Oregon if Emerald
JACK L. BILLINGS,
Editor
BETTY BIGGS SCHRICK,
Business Manager
Marjorie Young, Managing Editor Bill Lindley, News Editor
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i'T'HE colleges must and will do their part to win
-*• the war, but they also have a part in the larger
strategy of war and peace which they alone can play.
They must conserve knowledge, teach the truth in
more than contemporary perspective, promote the
development of the individuals who comprise society
and will shape its decisions.”—President Paul Swain
Havens of Wilson college calls upon American col
leges and universities to maintain their faith in lib
eral education.
• • •
EORGE Turnbull, Emerald adviser, came into the office
the other day. He said, “You know, this EEC rally that’s
being planned reminds me of a line from a George M. Cohan
play. It goes, ‘Always leave them laughing when you say
goodbye.’ Seems to me that ought to be a kind of a slogan
for Tuesday.”
Cohan had the right idea. You would probably never run
across a more patriotic man than he, but he wasn’t a dealer
in tears.
Today needn't be a sad day. Just say goodbye and let it
go at that. Be serious at the assembly this afternoon, but
laugh at the rally tonight. Stick with the boys as long as possi
ble, but don’t cry on their shoulders.
It’s easy to smile. It’s cheap to laugh. Try it. It pays
—J. L. B.
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TT’S a thrilling sight to sec your own troops—the boy next
door and the son of the man who lives clown the street.—
marching across the African plateaus, chasing the German Af
rika Korps back to the security of the hills. 1 his fact seems to
constitute the policy of the Office of War Information.
Last week a motion picture filmed in Africa was shown at
local theatres. It was evident from the film that the camera
men were in the thick of the fight, yet no dead American sol
diers were shown. Germans were captured or killed, several
British Tommies were killed, but not the Americans.
If our troops were on the fighting lines, and there is no
doubt but that they were, is it dangerous to show the civilians
back home that Americans are dying? Thousands of the enemy
are killed, and a few British are, but what about our boys?
].‘R11 APS it would be a good thing to sliov pictures of some
dead Yanks. Show them lying in the sand with one side of
their head blown off, Mr. Davis. Let your OW I show us sol
diers dving, and don't wipe away the blood which pours from
their mouths. For if Americans continue to think of dead men
as only theoretical losses, it will be several years before a loss
may be felt in their immediate family. Until that time, they
•will continue to think of a battlefield as a field of nasty, nasty
mud, with those nasty, nasty Nazis making our boys go out
into the rain to fight them.
Don’t show us a shellhole, a burning ammunition truck, and
a wrecked Focke-Wulfe and tell us it's a battlefield. Ameri
cans have a knack for feeling smug and secure, Mr. Davis, and
it doesn't take much from your office to improve our ability
to do so.
Show us death and disaster, and perhaps we'll be ready for
it when it comes. Show us a shell hole and a sailor eating
beans, and tell us it's a battlefront, and we are liable to sit at
borne and change flags if the conqueror reaches our shores.
In wartime, individual feetings cannot be spared and what
ever is thought to be the best arrangement must be made
without regard to persons, and must be made quickly. — \\ in
ston Churchill.
B. L
By LYNN JOHNSON
Stiffening resistance to the
American advance in Tunisia
featured the news from North
Africa over the weekend, and no
important gains were reported.
Axis aircraft struck in waves at
General Patton's forces, but
failed to present some gains by
the Americans east of El Guettar.
In the north the British first
army opened an attack on Gen
eral von Arnim’s lines, but no
important gains were reported.
On the continent American fly
ing fortresses struck in their first
raid over the Paris district, and
laid waste to the Renault factory
on the - outskirts of the former
French capital. This raid, the
heaviest carried out over France
by Americans, brought the first
direct condemnation of America
from Marshal Petain. For the
first time Petain named the
United States in what he called
“a new act of aggression.”
The Russians, facing intensi
fied Nazi counter-attacks, report
ed with confidence Saturday that
they felt capable of meeting any
threat the Germans might pre
sent in a new offensve. The Red
drive down the Kuban river to
ward the Black sea continues to
gain slowly. Action in the north
has been definitely slowed by the
mud of spring thws.
For the first time since the be
ginning of the winter offensive
Soviet officials have released a
map of the entire eastern front
indicating advances which in a
number of cases exceeded those
announced previously. German
casualties during the winter cam
paign were set by the Soviets at
850,000 men and large quantities
of store and material.
The growing intensity of the
bombing raids on Jap installation
in the Aleutian highlights the
weekend news from the Pacific
battle scene with U.S. airmen go
ing into their 38th day of con
tinuous raids ever Kiska. The lat
est aerial sweep over the main
Jap base was the heaviest made
so far, and was carried out while
other planes were pounding the
enemy camp on barren Attu far
ther west.
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By CHAS. POLITZ
“The Outlaw” will probably never reach Eugene. Not much
fear of that.
But if it should manage to evade the cordon of “tut, tut, but
tut” members of the Righteous Further-ment of Malicious
Slander League, every Daughter of the American Revolution,
every Rotarian. Kiwanian, and member of the Motherhood
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By LEONE LaDUKE
After the Sigma Delta Chi
journalism picnic Saturday, the
“shack” can settle down to a nor
mal spring term. George Otten,
Fiji planted his brass on Anita
Fernandez, vivacious Gamma
Phi. . . . Also spending a lot of
time at the Gamma Phi house
recently, Bill Phau, Delt, has
taken quite an interest in attrac
tive Peggy Allison. It seems that
Fiji, Jack (of the wond'rous
eyes) Havens, can’t quite make
up his mind between glamorous
Nanette Holmes, Kappa, and
Ruth Chapel, Theta.
Flora Kibler, Tri Delt, is now
wearing Tom Hazard’s ATO pin.
Jeanette Torney, Alpha Phi, re
turns to the campus looking love
lier than ever, and now Warren
Finke, Beta, can smile again. Sig
Ep prexy, Harry Miller, planted
his pin on a childhood sweetheart
from Lebanon . . . Cynthia Cau
field, Alpha Phi, and Ted Mc
Morran, Phi Psi, announced their
marriage of last Friday.
Missed One
Steve Bodner, Phi Delt, an
ERC is beginning to believe in
miracles—he hasn't received his
orders yet. Sigma Nu, Ed “Bam
bi” Dick and Pi Phi, Gloria Dun
ham made a most interesting and
chummy combination at the Eu
gene hotel Saturday night, but
there will be blind dates like
that.
Bob Henderson, Sig Ep boom
er boy, has been ignoring prior
ities to trek up to Portland al
most weekly on unofficial busi
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New Plan Considered
The Stanford War board is con
sidering a new plan for war ac
tivities among the women on
campus for spring quarter. All
women would be required to do
four hours of work a month in
any phase of war activity they
choose.
Activities include rolling band
ages, selling stamps, collecting
salvage, and donating blood to
the blood bank.
The war board also sponsors
the Dimes for Diplomas drive,
the Speakers’ bureau, and the
Conservation council.
-—Stanford Daily
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Rally Committee Abolished
T'ne Rally committee at Stan
ford was unanimously voted out
of existence for the duration.
Following the lengthy recom
mendation of Cardinals, the stu
dent body's representatives took
only a few minutes to abolish one
of Stanford's best-known com
mittees.
It has been decided that the
Hally committee as it is now con
stituted is too big for the little
work it now has to do.
—Stanford Daily
$ * *
War Training Class
Students of the University of
Indiana and other men and wo
men who are high school gradu
ates interested in receiving train
ing for vital war industrial jobs
may now enroll in the Purdue
war training program.
The courses to be offered are
“Precision Measurements,” “En
gineering Mathematics,” “Analy
sis,” “Industrial Electronics,” and
“Advanced Radio Engineering.”
Tuition is entirely free and
competent local men serve as in
structors.
—Indiana Daily Student
Engineering for Women
To solve in some measure in
dustry's desperate need for
trained personnel, the engineer
ing school at the University an
nounced yesterday a special
course for college women to be
offered spring quarter.
Previous training or schooling
of Moral Upswoop will flock to
the theater to see it.
We’ll Be There
The Parent-Teachers will turn
out in force, as will the darlings
of the “Don't-Do-Detriment, J ^ -
for - heaven’s - sake” association.
They're not so dumb. They, too,
read Click, Pi, Gluck, Cluck, and
Time.
When “The Outlaw” comes, the
University will no doubt be dis
missed for the day, thus enabling
the professors to sit through the
show twice and take plenty of
notes, and other research mate
rial.
It Pays
Students seeing the film will
he accorded the same credit as
the writing of a master's thesis
or a running of the obstacle
course.
But never fear, “The Outlaw’’
will probably never reach Eu
gene. |
If it did manage to swiggle its
way here via the aid of a good
healthy black market, it would
undoubtedly arrive minus those
scenes featuring Jane Russell,
Jack Buetel, Walter Huston, and
Thomas Mitchell. There's a goad
horse in the picture though,
mother.
Kinda Bate
To those still dreaming about
tonight’s rumored (and we em
phasize RUMORED) 3:30 permis
sion, may we take time off to ex
plain that we are discussing "The
Outlaw,” Howard Hughes’ god
send to the renewed existence of
the Not-So-Young Women’s Pure
Dri . . . Thinkin and Washcloth
Embroidering league.
“The Outlaw” is the film that
“Time” magazine voted the flqp
peroo of the year.
“The Outlaw” is the film that
is being shown to Boy and Girl
Scouts the nation over because
of its gorgeous nature scenes.
Hays, Straw
“The Outlaw” is the film that
the Hays office had such a good
time getting publicity from.
San Francisco’s Parent Teach
er association tore down all “The
Outlaw's” advance billboard pos
ters picturing sultry Jane Russell
reclining fetchingly on a heap of
straw because the straw pictured
was Florida straw, not Califor
nia straw.
Los Angeles barred it because
the horses used Helena Booben
stein’s “Sun Tan Smudge” (an
eastern product) instead of their
own Max Factor’s “galvanized
Gam Goo.”
New York’s Mayor LaGuarcna
is enlisting in the army so he can
see it for nothing.
Warm, EH?
Eleanor Roosevelt was about
to christen a new cruiser. “The
USS Outlaw” but the champagne
boiled over at the mention of the
name and the ship got so excited
it melted its No. 1 and 2 bulk
heads.
Now that you would cut a class
to see the picture, (need the com
pulsion be so great?) we will tell
you about it . . . Thursday.
will not be a limiting factor^
successful completion of
course, wrhich includes drawing,
blue printing reading, ship ter
minology, materials and produc
tion control.
—Univ. of Wash. Daily