Oregon tf Emerald
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Quotable Quotes
“In a fairly short space of time you can, if
need be, turn a chemist into a fighting man;
but you cannot turn a fighting man into a chem
ist." — Vice Chancellor Sir Hector James
Wright Hetherington of the University of Glas
gow sums up the case for deferment of tech
nicians.—(ACP)
QjJj fol Beilin. . .
^^PRIL 7 marks the end of an era.
One hundred and sixty University men will come out of
their immature cocoon of cords, sport coats, and sweaters.
They will don the army khaki.
It is true that the University has already furnished many
times that number to the colors. Why then an end of an era?
Because it is the beginning of an era . . . the University will
be all-out in the big way, the man-power way, for winning
this war.
These 160 are first of the rapid evacuation of men going
this spring term. The air corps, the navy, the marines have
speeded up their program and are ready to take the men now
to finish the job that much sooner.
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rJT'0 RING out the old era, one thinks of a celebration . . .
a sincere flag-waving farewell with the spirit of a pre-Ore
gon State rally for those 160, the first students to depart en
masse from the University.
April 6, 1917, marked the end of an era too. Twenty-six
years ago April 6th University of Oregon men went to war
against Germany the first time.
On April 6, 1943 we can say good bye and good luck to
Oregon’s KRC men by a mass send-off. The day, April 6, would
be a symbol of the 1918 victory to those who are marching off
a day later to do the job again . . . and better.
—B. B. S.
JtaucjJtl at the
JT ] IAS l)ccn said that morale is a lot of little things and the
greatest of these is—a sense of humor.
The famous “underground movements” in the interior of
German-occupied countries are hanking on their indomitable
sense of humor in order to carry on their activities and keep
up the general morale of their people. Stories burlesqueing the
Nazis are circulated from person to person.
Some of these stories have come out of Europe via the
underground, and the office of war information at Washing
ton has circulated them in this country.
Norwegian patriots in a Trondheim movie palace, for in
stance, were astonished to see a propaganda film showing the
German forces giving food to the Norwegian civil popula
tion. For a few minutes they were too amazed to speak. Then
one of them stood up and cried, “Stop! You’re running the
film backwards!"
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THE underground says. True or untrue, these stories irk
the harried Hitlerites.
Another example: After the attempted bombing of Hitler
in the Munich Brauhaus became known, the following notices
appeared in the windows of several butcher shops in Prague
the next morning:
“There will unfortunately be no lard or pork today as the
swine wasn’t killed yesterday.”
Better luck next time! — J. L. B.
B&ti&e tlte Point. . .
What with butter rationed to one quarter pound per per
son per week we really won't be able to tell which side our
bread is buttered on.
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It used to be people would invite soldiers to their homes
for a good dinner. Now it's getting so soldiers will have to
invite civilians to army camps for a good look at a square meal.
INuf Sedl
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By CHAS. POLITZ
This is the second in a short
lived series of (if the California
Chamber of Commerce has its
way) articles on when-we-could
still - get - butter trip to San
Francisco, that fabled city of
fish smells, and all those other
lovely things that our editor
wouldn’t let us print in our last
article.
We had just been awakened by
our two hands which were beat
ing “first call to breakfast’’ on
the diner porter’s head. Funny,
we were hungry. He was asleep.
Zip! . . . We were asleep—ar
tificially. Dangerous to awake
porters when they’re dreaming
of those $1000 tips that never
snuggle under the empty pie
plate ... we found out.
Surprise Arrival
We arrived in Oakland at 2:10.
We were due in Oakland at 2:10.
We fainted.
Oakland is that town that was
built around Trader Vic’s
We then rowed across the bay,
with the help of the ferry. Our
aunt met us at the station, helped
us pick out the best golf bag in
the baggage room. We brought
a tennis racket.
She had our day all planned
out for us, so we just jiggled the
chains in enthusiastic approval.
Sight Seeing
She siphoned a gallon of gas,
and we were off. We went to one
of her middle-aged friend’s houses
(she too is middle-aged with past
tense on the “middle”). We en
joyed ourselves immensely lis
tening to “ how I got this nasty
run in a perfectly new pair of
$1.87 nylons, see” . . . we didn't
look.
Then they got on the meat
shortage, and “Isn’t Johnny a lit
tle young to be cut up in steaks ?
Let him hang a while.”
Long Wait
“Soon” (Emily Post-ian for
a *lb$&** long time) they no
ticed that we didn’t rip our ra
tion card in shreds laughing at
their patter, and that our finger
nails littered the living room
(Please turn to page three)
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Between the Lines
By ROY PAUL NELSON
Earle Russell, currently announcing over KORE, got the
surprise of his life at registration. I think it’s only fair that I
should tell you about it after having brought up the matter.
When he went to get his registration papers he was bom
barded with this question:
"What do you want registra
tion papers for?”
The yell king thought hard and
at length he said, brightly: I
want to register.”
"But you have graduated.”
It seems that Russell had tak
en more hours than he needed
during his earlier terms at the
University or something, and had
forgotten about it. Said the noise
man when he had hear the news:
“Make mine vanilla!”
On the House
Harley Davis has come up with
a novel way of cutting down on
board and room while on the
campus. Here’s what he propos
es:
The SAEs and the Phi Delts
are eating together now, you
know. At meal time you can wan
der over to the Phi Delt house
Where the meals are being served,
and simply sit down and eat. If
a Phi Delt asks you who you are
—tell him you’re an SAE, and if
an SAE asks your identity—you
are a Phi Delt.
You must be satisfied, or your
money back.
Censored
The illustrious Chas. Politz,
who bats out the Nuf Sed column
apparently felt that there wasn’t
Nuf Sed in his last writing as
was featured in Friday’s Emer
ald. It seems that the editor
rubbed his blue pencil through
some of the stuff Politz felt
would make good reading.
Undaunted, the columnist has
erected several posters on the
campus with his column typed
out as he would have had it.
In Friday’s Emerald, incident
ally, it was told that there would
be 158 women roaming the cam
pus without a man, according to
spring term enrollment. Well. In
fact I might even go so far as to
say well, well.
My office is in the journalism
building.
( scene at Raftdo**! !
By BERNIECE DAVIDSON
“E. R. C. Spree”
The University of California
student body will climax two
days of entertaining the ERO
with the Junior informal dance.
The queen of the dance will
choose a king from four junior
contestants to share her reign.
An all-class sing and rally will
also be held in honor of the ERC.
-—The Daily Californian.
Not Licked
The members of International
house at the University of Cali
fornia found one way to combat
the help shortage. Unable to find
steady employees, Sunday night
supper is served from paper
plates with wooden utensils.
The Daily Californian
No Dream
Although 15 men to every girl
might sound like a coed’s para
dise, the cadettes studying en
gineering at Rensselaer polytech
nic institute in Troy found this
wasn't the case.
One former Syracuse univer
sity coed believes the 93 cadettes
who invaded the engineering
school will be ignored until they
can prove to the men that they
can tell the difference between a
slide rule and a T-square. In the
meantime the girls hear remarks
like this when a plane flies over:
-“Girls, do you know what that
is ? That’s an airplane.”
Syracuse Daily Orange
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Women Commandos
Women physical education stu
dents at the University of Colo
rado, anxious to prove that they
can keep up with the men in
physical ability, have begun a
commando training of their own.
This includes everything from
swinging from rope to rope Tar
zan style, to vaulting a five-foot
fence and walking the length of a
two-inch wide plank.
The Silver and Gold
Victory Gardens
Indiana university employees
and faculty members needn’t
worry about food rationing this
summer, that is, if they are fast
enough to stake a claim on the
land that the University has made
available to them for victory gar
dens.
There will be no charge for the
land and it will be plowed and
harrowed by the University.
—The Indiana Daily Student
Officers Appointed
The Student council at Louis
iana State university, in order to
cope with the shortage of cam
pus politicians in class offices,
Free
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(The March issue of Reader’s
Digest carried an article on prof
it. It was a man’s written ex
planation to his young grandson
of the profit system. A1 Larsen
discussed the article in his col
umn Friday, and today’s letter
is in response to that column.—
Ed.)
To the Editor:
I was glad to see that Mr.
Larsen and others were not tak
en in by Grandpa’s short course
in economics which was recent
ly presented in the Reader’s Di
gest. With due respect for that
old, gray beard I too, would like
to enroll myself in the Not That
Gullible club. As I see it Grand
pa’s entire system depends or( > o
truth of a single proposition.
“The man who invented and in
stalled the water system is the
man who gets the profit.” In a
few cases this may- be true but
it certainly is not always true.
“Well,” Grandpa might say,
“The man who makes the profit
does administer the enterprise.”
Yes, Grandpa, he does, but the
water system may be adminis
tered in two ways: 1. To make
the most profit. 2. To the best
interests of the public. If you
were a business man which would
you choose? That the two pur
poses do not always coincide is
obvious; that they sometimes
directly contradict each other is
attested by disastrous - examples.
Wasn't there a railroad once that
was in good shape when some
“administrators” took it dftr,
sold its stock high, wrecked the
road, bought back the stock low,
patched up the road, sold the
stock high, and’ so on for six very
profitable “wreckins"? I don’t
advocate the overthrow or aban
donment of the profit system;
we’ve had it a long time and like
the railroad “administrators” I’m
not hungry; but I do hate to be
fed such a stinking argument in
such a sanctimonious guise. I am
not worried about preserving cap
italism, nor would I mourn its
loss. I do not think it is the sine
qua non of human existence or
of modern industry as another
Reader’s Digest article. Your
Stake in Capitalism would
have us believe. Perhaps out'
system is superior and we
are more efficient than the
sians, but, for God’s sake,
Russians don’t get everything on
lend-lease. By no means do I
think that preserving the profit
system is as important as win
ning the war, but as long as the
system doesn’t impede the war
effort I have no objection to it.
Let the government build its
ships and give Kaiser his profit
on them as some kind of a re
ligious offering if it works out
better that way; but, for God's
sake let’s not make Kaiser a
kind of overseer of public opin
ion who warns us in full page ad
vertisements what not to think.
Sincerely, A
Charles CunninghaiW
scided to appoint 20 students to
1 the vacancies. Out of 57 of
:es, no candidates filed for 22
them. —The Reveille