Oregon W Emerald
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OENIOR class members have a collective date Thursday
(7:30 p.m., 105 Commerce) to decide the destiny of fresh
man class finance for years to come.
Background: The stigma of class card with voting privi
lege left the University of Oregon last year, long after it had
left other schools up and down the Coast and across the na
gion. The stigma of class card, either with or without voting
privilege, may be wiped out entirely if seniors decide to leave
a gift revolving fund for finance of freshman classes of the
future.
The Plan: Seniors would leave a gift of $600. Two hun
dred dollars of this would go to the present freshman class
of ’46. Two hundred dollars more would go to the class of
’47 next year. Two hundred dollars more would go to the
fclass of '48 two years from now. Each class would use its
$200 “loan” without interest for three years. It would build a
surplus cash balance of its own through class dances and
projects from the $200 capital. At end of three years, the $200
goes back to a new incoming freshman group. Once start
ed, the plan is self-perpetuating throughout the years to come.
* *
rT'HE Advantages: Number one, Nuisance sale of class
cards would be eliminated. Students once past the fresh
man year ever felt they were giving something for nothing
when they bought class cards. Number two, with our soldiers
fighting for freedom of the individual around the globe, it
would eliminate need for class card as poll tax in class elec
tions to insure sales. Each class would have a nest egg of
$200 to start college.
The senior class, with its $900 treasury fund is in unusual
position- of security, is in point of vantage to start the revolv
ing fund of finance. The $600 gift still would leave $300 to
finance a Senior Ball and another additional gift to the Uni
versity departing members might want to leave.
Value of the $600 gift would be felt immediately. Heavy
use, bad weather, and time would not destroy its future
utility.
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'Y’OU can count on the fingers of one hand the important
political leaders who haven’t pleaded with the public to
forget personal gain in order to contribute more fully to the
war effort. Most of the Washington brass-hats have hit this
cry more than once.
Meantime, while sounding off on the rest of the nation,
congress has been playing the smelliest, most obvious, and
clearest-cut game of politics for pure personal gain that we
have witnessed in a long time. While telling the public to
give up all else for the sake of the war effort, the gentlemen
of the senate and house have consistently refused to face the
issue of the 18-year-old draft. It has been nothing but cater
ing to the mammas and papas of the lads who would be af
fected, and utterly no consideration has been given the army's
cry that it needs these men.
The army’s need was ignored because a decision might
prove unpopular at the polls.
News comes now from Washington that congress’ effort
to tread on no political toes has been a resounding failure. De
nied the right to induct 18-year-olds, the army plans to take
an equal number of married men without children within the
next two months.
Let us hope, however doubtfully, that this will teach the
politicos the lesson they have been preaching to the rest of
us.—J. J. M.
Thus, congress defeated its own purpose by not only keep
ing the same opposition, but’adding persons (voters) who oth
erwise would not be affected. Instead of sons, congress forced
the army to take brothers—brothers who could join the vot
ing opposition—something the sons could not have done.
Down
Front
By BILL LINDLEY
Out of the seemingly bound
less supply of war pictures for
which theater managers seem to
find a place on every bill, there
ocasionally comes a film which
utilizes all the thrills which mod
ern warfare provides.
“Flying Tigers” provides thrills
every minute, and yet manages
to get across an important story
of fighting Americans on for
eign soil.
It’s all there; all the old stuff
rehashed in every air picture pro
duced. The pilot who is grounded,
the carefree ace who causes
death to his buddies, the tough
commander with the soft heart.
They’ve all been in other pictures,
but in “Flying Tigers” they
seem alive for the first time.
Story: Rugged John Wayne is
skipper in command of a squad
ron of Flying Tigers whose bat
tles are here pictured on the
screen. There is a weak plot in
volving Anna Lee, John Carroll,
and Wayne, but it is lost in the
magnificent battle scenes. The
P-40’s are shown in action which
is at times breath taking. They
zoom through the clouds like
streamlined kites after the wily
Japs, and they hit them again
and again.
How studios got planes to film
this action is a baffling ques
tion. Unlike most air pictures, the
action is not done with minia
tures, but with real planes. The
Japs even look real. They are sol
emn, stern, stubby men who car
ry through their orders to the
best of their ability. The Japs in
“Flying Tigers” are not all killed
off by one American with a six
shooter. They are real enemies,
and not dummies who fall at a
director's command.
The Japs are real: the Ameri
cans are real, and their fight is
extremely realistic.
Rating: One' of the few war
pictures worth seeing. Little Re
public’s “Flying Tigers” far sur
passes Big Paramount’s “Wake
Island.”
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By CHAS. POLITZ
The fire marshal has just made
hif yearly rounds hunting for old
copies of Harper's Bazaar in so
rority attics, and in fraternity
attics—just hunting (he doesn't
like Varga girls).
He came at the most unexpect
ed times, like Gen. Eisenhower,
and thus caused mayhem, map
hap, and may - we - never - for
get him.
B. A. Stevens describes his re
ception at the ADPis thusly:
“I screamed.”
‘‘He screamed!”
None of the houses were fire
traps, he said, but he made the
Pi Phis throw out their four pairs
of "We Gripe for Good grappling
hooks they have been saving.
Bill Macy was a boy scout
oncet, believe it or not. Toured
the east coast in khaki shorts, as
did brother Glen.
The English department has at
last gotten wise and charged out
the English translation of Chau
cer fr "an indefinite period of
time”
Mr. MeCloskey, assistant pro
fessor of English, is still wonder
Strange to say how a good din
ner and feasting reconciles every
body.
-—Samuel Pepys.
ing if that mouse that grabbed
the spotlight from “Richard II”
Wednesday was taking the course
for credit or just auditing.
We love the girl who whines
an air raid siren, “Hiiyaahhh” at
you while splattering bubble gun:
ail over your fice at the sarnt
time— especially \ spearmint.
Sad stocy of [love, plus nimv
beis, equalvmur|er.
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