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Dregon# Emerald Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mendays, holiday! and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. EDUCATION He who knows and knows not that he knows, Is asleep; wake him. He who knows not and knows not that he knows not Is a fool; kick him. He who knows not and knows that he knows not Is simple; teach him. He who knows and knows that he knows Is wise; follow him. —Dean Allen wants to know who is the author of the above lines. /1 2uedio*i Palicy . . . A BOUT half of the “gripes” one hears around an editorial office are about errors in fact or proofreading, and the other half are about editorial policy. The other day we received a copy of the Amherst Stud ent, campus newspaper of the Amherst college in Massachu setts. In that issue the editor gave his readers a straightfor ward account of his editorial policy. Most of it can be applied las well to the Emerald. Said Editor Warren Weaver, Jr.: Wrj~'HE FUNCTIONS of our editorial page are not difficult ‘to define. Their purpose focuses on a value which is primarily critical and secondarily entertaining. By criticism, however, is indicated neither the labored wheeze of the pro fessional cynic nor the feverish rantings of the stubborn an tagonist; criticism involves the honest appraisal of both the good and bad aspects of affairs about us and the straightfor ward expression of that appraisal. * * * W'J'HERE are few individuals anywhere today who are capable of an intelligent discussion of either the nation al or international situation, and we have no claim to mem bership in that august group. With this failing in mind any reference we may make to the problems of the nation of the war crisis will be confined to their relations to the university student in general and to the Amherst college student in par ticular. Here at least we have, if not a complete qualification of knowledge, a sound backing of interest.”—J. L. B. 9t'l a Woman'& Wo^ild CPECULATION runs rife o’er the feminine portion of the campus, gaining' momentum daily. “How long before Ore gon is a girls’ seminary?” Some jokester will quip, “Ah, we’ll really have a woman’s world!” But she’s not being funny, everyone knows it; it's Jtoo true. These speculators must not overlook the larger issue. It is a woman's world, more so every day. The man’s world has moved to the battlefield. The world behind the lines is wom an’s, an indisputably essential one. The two are interdepend ent. Men have been forced to abandon their tools, the work heretofore exclusively theirs. Now they must depend on wom en to keep their factories, their business, producing. * * * ■yjyOMKN dreamed of equality—social, political, and eco nomic—for centuries. College women led the fight, and a measure of this equality was gained in the past century. Now full realization is in sight. The requisite is to produce She goods. The role of the woman welder has received great play in production publicity. In the mechanical fields the feminine half has taken hold, and begun to produce. Administrative work, personnel management, accounting, are among the business fields calling for women’s abilities. Technical fields are wide open. To cite a few instances, tui tion free courses are being given in personnel and labor rela tions at the University of Southern California; the govern ment is sponsoring radio training courses, paying all tuition and laboratory costs; a bill passed by congress authorizes 50 Scholarships in meteorology to be given each year to college graduates, preferably women, to re-build the personnel of the U. S. Weather Bureau. Away from mathematics, one finds the linguistic demand great. Diplomatic services and special investigation offices are crying for women who know a foreign language. After the war, this field will be even broader. Further information regarding occupations is available in Dean Kaarl \Y. On thank's office. *}c sjc % The scope of the phrase “a woman's world" is illimitable. College graduates have always been looked to as the lead ers. Educated women led the struggle for equality; today's college women cannot afford to limit their thinking to the ‘‘seminary” aspect and student outlook. There is essential jyork to be done. They must lead.—J. ^Y. A&Jlih By JOHN J. MATHEWS Next item of fare on the cam pus music menu will be the not sufficiently - ballyhooed Thanks for - giving jig tomorrow eve. Though the band personnel has not been definitely set, three of the most likely lads for the line up are Herb Widmer, strictly top flight tenor man from the Geo. Carey gang; Eddie Johnson, from his own ultra-fine outfit, and the number one trumpet man on the campus, A1 Kasmeyer. If the rest of the rhythm, reeds, and brass give even decent support to these lads, the musical end of the affair will be a success. * * a: The 50 couples who dug the Sig Ep house potty at the Eu gene last weekend were the luck iest souls on the campus. Gene Leo, the great stone face, sat expressionless behind the 1917 Maytag and played some of the most electrifying choruses we have heard in many a moon. The guy is amazing. He sits there staring glassily at the third knot hole in the 17th plank from the east end of the floor while his fingers strike stuff |that will make your hair curl. Yeah, I know I’ve said he was good be fore, but he’s worth all the plug ging he’ll ever get out of a small time col’m like this one. Perhaps the least appreciated (Please turn to page six) THERE ARE 516 COLLEGE STADIUMS' INI THE COUNTRY WITH A TOTAL SEATING CAPACITY OF 5J68.ZOO OR . AN AVERAGE OF 10,000 PER SCHOOL/ Way back when Wisconsin rrst played MINNESOTA IN FOOTBALL, THE WISCONSIN TEAM TROTTED OUT ON THE FIELD WEARING TOP HATS. THE STUNT SO INFURIATED THE GOPHERS THAT THEY DRUBBED THE BADGERS ROBERT H. BISHOP WAS THE FIRST OF SEVEN CONSECUTIVE Y MINISTER- PRESIDENT-/ AT MIAMI UN IV. Join «VJAm-NAZI SINKW3 FUND ^uy WAR STAMPS! 1 -boom fynxmi I m m m M By BILL LINDLEY One of the good ideas which Hollywood ..producers have had and have used to advantage for several -years is that if you take a New York stage play, change the dialogue a little, add a few different sets, and then film it, you will have a smash hit. ^ Take “My Sister Eileen” as a slap-happy example.^ in fact it seems that practically anyone in New York will take Eileen, for that’ sthe whole story. lllllil!I!ll!llilllll!II!!!llll!l!ll!!!l!ll!l!llllini!!l^ !!lllllll!l!inill!llllllllllllllllllll!lllll!ll|[||[l!ll!1!ll!!l]||llll|[[lltllllltl!!l!l!!ll!llllII!ll!ll1l!ll!!]|]!l!!!l!!IIIIil|[[!ll[l!ll![!ll[l!tl!!lllllll[!]!!l|[!!ll[!ll!l!ll[l!!ll!H!![II!IIl![!ll!l!llll!!I[l!!l!![II!ll^ Siberia’s Future-- j By NICK RIASANOVSKY Siberia is certainly a land of the future. Far from being as imagined by many a foreigner, a snowy waste, this enor mous country is rich in almost every conceivable raw ma terial. Many large rivers run across Siberia. Biggest forests in the world stand there. The climate is cold, and—in the north—very cold, but still the country is quite inhabitable. Under Siberian soil there is gold and silver, coal and iron, oil and radium, to name just some of the mineral resources. Siberia is a veritable paradise for the fur rier, the hunter, and the fisher man. Siberia belongs all the more to the future because it has never been very important in the past. No great civilization has ever existed there. From times im memorial Siberia was peopled by nomadic tribes—shepherds and hunters. Even now its population is extremely scarce—twelve and a half millions for 4,831,882 square miles. Kossack Leads Russian penetration into Si beria, led by the famous Kossack Ermak, began in the sixteenth century. The kossacks, the out laws, the furriers were the first to move eastward. These pioneers often covered distances un equalled even in the American westward expansion. Only very gradually the churches, schools, universities, hospitals, theaters, museums, libraries, appeared in Siberia. The trans-Siberia rail road was completed in 1898. The special conditions of life in Siberia produced the particu lar Siberian type, which for ob vious reasons bears a consider able resemblance to the Ameri can frontiersman. A Siberian is characterized by self-reliance, in dependence, persistence, rugged ness, and a democratic attitude toward his fellow-men. Serfdom never took roots in Siberia. Only Beginning The development of Siberia is even now in its early stage. True, Soviet government was quick to realize the vast significance of this great country. After the first two Five-Year plans made Russia an industrial country, the aim of the Third Five-Year plan was to shift the industrial center eastward by a tremendous devel opment of Siberia. A considerable amount of work had been accomplished before the Germans struck. Perhaps, Ger mans attacked Russia in 1941 because they saw that when the third Five-Year plan would be completed Russia will be practi cally unassailable. Japan “Interested" Japanese are, of course, also interested in Siberia. Their best army is standing for years on the Siberian border. As a matter of fact, many authorities are sur (Please turn to paae si.v) Ruth Sherwood. (Rosalind Rus sell) and her sister Eileen (Janet Blair) come to New York from Columbus, Ohio, all ready to crash the city in a day or two with their talents, but it seems that they are unnoticed by any one of importance. Ruth falls for a magazine editor (Brian Aherne), leaving sister to han dle the fifty-odd wolves who seem attracted- to their small room in a Greenwich Village tenement. *? Line for Each Sometimes they come one at a time; sometimes they come in droves, but sister' Eileen has a line for each and every one.^of them, and the way in whict® , le plays the whole field at once is nothing short of amazing. The story seems to be built around the characters of the neighborhood. There is the too friendly air raid warden, and the football player who runs around in shorts all day while his wife is at work, and the six Portu guese marine cadets who drop in to do the conga. And on top of all this, construction workers are blasting for a subway beneath their floor. Rates Good Rating: Completely slapstick— but good. Rosalind Russell puts over her risque dialogue with that certain punch which she (Please turn to'Page Six) tiiniiimimiimnimmmiii It's Our War By NORMA TREVORROW ADPi's Marty Beard, Mary El len Smith, and B. A. Stevens and AOPi’s Alice Chatman and Gladys Stevenson went beet-pull ing Saturday a la Levi's under water-proofed raincoats and mud. Disillusionment came when beets turned into “mangle,” used to feed cows, but was closely fol lowed by the sublime revelation of 60 cents an hour. A fine suggestion from Salvage Co-chairmen Bill Lilly and Marge Curtis: Give up having gravy for dinner for just two nights. Those fats and oils are really not good for anything but a spare tire anyway. And justi think of that lovely complexion in the days following. This little act would really double the amount of fats and scraps collected for salvage. Remember that the proceeds eventually come right back to you in another forpi of gravy af ter the war. Two More Enlist Sig Eps Chuck Herman and Bob Wells enlisted Friday, were gone Saturday—just like that. Incidentally, it may be intei^) ing to some that, stated closed are military police corps, ordnance department, quartermaster corps, (Please turn to page three)