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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1943)
Oregon if Emerald JACK L. BILLINGS, BETTY BIGGS SCHRICK, Editor Business Manager Marjorie Young, Managing Editor Bill Lindley, News Editor Dwayne Heathman Zoa Quisenberry Advertising Manager National Advertising Manager 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. —. 'J^IJ E ol’ political boat hit an uncharted rock last Saturday during a meeting of the class presidents and representatives of the executive council in the educational activities office. Present at the confab were Jim Bennison and the editor of the Emerald, representing the executive council; Hank Doen cka, freshman class president; Bob Henderson, sophomore class president; and Dick Williams, educational activities manager. Conspicuously absent was Carolyn Holmes, first vice-president of the ASUO, who is constitutionally in charge of elections. Measles kept her in the infirmary. Roger Dick, junior class president was also absent, but Jim Bennison, as junior mem ber of the executive council, unofficially represented the class. After straightening out the times and places for nomina tions and discussing the fresh decree of the executive council that, irregardless of conflicts in constitutions, all class nomina tions will be held one week before election time and that the polls for all elections will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., it was pointed out that it was going to be hard to decide who is a mem ber of which class in the coming elections. ^^LWAYS before, the classes could rely on their class cards as definite proof that Joe Blow' was a freshman or Tohn Doe was a junior. On top of this the junior class constitution clearly states that anyone voting for officers of the class must be an academic junior; while the sophomore class constitution just as clearly states that in order to vote for their class officers one must he a “member of the class of ’45.” This situation apparently left the classes two alternatives: they could either have poll books made up from records in the registrar's office (which would determine the students' aca demic standing), or go to all the trouble of holding a registra tion some time before elections in order to ascertain who is in w hich class. C registration idea is unwise for several reasons—for one, it would take up a lot of time that could he better spent; for another, it would tend to cut down the total number of voters, since it is hard enough to get students to-vote without making them go through the red tape of registration first. The system of making up poll books from the registrar’s of fice certainly seems the lesser of these two evils though it also brings up complications. The main drawback, of course, is that it will require many students who are “campus juniors" or even “campus seniors" to vote in the sophomore class for next year's junior officers. It will therefore swell tremendously the num ber of “political sophomores" and make it difficult to attain a quorum (one-fifth of the class) in the nominating assembly; it will throw much of the ballot-counting worries on to the shoulders of the officers of the sophomore class. rJ"'l IERK still is, however, one more loophole left to the class es and to the executive council, which must meet this after noon to decide the issue. As was suggested at the meeting Sat urday. but never followed through, it might be possible to use the white cards filled out at registration time in order to ascer tain to which class a student belongs in terms of vears on the campus. It not only “might" be possible; it is possible. These white cards, according to Clifford Constance, assistant registrar, are distributed to the registrar’s office, the dean of men and the dean of women’s office, and the University news bureau. Permis sion to use the news bureau’s files of these cards as a "poll book" was obtained through the Emerald last night. The en tire file could be moved to the polling place, probably the VMCA house, and would be used to check the class of each voter. TN this way the ratio of students in each class would be the same as was usually followed in previous years. This ar rangement would undoubtedly make Sophomore Class Presi dent Henderson a much happier man around nomination and election time, and would also keep politicos away from .a situa tion in which sophomores, juniors, seniors, and possible even freshman (if the\ have an aggregate of over 36 hours) would be voting for next year’s junior class officers. If the executive council decides to use the academic method probably preferred by the junior class, however, it will cost the classes a noticeable amount of money and the registrar’s office an unhandy amount of time to compile poll books for election days. —J. L. B. f l nJUjL - ■JET Qwt 7/JT A NEW TYPE ^DOESN'T TAKE GASOLINE, CRITICAL materials OR PASSENGERS. Strictly Reet By FRED BECKWITH Mutual’s best bet on the Pacific Coast chain of late has been the Freddy Slack band. Leader Slack used to thump the ivor ies for the Jimmy Dorsey and Will McKinley musical aggre gations. He hasn’t been in the baton waving business a year yet, but the men under his guidance are displaying a style of rhythm very creditable to F. S. After 3200 A. D. The world no longer will need the aid of the scientist a dozen centuries hence, Dr. Ralph Lin ton, a visiting professor of an thropology at the university of Chicago, says, for by that time there will be no more scientific world's to conquer and science will “know all the answers.’’ “Already there .are indications the number of basic inventions is decreasing,” Dr. Linton said. "Once we have tapped, for ex ample, all the sources of energy, including atomic energy, th,ere simply won’t be any left to tap.” —The Daily Nebraskan War Emergency An appeal to salvage used bio logical or zoological instruments to help outfit our armed forces and civilian defense and welfare units here in America and throughout the worlds is sent out by the Medical and Surgical Re lief committee of America. A scalpel that once probed a frog's intestines or investigated a rat’s belly in a class room may be destined to play a patriotic role at some battle station or field hospital emergency operat ing table. —Silver and Gold Chemical Compound Discovery of a chemical com pound that will destroy any of fensive odor known to man or beast is claimed by three indus trial chemists. Designated as OD-30. the com pound was discovered by Dr. Walter H. Eddy, Columbia uni versity; Dr. James H. Dalbey of Chicago; and Dr. Lloyd Arnold, university of Illinois. Dr. Eddy explained the com pound literally kills the smells by burning them with oxygen as they float in the air. —Daily Nebraskan •rviuiiig cxiiva auctuug im- .oauhc*, tion no end is the choice clarinet work of Barney Bigard who for years played with Duke Elling ton’s crew. The hot tenor sax work is being handled by King Guion, a graduate of old Ken Baker band who stomped around Jantzen Beach territory. Twirl My Turban Ella Mae Morse', the “Five-By Five” personality, has quit the Slack band, however. Dig Slack on his Friday night Mutual shots. This recording business must be a pain-in-the-neck to singer Dick Haymes of the Tommy Dor sey band. Haynes joined TD right after James Petrillo insti gated the record ban, and there fore Haymes was not able to cut any sides with Dorsey. All the Dorsey releases in past months have featured' Frank Sinatra. These sides were cut long in ad vance of schedule, so that the band could jump the gun on the ban. Other bands throughout the country were subjugated' to the same process, too. Haymes, who really wows ’em on all personal appearance tours, cannot sell him self to the juke box trade. That is, unless record purchasers are able to grab “oldies” Dick waxed for Harry James and Rpnnv flnriflm cj n v Locals Now THE LOCAL PICTURE: Bob Sell returned from Portland, sans string bass. The fave instrument of Brother Sell is undergoing an $8 repair job in the City of Roses. “Ouch!” moans Sell. That singing quintet, the Four Nights & A Dream, haven’t got ten too sharp a deal from a local hotel that was supposedly book ing them and guaranteeing ait time over KORE Saturday nights. We wonder if Cliff Giffin is waking up the Theta lovelies this semester with his early morning trumpeting. Drape Shapeless Big wig governmental ration ing chiefs in Washington, D. C., have lifted their ban on the song, "Got No Stuff For My Cuff.” Originally, the capital boys charged the song was demoraliz ing a ration-conscious cuff. Ac tually, the ditty is a take-off on the zoot suit situation. This week station KORE signs By CHAS. POLITZ Portrait of a Graduate Assist ant—English. Horace P. Mulberry is a com posite of Graduate Assistant— English,” worthy of recognition in the Montgomery Ward cata logue as “our all-exclusive model at $2.78.” There is at least one, (heaven forbid more) on every college campus from the sunny mists of “Cal” to the sloppy tweeds of “Hahvahd yahd.” Fate might even have it^Btat Oregon is possessed with one. (All characters referred to in this opus are purely fictitious, of course—of course.) Now to Horace. Horace being born was some thing of a surprise. They had ex pected it to be a human. His mother was reading Stupend'o Comics at the time so she was expecting anything. His father, something of an intellectual (he wore clean shirts.to his job at Kaiser), was reading “True Con fessions” - in the next room. They carried the doctor out. Horace had been born. Horace came into the world reciting Aristotle’s theory of tragedy at the top of his already culture lungs. His parents were amazed. Horace switched tatf "’ci gar Allen Poe. “That is more like it,” they thought. “That is more down to our level.” They went on reading their magazines. Horace’s early life was not much different from the life of any future Graduate Assistant— English. He skipped grade school and studied under the Quiz Kids for several years. He knew how many times the Wife of Bath bathed at the age of two, and at three he could mumble Spenser’s Faerie Queene to himself while at the same time holding and reading Plutarch's Lives between his toes and cut ting out paper from Es quire. At four he had read Tolstoy's War and Peace in the Russian and Les Miserables in French. ^ After running A.through high school in a month or two, he came to college. He came down during rush week to be sure of getting a good boarding houses He came out of the bearding h'oiise for classes and exams. He "though Senior Proms were allusians to some thing in Goethe’s “Faust.” Girls were something Machi avelli did without. Then he read Candide. Boccas cio and Emile Zola followed. He knew all about life. He graduated. Enter present tense. Horace now “is,” not “was.” Thursday: Horace and Today, or Biography Ad Neuseum. Medical School “ At Indiana university nine hun dred pre-medic applicants for en trance into the school of medi cine were thinned to class of 12S students which will be the second idmitted this year in accordance ■vith the demand for an increased lumber of young doctors. Stu dents were selected’ on the basis character, . scholarship, physi cal abilty, aptitude for the study rf medicine, and personality. _ —Indiana Daily Student rff the air an hour earlier, there :ore dropping their 11- to - 12 ceyem record program, kniwnas :he “Night Ride,” a 60-m»e spot that afforded a chance for e jazz hot. Villanova college was the first Catholic college founded in Penn sylvania.
