his musty office in Villard hall. He
liked to talk most of sports, and for years was Oregon’s ath
letic representative in the Pacific Coast conference. Seldom,
until the last year of his life, did he miss a practice session of
the Webfoot squad.
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JT IS his human qualities, his friendliness and his lack of
pretense, that make these poems more than a professor’s
verse. In the words of University Professor Ernest G. Moll,
“Spenser is here; the tranquil Wordsworth; the austere Ar
nold Shelley; . . . for Herbert Crombie Howe knew and loved
them all. . . . But there are other things: the friendly rock;
the flowers he gathered, ‘Dusty, or wet with dew,’ and filled
his house with them, setting them down in their disarray be
cause ‘1 wanted them just as they were.’ . . . This poet took
the world to his heart and warmed it there . . . all but the
crude things, the noisy things, the honking car. the harsh city.
1he stuffy ballroom. From these he turned away, but not
bitterly.”
Here in these poems is Professor Howe himself. In life or
death, he is a living part of the world lie loved so much.
political QumA A(j,ai*i . . .
'’J'llk campus is again bustling with tlie fervor of a political
contest.
Hut. this time there are no bloc lines. Greeks ami Inde
pendents side by side on soap boxes chant "We want Winter
green.” Non-al'filiated students have discarded their lemon
and green Y pin and wear, along with fraternity members, the
badge, “ Wintergreen for President.”
A small minority muttered at tin* lack of opposition. There
are threats of starting a rival party but the junior class, party
leaders of this plebiscite election, are confident of their
success.
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^JAMPAIGN Manager Hob Whitely is not worried, either.
a campus-wide motorized parade and rally is planned for
this evening. Not once will the candidate speak to his voters—
but four times from four advantageous spots near living or
ganizations.
Once they hear Wintergreen's platform, all minority groups
will throw in the sponge and will be wearing the candidate's
badge on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, Manager Whitely
declared.
With a platform of "hove” and with the beautiful bevy
of bathing beauties who help him electioneer, what platform
would be more fitting for "spring term at the U!”—B.J.H.
This Sunday remember that with the soldiers who know
gals the best, it's Mother, two to one.
Nothing
Sacred
By J. SPENCER MILLER
Dick Guske, the genial proprie
tor of the Falcon, is considering
making one of his more difficult
pin-ball machines an air-raid
shelter. If he does, the sign he
puts on it will read,
“Climb under here in case of
air-raid — We’ve never been
HIT!”
The above item is in solemn
memory of the 4,649 nickels that
the Delts, ATOs, Alpha hall, and
Ken Christianson have lost in the
Bird’s infernal machines.
DUCK DIRT . . . DeeGee Mick
ey Mitchell and Beta “Harpo”
Hamilton ran their ship into the
rocks, and the both of them have
been dating everyone in sight.
She went out Saturday night with
Beta Bob Bird of the Washing
ton baseball club . . . One of the
nicest sights we’ve seen for a
long time is the way Chi O Helen
Crites helps blind Harry Lipsit
around the campus . . . SAE Hal
Hartzel seems to have replaced
the Three Musketeers in the fight
for the affections of ADPi Jean
Villair . . . We saw the dress re
hearsal of “Of Thee I Sing” last
night and it shows, but plenty!
Helen Holden, of the Henhall Hol
dens, has whipped the dance rou
tines into shape, and most of the
numbers would be right at home
on a Broadway stage . . . “Spi
der” Dickson is rated by those
that have seen him as the dance
sensation of any show that he
might grace. And for glamor,
take a good look at Archie Mar
shik’s gal, Marion Rique . . .
Near tragedy was averted last
week by Weekend heads. The
Holland had booked Louis “Satch
mo” Armstrong on the same night
as the Junior Prom. So they en
tered into a conference with the
Holland’s proprietors, and they
decided to cancel the colored
trumpeter’s engagement . . . Two
of the Gammafi’s most popular
gals have left school. So long,
Betty Kincaid and Jane Furrow
. . . What local “smoothstone”
was stood up for a house dance
and turned around and took a
rushee that was even more at
tractive to the same house
dance ? . . . Betty Hobblick's
mother came up and took her
home, leaving Sig Ep A1 Conyne
without a girl or a pin . . . Ome
ga hall's bigun, Fats Reinke is
going steady now, with Sigma
Kappa June Wakefield . . . Merlin
Nelson of the Beta crew, seems
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Mail Bcujj,
To the Editor:
The quaint quatrain of your
J.W.S., wondering why so many
"scholastically excellent shots"
were elected to Phi Beta Kappa
this year, deserves an explana
tory note. It is customary with
many chapters of this fraternity
to elect each year approximately
ten per cent of the seniors who
are expected to receive bachelor's
degrees. The twenty-nine seniors
elected by Alpha of Oregon this
spring, with the six elected last
fall, make almost exactly seven
per cent of the graduating class.
The fact that such a conservative
number looks like a "horde” to
J.W.S. is chiefly significant with
respect to the fewness of those
elected during his previous two
years at Oregon, and in recent
years before that.
Yours very truly,
Jesse H. Bond.
RfuUdt ottcute JlandeA
Madagascar Only Gleam'
On Gloomy War Front
. . . Adolph Ueedi a Vict&iy
By BILL HAIGHT
Meager reports from Madagascar, 1000 mile long island oft*
the coast of Portuguese Mozambique in Africa, indicate Brit
ish Commando troops have landed and have the situation
under control with only sporadic resistance from the troops of
the Nazi puppet government of France.
“Reckless, uncalculated assaults generally lead to disas
ter” and Norway was a bitter
example of an uncalculated as
sault but since then the British
government has been training
troops as efficiently as the Nazi
machine oiled its cogs and the
“calculated risks” have been jus
tified by the careful planning and
preparation that has gone into
the Madagascar operation.
How Vital?
The strategic importance of the
island is protection for Allied
ships to the Middle East and Aus
tralia. Madagascar in the hands
of the Japanese would practically
shut off the shipping of troops
and material by the South Afri
can route. However, equally im
portant is the knowledge that the
Commando troops can hit with a
knockout blow.
Otherwise the Allies are only
suffering setbacks. Burma is a
Japanese successful campaign
and the islands surrounding Aus
tralia are undergoing heavy as
saults from the Japanese navy
and air force.
Will Back
Diplomatic activity centers
around the United States govern
ment warning the cancerous
Vichy that the full force of the
United States will be used to back
up the British occupation of Mad
agascar if Vichy should try to
resist.
This could mean the final break
and war with the abortive Laval
organization but most observers
have the impression Laval will
back up. If he follows the typical
Axis pattern there will be a pub
lic acceptance of the loss of Mad
agascar and then swift and sur
prising reprisals.
Hitler may consider this is his
perfect opportunity to obtain the
French fleet and the pressure
from Germany seems to be in
this direction, according to a neu
tral report on this explosive ques
tion.
Der Fuehrer is badly in need of
a good victory on the battle
front or diplomatic front to bol
ster confidence at home. Bold ac
tion may be expected.
Mental tic that haunts: What
was the name of Paul Revere’s
horse ?
Parade Opinion
If the Allies are victorious, James K. Pollock, University of Michi
gan political science professor, has a realistic plan for a government
to replace Hitler’s that answers the question “what shall we do with
Germany?”
The country should be supervised by an international governing
commission until it is able to erect a new constitutional structure that
promises to be an improvement
on the Weimar system, Professor
Pollock says.
It is a serious mistake to blame
the political maladjustments of
the years between the First and
Second World wars on neglect of
the economic problem in the peace
settlement of 1919, he contends.
It is equally wrong now, he warns,
to think that if the economic prob
lem is solved the political prob
lem will look after itself.
Pointing out that when thenar
is over Germany will not be Mile
to continue at peace unless she is
organized on a. democratic basis,
Professor Pollock blueprints his
proposed plan along democratic
lines.
The next German government,
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FORMER PRESIDENT OF EMORY UNIVERSITY.
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