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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1943)
Oregon W 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 ASSISTANTS TO THE EDITOR Marjorie Major, Editorial Page Assistant Betsy Wootton, Chief Night Editor Shirley Stearns, Executive Secretary Fred Treadgold, Fred Beckwith, Co-Sports Editors Edith Newton, Assistant News Editor UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Daily Advertising Managers : Connie Fullmer, Circulation Manager Gloria Malloy, Lillian Hedman, Lois Clause, Classified Manager Lois Clause, and Don Kay Leslie Brockclbank, Office Manager Yvonne Torgler, Layout Manager Day City Editors: Edith Newton, B. A. Stevens, June Taylor, Fred Weber, Marjorie Major Night Editors: John Gurley, Roger Tetlow, Marian Schaefer, Betsy Wootton, Carol Cook Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidaya and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene. Oregon._ — 440UR enemies are attackinS us with the two types '“'of weapon—on the one hand, with guns and tanks, with planes and ships; on the other, with the no less powerful weapon of propaganda. Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda, has contributed as much to German victories as have the planes of Goer ing. . . . Without propaganda Hitler could never have come to power; without it he could never have created the most powerful army the world has ever known; without it this army could never have won its most spectacular victories.”—Dr. Theodore M. Greene, professor of philosophy and chairman of the divisional program in the humanities at Princeton university, believes that to defeat Hitler America must discover and use the democratic equivalent of Nazi propaganda. tM'OSUtob, 1944 . . . nPJIURSDAY two women’s honoraries, Phi Theta Upsilon A and Kwaivra, tapped sophomore and freshman girls at the assembly for installation ofASUO officers. Friars and Mor tar Board will make public their choices for the coming year this weekend. Many, many students are on the outside looking in as far as any type of honorary is concerned. These students can, and often do, question whether or not pledging an honorary is important, and if the experience, which comes after all to a relatively small number, is worth the effort and time which must be spent in preparation. This attitude is a sincere one as contrasted with the sour grapes variety which is loud in its pronunciations upon "poli tics,” but it is also incomplete. The idea that honoraries are something to work for is correct. Awards and recognition are pushing elements in campus life, they make the effort more satisfying, they give the added filip to hard work. :|: * * * np.HK students who question are neglecting the most vital contribution which an honorary makes toward a student s career. This contribution really has nothing to do with the actual pledging. It is in the years before, when a student is working towards high scholarship, leadership, and special abilities that real development comes. So honoraries are not the end and all for a serious student, they are just recognition for as many of them as possible.—M.M. ^bauhhf, 9mfiGSitcL44t. . . npONIGHT’S Junior Prom may well he named as the final of ficial class function of the University as we know it for the duration. By next year the majority of the male population of Ore gon will be far removed from colleges and college life. They will he undertaking a nn*re difficult problem than merely mak ing eight o’clocks, or cracking that physics mid-term. It 11 he up at dawn, keep active and on your toes the entire day, and then wearily hack to that inviting bed at a time when the aver age campus Mr. and Missy are just starting out for the even ing’s entertainment. The confines of wartime have shaved much of the Junior Weekend program down to its present size. The Canoe Fete, the main highlight of the entire weekend of festivities, has been suspended till peace again settles down over the nation. s|s $ )jc rp^UT because of the brilliance of the fete it will, of course, he re-established at the conclusion of hostilities. Last year the fete was replaced by the gigantic musical, “Of Thee I Sing,” which was a tremendous success. For the 1943 Junior Weekend even such a musical was out of the question. Lack of materials, lack of characters for the cast, and lack of time could be blamed for its disbandment. So, on the shoulders of the Junior Prom falls the respon sibilitv of being the big, number one attraction on this year’s Junior Weekend program. It w ill be rendered doubly impor tant as a final social get-together for the students of the “U” until the war has run its course, —F. T. inii!iiiiniiiiiiiiii!niiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiii[ii!iii!iiiii!iiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iniiiiiiii[iiii!ii^ By LYNN JOHNSON With their backs to the sea in northern Tunisia, the Axis forces are putting up a stiff fight against the encircling Allies. Ev ery foot of the rugged terrain is being desperately defended, and at some points the Germans have counter-attacked with slight success. The British first army was driven from a strategic height west of Bizerte, but other Axis attacks have only succeeded in halting the advancing Allies without retaking any ground. American troops have been stopped within ten miles of Ma teur, but have been able to hurl shells into the important Axis supply point with long-range ar tillery. The effectiveness of American artillery fire during the campaign has been the object of much fa vorable comment. Both person nel and material have been praised for the support they have supplied advancing forces over areas where the defenders had to be blasted methodically from strong positions. Reports of important fleet movements from Gibraltar have again been circulated and may point to a new phase in the North African fighting. With the Axis forces finally concentrated with in a comparatively small area Allied leaders may well be plan ning a surprise move designed for a quick knockout blow. Slackening Fighting on the Russian front has dropped to the smallest scale in recent months and both sides are apparently making prepara tion for intensive spring and summer campaigns. Air activity has increased in some sections apparently for the purpose of dis rupting supply lines as well as making reconnaissance of the preparations taking place. With the exception of a naval task force raid on the Japanese base on Attu in the Aleutians, action in the Pacific has been confined to scattered bombing missions. Heavy losses suf (Please turn to paae seven) •i:,!-:;,i|in!r!l!il!!l!llll!:iil!llii;;iilill!IIIUill!llll«^^ (g^a^iL to A. C. P.'» Correspondent Reports from Washington llllllllillliillllllllliillillliiilllllllllllllllllfi Attention of tomorrow’s career women is hereby directed to today’s No. 1 Womanpower shortage nursing. Public health officials in Washington are gravely concern ed about this shortage. Fighting and working America must be kept well. It takes good nursing to do it. Unless the nation’s nurse power is reinforced by enrollment nf fiS firm students in nursing: schools this year, America faces By B. A. URQUHART At Berkeley The woes and wit of university engineers are blended expertly in the April “Mad Engineer” edi tion of the California Engineer. An increasingly important fig ure on campus, the engineer has found that his role engages new hazards and humor, as he be comes the victim of designing women, professors and army tal ent scouts. In publishing a humor edition, the engineers have not forsaken their real purpose, for they in clude a section with timely arti cles on Pan-American highways, new air protection and the im portance of railroads in the war. —Daily Californian * * * Blood Donors Three hundred and sixty-nine pints of blood were given to the Red Cross mobile unit by people of Lawrence and university stu dents. This blood, which was tak en at a community building, was sent to Chicago in cold storage where it was dehydrated, packed in glass containers along with glass-cased units of distilled wa ter, and it will be used for men in the service. —Daily Kansan War Status Senior history students and commercial geography students at Benson high school this year found themselves under a war time curriculum. Some of the changes: modernized textbooks that devote the major portion to the study of problems in connec tion with war, such as: ration (Plcasc turn to page seven) 0 wo* ovt 'Wasn't blanche smart to ask us alt to her party when she knew none of us cou/d waste gar ?" a real threat of great suffering and less of life through epidem ics, disaster, accidents or enemy action. The statistics which picture this shortage are astoun«^!, especially for industrial boom towns near war plants. Thous ands of nurses are in demand' in such spots—yet hospitals are fre quently non-existent. Sometimes even doctors are not available. Going Up The average number of pa tients under treatment in hospi tals at any one time has in creased 8 per cent over 1941 and is mounting steadily. Thousands of nursing vacancies now exist in government and civilian institu tions. i ne result, i» iremenuous pres sure on available nurses . . , an average of 2.64 patients per nurse eveery 24 hours including all administrators, supervisors, instructors, staff burses and stu dent nurses ... 10 patients jjer nurse in tuberculosis hospi|l 3 ... 75 patients p^r nurse in men tal hospitals. The shortage is aggravated by entrance of about 33,000 nurses into the army ajid navy nurse corps which wilt require 3,000 more each month; More and mores nurses—65,000 more this year—is the only hope of thousands of sick and injured, That’s a wartime challenge to women to plan their lives so that others may live. ’ No Quiet on the Campus Front So far, 488 colleges and uni versities have been named as “approved for inspection and possible negotiation of contract” under the army and navy special ized training programs. The list is virtually complete and it’s likely very few more institutions will be needed. But still there’s no certainty in the future for -harried college administrators. For one thing, needs of the services themselves are not static, They’ll change with the tides oi war and the scope of America’s participation. Another uncertain ty is the lack of assurance of the number of meq to be detailed tc the training programs. And it now appears the army’s program will not begin any sizeable oper ations for several weeks and probably will not reach full speed until June or July. Causes Oelay These uncertainties have led many schools to delay adjust ments to the specialized pro grams until contracts are actu ally signed. f* With the service lists complet ed, schools not named are facing again the question of how they can best serve the war effort. Civilian and military officials hope they’ll remember the oft reiterated statement that the most serious manpower shortages are in technical and professional fields. They’re also anxious that no discrimination is made be tween students in uniform and students in civvies. Both are preparing for vital, patriotic contributions to the war. Will the Jobs East? Not even history’s great! armed conflict can divert atten tion from the problem of earning a living. College students going into the services want to know whether they’ll have jobs when (Please turn {o page seven)