Oregon H Emerald
JACK L. BILLINGS, BETTY BIGGS SCHRiCK,
Editor Business Manager
Marjorie Young, Managing Editor Bill Lindley, News Editor
Dwayne Heathman
Advertising Manager
Zoa Quisenberry
National Advertising Manager
ASSISTANTS TO THE EDITOR
Marjorie Major, Editorial Page Assistant
Betsy Wootton, Chief Night Editor
Day City Editors:
Fred Weber, Bill Lindley
June Taylor, Edith Newton
Betty Lu Siegman
Night Editors:
John uuriey, Roger Tetlow,
Marian Schaefer, Betsy Wootton,
Carol Cook
Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays and final
examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon.
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.
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r 11'EN years ago today, Oregon students heard the first speech
Yosuke Matsuoka gave on United States soil. His pres
ence here followed Japan’s withdrawal from the League of Na
tions upon its acceptance of the Lytton report on Japanese ac
tivities in Manchuria.
It was a big day. Matsuoka’s train came in at 11:45. A
police guard detailed from Portland protected him from pos
sible assassination. His armoured car had been shipped down
on the same train. There was a preliminary luncheon at the
men’s dorm for the faculty and invited guests.
The Emerald files reveal an interesting reaction on the
part of students and faculty. When the Japanese diplomat had
completed his defense of Japanese policy—the “wish for peace
. . . and cultural and moral leadership of the world,” the fac
ulty members interviewed praised his skill, they said that the
powerful address had interested them, and “impressed” them.
But they were not “convinced.”
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JT WOULD be saying too much to suggest that Matsuoka’s
condemnation of China, and her “seducing blandishments
to the United States” was prophetic of men dying in the Pa
cific today. But there was incongruity, there was a peculiar
twist to what he said.
He told why Japan was grinding its way into Manchuria,
but he also said that a wish for peace was motivating that
drive. He insisted that peace in the Orient was Japan’s ne
cessity.
It was conceded to him then that many of his points were
sound. Such factors as Japanese overpopulation and need for
expansion had a certain veracity.
But the Emerald editorial asked this question the follow
ing day : “Why did not Japan take her grievances to the League
before she mobilized her troops? Far better to attempt peace
ful methods at first and then resort to force later as a last
desperate measure.”
That is the same question we asked in the-months before
Pearl Harbor. For Oregon students it is a tenth anniversary.
—M. M.
'Mixjiitif 0>ieXfQ*tr . . .
£j()FFEE and doughnuts wore served at the YM at 2 a.m.
Someone started playing the piano . . . there was a bit of
boogie-woogie, a few of the old songs. The boys milled around,
clunked their doughnuts . . . and laughed.
Then they began drifting off toward the railroad station—
in cars, or walking down in groups of three and four. The join
ed their assigned comrades, stood by the station in large ragged
bunches, freely inter-mixed with parents, fraternity brothers
—and a few girl friends with eyes unnaturally bright.
The train pulled in, exactly on time, at 3:05. Noisily, but
with the beginning of military order, the Enlisted Reserve
Corps men piled in the train. Inside there was roll call—and
then windows were tugged up and heads popped out. There
was shouting, good-natured insults delivered in the customary
collegiate manner. People kept shaking hands ... it didn’t
matter if you knew the person—you shook his hand anyway.
At one window obliging friends boosted a girl to an open
train window and there was a long bonus farewell. There was
n't a sadness—but an hysteria born of the excitement of trains,
journey, and danger.
There was singing, too. “There's a Long, Long Trail A
Winding,” . . . “She's the Sweetheart of Sigma Chi." . . . an
unusual number full of adolescent enthusiasm—"Here’s to Ba
ker High.” And threading through all the sounds, the recur
ring beat of “Mighty Oregon.”
And somehow, in those final moments of farewell before
20S University boys left the green spring campus behind, at
3:45 in the morning, what had previously been merely a fight
ings football song, became symbolic of a greater battle. And
old phrases gained a new, deep meaning. Words like “On to
victory urge the heroes” . . . "Were out to win again” . . .
* We’ll fight to the end.”
And finally, with all the courage of youth, "And We Will
[Win!” ' ‘ —M. W.
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By PAT E. PERRY
Feelings along the European
coast of the Mediterranean are be
coming very tense about a possi
ble allied invasion, if certain
signs, especially in Italy and the
Balkans, can be used as a basis
for judgment.
A Moscow radio broadcast re
corded by the Associated Press
reveals the important fact that
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has
been made commander-in-chief of
all German and Italian armies in
Italy and the Mediterranean
coast of France. The report also
said that Rommel had arrived in
southern Italy to take change of
coordinating all arms of the
southern defense command.
It would not be sensible for the
Germans to move their best com
mander from a crucial point of
battle, unless another location
has superseded it in importance.
If the Germans have transferred
Rommel then it must be because
the Germans feel that they can
no longer hold the allied forces in
Africa and must prepare for an
attempted invasion of the conti
nent.
Informed military opinion
seems to bear out the assump
tion that the German cause in
Africa is doomed. According to
a Washington report, if Rommel
decides to attempt an evacuation
of his troops over the perilous
Mediterranean route to Sicily,
the Tunisian campaign should
last from six to eight weeks
more. If he decides to make a
Stalingrad stand, authorities
concede that the campaign might
last until August.
The Italian people were warned
by the Rome radio, quoting Ma
rio Applius writing in Benito's
paper Popolo d’ltalia, that they
must be prepared in the even
tuality that the whole Anglo
American forces are concentrated
against Italy.
It looks as if the Allies have
lost out in Bulgaria, according
to the latest reports from that
Balkan country. Adolf Hitler and
Boris III had a meeting recently
at which they discussed the de
fense of the Balkan peninsula in
the event of invasion. It is ex
pected that Bulgaria now will co
operate with the Nazis in spite
of professed pro-Russian senti
ments.
Greece, which is considered to
be the safest spot for the conti
nent invasion because of the an
cient Salonika invasion route, is
evidently seriously considering an
attack in the near future, or at
least the Greek government-in
exile is. Byron Karapaneiotis,
war minister of the Greek gov
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By CHAS. POLIXZ m
“The Outlaw” could have been a good picture. •
The necessary ingredients were all there, and in true Holly
wood profusion: Money, good actors, money, able technicians,
money.
Howard Hughes spent $2,500,000 to make sure that all
the actors had an extra box of Kleenex with which to wipe
the make-up off their shiny little nosies.
ne nirea jonnny ±sump-ae
bump (we forget his name), the
man who made cinema photo
graphic history with his magnifi
cent job on “Citizen Kane’’ to
shoot the “O’law.”
He hired Walter Huston and
Thomas Mitchell, two of Holly
wood's best character actors, to
play the leading supporting holes.
Howard Hawks, a director of
ho mean ability, was signed to
direct the cow-cow epic.
Why, then, isn’t “The Outlaw” a
good picture ?
Reason: Howard Hughes is, as
the Ghirardelli parrot would put
it—“coco-loco.” Just a wee bit
eccentric, a charter member of
phylum Phi Beta Glub, but of
beautifully Glub; the kind of a
fellow who dreams of pistachio
soldiers playing tic-tac-toe on
scrambled egg pie. Brilliant, but
just a wee bit eccentric this
“stark raving perfectionist.”
He started “The Outlaw” on
its merry eccentric way by firing
Director Hawks because he did
n't spend enough.
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WAAC Enlistment
Women who enlist now for the
WAAC will not be called until
after the end of the semester.
University women are needed in
the WAAC because of the present
deficiency of good officer mate
rial.
When ordered for active duty,
University women will undergo
a five-week period of basic train
ing, and may apply for officers
training or for a specialists
school.
—Idaho Argonaut
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Art Exhibit
Paintings, representing some
of the best known contemporary
American painters, have been in
an exhibition in the gallery of
the Art Center at Indiana uni
versity. These paintings were
lent to the Art Center by the
Terre Haute Art Institute, which
recently built a new art gallery
under the direction of John Rog
ers Cox, and which is gathering
a permanent collection of contem
porary American paintings.
—Indiana Daily Student .
Rationing No Handicap
The home economics depart
ment at the University of Kansas
is suffering no great handicap so
far from the effect of rationing.
Substitutes have been used
wherever it has been possible.
The only time coffee is used
by the home economics students
is for a lesson, so the smaller
quantity of coffee will hardly be
noticed by the department.
—Daily Kansan
Then he proceeded to drive his
star actors, Huston and Mitchell
beautifully nuts by insisting on
up to 40 retakes of the simplest
scenes.
One of his favorite habits dur
ing the filming of the picture
was, “Time” says, to phone one
of his assistants at 3 a.m. ERC
time and' announced, “This is Mr.
Hoyt.” (a long silence—another
nickel) “Just thought of some
thing; I’ll call you back later.”
Sounds almost like Roy
Nelson dialogue, doesn’t it. flret
a wee bit eccentric.
Wonder if he calls his trans
port plane building partner, Hen
ry J. Kaiser at such hours.
Wouldn’t make any difference
He’s never there anyway.
That Hughes is brilliant when
it comes to aviation there is no
doubt; that he has been success
ful there is no doubt either—but
that he’s completely normal—
boop, boop didum dadum gurgle.
He was sure way off the beam
in using some of Tschaikowsky’s
most powerful music to "back
up’’ “The Outlaw.” He chose a
beautiful theme that goes some
thing like "tra-loo-la-tu-dum-da”
■—oh you know. The piece has
great range. It can be toned down
to a hair-thin violin whisperer
boomed-up up to a thunderous
Krupa-clout.
Hughes figured that such pow
erful music would provide the
proper "atmosphere” to push
over the climax when the climax
came. And he would have been
right, dead right, if he had only
used the drum beating, frenzy
pitch parts when the climax did
come.
Instead, he became so intrigued
with de purdy tune that he de
cided to use it every 50 feet, thus
creating a perpetual series of
climaxes that leave the specta
tor biting finger gnd toenail5
(his own) and finger and &
nails (your neighbors’s) with reck
less abandon.
Even this wouldn't have been
too bad if the parts Hughes re
leased Peter Uyitch’s musical fury
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