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Oregon W Emerald RAY SCHRICK, Editor; BETTY BIGGS SCHRICK, Business Mgr. G. Duncan Wimpress, Managing Editor Jack L. Billings, News Editor John Mathews, Associate Editor UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Advertising Managers: John Jensen, Cecil Sharp, Shirley Davis, Russ Smelser. Dwayne Heathman Connie Fullmer, Circulation Manager. .Lois Liaus, Liassinea ^overusing man ager. Elizabeth Edmunds, National Advertis ing Manager. Member Associated Golle6iate Press ALL-AMERICAN 1942 UPPER NEWS STAFF Lee Flatberg, Sports Editor Marge Major, Women’s Editor Mildred Wilson, Feature Editor Janet Wagstaff, Assistant Editor Marjorie Young. Assistant News Editor Represented for national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., college publishers’ representative, 420 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago Boston —Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland—Seattle. Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holiday* and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. _____ Mot ai toluol. . . ^OHOULD aulcl acquaintance be forgot” is not the war time tune of New Year’s eve 1942-43. So far, it is the question mark. Ten-thirty permission for University coeds on that night, however, is not a closed issue. This closing hour will be kept only if no further action is taken by the student affairs committee. These hours went in to automatic effect when school was scheduled for Friday, January 1st. i\i ;J? * ^JYMIS without question is an unusual year. Seldom if ever before have students found themselves “on campus” through New Year’s. This lends emphasis to argument that further action should be taken. If the question were one of aid vs. hindrance to the war effort, the answer would be simple. The Emerald has backed fully plans to stay on the campus Thanksgiving — because [there was a reason: Early fall term dismissal to clear trans portation lines for servicemen going home on furlough. Like wise students cannot object strenuously to school on New [Year’s day. Our year is shorter than that of most universi ties already. Some schools have hit a steady six-day week. We start later, get out earlier. Where students can help the war effort, they want to help—and they will help. * * * J^TEW YEAR’S eve is another question. Faculty, civilians, and servicemen, where they can, will observe that tradi tional night of “Auld Lang Syne.” They will look back on a hard year. They will look ahead to an even tougher one. Students too should have this opportunity to ring out a steady year of war, to ring in a “new” that will mean service in forces and action for many. The situation is unusual. * * * ^/^TTENTION for action rests with the student affairs com mittee. It rests also on the ASUO Executive Council. The student affairs committee is open to student views. It awaits petition and discussion of student opinion from their leaders. Executive council members closest to campus opin ion, aware of problems, face opportunity to present the ques tion to the deciding committee. “Auld acquaintance,” now in home forces or overseas, should not be forgot this war Newr Year’s eve. Exception to the 10:30 rule would be help more than hindrance to the war program. The situation is unusual and requires unusual treatment. • • • Bn&w-&i*Uf Room ^HE browsing room in the library is closed in the evenings. To many people this comes as quite a blow...Now there is no place to go when you want to talk to your friends—no there is no comfortable place at the Libe for you to study— no place to sneak in and take a nap when you are weary. There is also a group of people who miss the browsing room because that is where they went to do their recreational reading. That is where they relaxed and enjoyed the latest novels and other miscellaneous literature. The first group will solve their own problems by going where they should have gone in the first place. To the second group we suggest the following: JF YOUR house has not already done so, re-establish your house library. There are several hundred books in the li brary, not just classics either, that are earmarked ‘‘House Collection.” These books may be taken out by the individual houses, and kept at the houses for the use of the members. In this way those people who would like to curl up with a good book in the browsing room may do so in their own home. We hear much talk concerning the reviving of traditions. The traditions of the house library is one that is well worthy of revival.—J. W. S. Between The Lines By BOY NELSON IT IS NEW Year's eve. Well, it ain’t really New Year’s eve, but we’ll play like it is. We’re just fooling, see ? A boomer has a date. For con venience, let’s label him with some typical name. Halliburton, for instance. Halliburton has a date with a girl. Halliburton and his girl will be making whoopie. The scene opens with a gent and his gal making whoopie. The gent: Stir harder, dear. The dear: (handing him the spoon): Here—you stir for a while. WE LEAVE THE duo at this point, and turn instead to an earlier part of our story. The be ginning, you say. Halliburton is getting ready for his date. His house-brother is helping him with his tie. His housebrother pulls the knot too tight, and Halliburton gasps and collapses. A substitution is made. Halliburton’s housebrother goes in for Halliburton. The house brother rings the sorority bell. He is ushered in. Halliburton’s housebr other: Hello. Halliburton’s girl: Hello. Housebrother: Halliburton choked. I’m taking his place. Girl: I see. Now the two are ready to cel ebrate. They leave for the city center. Housebrother: By the right flank, harch! (Halliburton’s housebrother was wearing a pair of brown sox.) The gal: Detail, halt! One, two! What does your watch say ? The gent: It says tick, tock. The gal: Hey, that was in an Emerald column. He: A What ? She: A column. He: Oh, so that’s what it is. LATER (a few minutes, or so). She: What time is it? He: Ten o’clock. Two more hours, and we’ll watch the old world—• She: No soap. Gotta be back at (Please tarn to pace six) | | By BILL LINDLEY '* Occasionally there comes to the screen a picture which has only average photography, a poor sound track, and very bad acting, but which surpasses many more expensive pro ductions because the story it has to tell is so powerful it makes all other factors of production unimportant by com parison. Such a film is “Moscow Fights Back." The photography is only average because at the front a cameraman must duck enemy bullets in addition to filming the fighting. The acting is bad be cause the actors didn’t even know they were making a motion picture; they only knew that they were fighting for their coun try. If they did that job well, nothing else mattered. Here was an opportunity for the Russians to make a great propaganda film, but they wisely chose to show the truth whether it was favorable or not. There are Russian dead and German dead in this picture, but they don’t look like the clean, smiling dead of Hollywood. They are covered with snow and blood; many of them are beyond recog nition, so maimed are their bod ies. The children lie in large mounds in the snow waiting for interment to the earth. The dead are not pleasant to see, but they are there, and can not be ignored. Many of the liv ing are not pleasant to see, but are they to be ignored so the painful truth is hidden? The Russian, unlike the boast ful German, does not pretend that war is nothing but thrilling parades and continuous victor ies. Cameramen sometimes swing in an arc to film the death of a man less than ten feet away. Four cameramen were killed while filming this picture. Russian soldiers are wel comed by people in every town. Their expressions of utter joy which they receive from their countrymen are too genuine to have been acted, and there can be no doubt that the anguish of mothers who find their sons among the heaps of dead is piti fully real. But the Russians have their successes. Their small speedy (Please turn to page seven) tiiimtiiiiiMuiiimiimiiiiiiiiimiimiiiiiiiMiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, Mildted It/iUa+t SjzieA, . . . iiiimniimtiiimiMiimuiniiiiiiiitiimiit Meet the Oregon alum who played host to “The Man Who Came to Dinner.’’ Clyde Fillmore, ’98, was the bewildered1 prosaic husband in the stage version of that play— extending the courtesies of his home to the original MAN him self — Alexander Woolcott. To make the drama life-like, Fill more was supported in the do mestic stage couplet by his real life wife, Actress Lea Penman. In a letter written to the Old Oregon alumni magazine. Fill more reveals an interesting ex perience in connection with their Washington, D. C., performances of the Broadway play. On the second night of the show Presi dent and Mrs. Roosevelt were present and soon after turned the tables on the cast and invited them to dinner. They came. Fill more reports a hilarious evening with the guests getting the orig inal report of the president's now-famous story of his grand sons’ diapers. Since his graduation from Ore gon, long enough ago to place him in the category of 19th cen tury alums. Fillmore has prac practically run the gamut of the atrical experiences. Appearing ex clusively in legitimate stage pro ductions for many years, Fillmore has recently added to his versa tility by several motion picture appearances. Although most outstanding in his role as the cynical and very wise Chinaman in “Shanghai Gesture” he may also be recalled as the crooked mayor in “The Remarkable Andrew.” Putting it in the exciting phraseology of the actor, Fill more commented in a letter, “In July at 2d hours notice I had to cancel committments for Sara toga and for the current New York season to “plane in,” as Hollywood puts it, for the pic tures “New York Story” and more recently “Shanghai Ges ture” and “The Remarkable An drew.” From four years as a Greek major at Oregon—to Broadway’s great white way is seemingly a long jump—but Fillmore has made it successfully and without losing contact with his campus associates. He tells of “John Mac Gregor, ’23. energetic master-of ceremonies of the New York chapter of Oregon alums routing me out of limbo to attend Ore gon dinners.” During the course of one of these meetings he was (Please turn to Page Six) Free For All * * * *!* * ■t* • • 9 To the Editor: | \ Congratulations on your OSC editorial. But, while the Emerald is on the subject of giving answers to unwarranted attacks upon the student body of the University, why isn't some answer given to the various “committees” who have taken it upon themselves this year to make an attempted curtailment of vso many time honored Oregon rights and tradi tions ? The students have long been aware of the -University’s admin istration’s wish to curtaii many activities—and that the war has afforded an excellent excuse for them to "crack-down.” Were this the army, or some other branch of military service, the restrictive measures mi| ) be appropriate—but such actions on the part of a university, an in stitution that throughout history has had the reputation of broad minded liberalism, this new policy seems exactly opposite to the very aims of higher education. I am sure that the entire stu dent body Is in agreement that everything must be subjugated to the needs of the war effort. Ev erything necessary. But, I do not believe that a single student wishes for a giving up of the very freedom of thought and ac tion that we ^Americans are fight ing for today “If giving up some thing is necessary, we are glad to help by giKing. it up. But we do not want another European dictatorship here on the -eampus, that rules out our rights to agree with the whims of a few—unf the guise of being “for the good of the students and the war ef fort.” Let’s leave our American in itiative and free thought and ac tion intact—as our federal gov ernment has asked—cognizant of the necessary needs of the war effort. That’s what our men are fight ing and dying for today—that’s what we’ll be fighting for our selves before long. Mark Howard. For forty-three consecutive years Sigma Delta Chi at the University of,Indiana has spon sojrgd a dance called the Blanket Hop. The proceeds of this dance are used to purchase “I” blankets for the graduating senior ath letes. This year the old custom could not be^ continued, so the money was placed in a special fund for the duration. After the war the graduates will receive their blankets, —The Indiana Daily Student *; * * - International House 4] Thirty-five students represent ing ten different countries have formed a living organization at the University of Washington. . .(Please turn to page six)