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.
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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
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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.