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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1943)
Oregon W Emerald JACK L. BILLINGS, Editor BETTY BIGGS SCHRICK, Business Manager Marjorie Young, Managing Editor June Taylor, News Editor Dwayne Heathman Advertising Manager Zoa Quisenberry National Advertising Manager ASSISTANTS TO THE EDITOR Marjorie Major, Editorial 1’age Assistant Betsy Wootton, Chief Night Editor Shirley Stearns, Executive Secretary 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 Fred Treadgold, Fred Beckwith Co-Sports Editors Edith Newton, Assistant News Editor UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Daily Advertising Managers: Gloria Malloy, Lillian Hedman, Lois Clause, and Don Kay Yvonne Torgler, Layout Manager Connie Fullmer, Circulation Manager Lois Clause, Classified Manager Leslie Brockelbank, Office 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. — Represented for national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., college publishers’ representative, 420 Madison Ave., New lork—Chicago—Boston —Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland—Seattle. Quotable Quote. t'T'HE liberal arts, we are told, are luxuries. At best you should fit them into your leisure time. They are mere decorations upon the sterner pattern of life. . . . Men and women who are devoting their lives to such studies should not be made to feel inferior or apologetic in the face of a PT boat com mander or the driver of a tank. They and all their fellow citizens should know that the preservation of our cultural heritage is not superfluous. ... It is what we are fighting for.’—Wendell Willkie. (ACP) A '^bon't da it' Hook. . . CTUBENTS in a class room began a discussion last week. Out of that discussion may come progress toward a guide for student conduct. Much of the sweat and tears which are taken as a matter of course when students meet the disciplin ary committee is the result of student ignorance of University regulations. Not the obvious rulings, but the little stipulations which trip the unwary, and pile up to make major offenses. The idea behind the class discussion is constructive—why not have a booklet, written clearly without stilted phraseology which would he slipped into the registration material of each incoming freshman ? At present the class is writing down what it thinks collec tively. If the result is anywhere near good there will be a foundation for the publication of such a booklet. It will be coming from a group of students, and before the thing is fin ished more students will have their say. jjC i}» 'T'llK question of University discipline is a rather grim mat to some people, particularly the students disciplined. Back in 1882, it was a grim matter too. For example, a student was required to apologize before the faculty for violating.the rule in regard to drinking. By the end of the year, students in the same predicament had to apologize publicly before the stud ent body. Publicity on the apology was printed in the Emer ald for all to see. Grim then, but pretty funny now. That was in the days when “young ladies and gentlemen" were “assigned to different classrooms and required to use different stairways.” A look at the records is entertaining—and it shows how times have changed. We find that one student was allowed to recite for the Women’s Relief Corps, and that another was granted permission to attend a business meeting of the F,p worth League. Girls could not go down to meet night trains without permission from the president, and all students had to be in their rooms after 9 p.m. A student was forbidden to appear in a vaudeville show during Christmas vacation, and in 1891 the president was re quested to notify a certain man and woman that they would be sent home if “they were seen going together again." At any time during the session of the University, students were forbidden to attend skating rinks, public dances, and dancing clubs. Young ladies were warned that "in frequent ing the ten-pin alley they must not carry the matter too far.” * * * 0 YES, times have changed. But how have they changed? The average new freshman could not tell you very much—and he is the one who ought to know. Xo one is supposing that, when contemplating a sneak date or any of the exciting et ceteras, he will turn to page seven and decide not to. But, if he knows the exact rules, and the probable penalty he may think twice or even three times. XTo better recommendation could be made for a "don’t do it" book. — M. M. if a Bumnr MEET A UUDvx-\ By BETTY LU SIEGMAN With the campus invasion of about 200 pre-meteorology students and their officers this month, for a one year training program, who knows—there may be at least one former Ore gon student among them, who will be welcomed by his alma mater for further training. Several Oregon alumni, now in different branches of the service, who have returned to the campus (but only for short visits) include the following: Ex-Columnist Bob Whitely, ex-’42, who is a corporal in the army air force, recently left for Portland after a week’s visit on the campus. He is stationed somewhere in Cana da, and is engaged in ferrying planes to unidentified places overseas. When on the campus Corporal Whitely was an Emerald column ist and a member of Alpha Tau Omega. Associate Ed Corp. Hal Olney, ex-’42, who has been assigned to duty in the public relations office of the army air force at Petersen field, Colo rado Springs, Colorado, is back on the campus for about two weeks. After completing basic train ing at Shepperd field, Texas, one year ago last April, Corporal Ol ney went to photography school in Denver, from which he grad uated last September. While at Oregon he was associate editor of the Emerald during 1941-42. “Character” Don Butzin, ’42, now a second class petty officer in the navy, was on the campus Monday and left that night for San Francis co. He received his training at the U. S. training station in San Diego. A former “House of Charac ters” member (Canard clubber), Butzin is the possessor of a navy ribbon for Asiatic and for Amer ican service. WAAG Pat Holder, ’42, a second lieu tenant in the WAACs, spent four days on the campus visiting DG sorority sisters as well as lectur ing to UO women about the ac tivities of a WAAC. Miss Holder, who received her WAAC training in Des Moines, Iowa, left Tuesday for Eureka, California, where she is doing re cruiting work. Although sta tioned in San Francisco, her work includes adjacent areas. She and one or two other WAACs live together in a trailer house. “Not a Fight” John Yerby, ex-UO student, who is a flying officer in the U.S. air corps, stationed somewhere in Australia, was among flyers engaged in a battle against Jap bombers who attacked the Dar win area within the last few days Yerby was disappointed that he was unable to send down even one plane and said, “The zeros just stuck close by the bombers and wouldn’t even give a fight.” Before his Pacific service, Yerby served one year in England with the RAF. Recruiter Johanna R. Vreeland, ’33, a first lieutenant, has been named by the war department among 26 army nurses assigned to assist the American Red Cross with nurse recruiting in the Portland area. Lt. Vreeland is former educa tional director of the University of Portland College of Nursing and ex-president of the Oregon State Nurses’ association. I MUdbied IdJiUo+t SfUeA. ... | n Irvin S. Adams, 2U A few simple words of advice settled the career of Irwin S. Adams, now one o-f the top-rank ing executives in Jantzen Knit ting Mills. While a University junior he heard W. C. Schuppel, now executive vice president of Oregon Mutual Life Insurance company advise, “Look around, decide whom you want to work for, then work for them.” In the mind of business admin istration student Adams, that added up to good sense, so he im mediately started correspondence with Mr. J. A. Zehntbauer, Jant zen president, thus opening up a connection which turned into a waiting job after graduation. Evidently he really believed the last phrase, “then work for them” •—because glancing at the sum mary of his activities in the in terest of the mills, that is exact ly what he did. Fourteen years ago he visited Australia, with other Jantzen executives to or ganize Jantzen (Australia) Lim ited, an Australian subsidiary. However, expansion was not to be limited to the Pacific basin. The next year he traveled to Eur ope to buy a site, organize the corporation and draw up the fi nancial plan for the English sub sidiary of Jantzen Knitting Mills Limited. As recently as 1941, Mr. Adams and his wife flew to South and Central America and Mexico, "primarily in connection with the affairs of Jantzen S. A. Textile, Argentine Subsidiary.” Mr. Adams, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, proved that stick ing with one company pays ad vancement dividends. In 1929 ho became an officer in the com pany, in 1930, a director, and in 1938 he succeeded the late Carl C. Jantzen as secretary. Passing on his experience, he has written for a number of busi ness periodicals including Factory Magazine and Printers Ink Monthly. He won a prize in a na tional contest on simplification with a paper entitled “Is Diversi fication an Industrial Fad?” Senior Gift The senior gift committee at the University of Nebraska has started collecting funds for the clock which the senior class is presenting to the Don L. Love library. The clock will be bought after the war. A suggested two dollar gift is asked of every senior. The money will go into war bonds, to be redeemed after the war. This senior campus drive will serve two purposes: the erection of a permanent class memorial, and in the meantime, help the country through the purchase of war bonds. —Daily Nebraskan Between The Lines By ROY PAUL NELSON I DON’T KNOW WHETHER it bothers you, but I’m here to say that it bothers me. It bothers me. There, I said it. I guess I can go now. You sure it doesn’t bother you? I am referring to that clock in the sign above the Campus Cleaners. The building is a middle one in that group on the block vOth the Side. J Dirty Cleaners They call it the Campus Clean ers—partly because it is on the campus, and partly because it is a cleaning establishment. The owner must be trying to drop a course, because the place hasn’t been open for a long time. It is a nice looking clock, all right, but I can’t truthfully say that it is a versatile clock. I'll tell you why that is. Yesterday I went by at 9 and the .clock portrayed the time as being close to 11. I walked by later that afternoon, and found that it was still close to 11. I’ve noticed that it has been pretty close to 11 ever since last fall. Barbara Miller is pretty close to 19, but that doesn’t help. Two Faced Someone has suggested ty ; maybe the clock is stopped. The clock, incidentally, has two sides, and both of them happen to be faces. Going east you read the time as being exactly 4 minutes and 10 seconds to 11, while going west it reads 5 minutes and 11 seconds to 11. That’s what kinda throws you off. I don’t know what should be done about it. I only wish that Dean Schwering would go by its time on the next late permission might. Frustrate ~ Let’s talk a little about the va cating of one of the girls’ halls. I can see it now. “It is time you called for a coke date,” I tell myself. “Don’t you do it,” some thing inside me says, “you have studies to do.” _ Down in the phone booth I Eg cite the usual number. But in stead of hearing some sweet voice sing the name of a hall I hear some gruff character bark out, “Regimental Headquarters!” or something. _ It’s little things like_that that make a fella want to buy more war bonds. For Service - The new Skull and Dagger men were over at the vacated dorm helping the girls move. It was probably the first time many of them had been up on the second level of that particular building and, according to their reports, they spent an interesting after noon like I said—helping the girls move. One of the Dagger men had an interesting story, to tell. He ^ cited on how he .offered to take the names off the door of the room of two of the girls (it be ing the practice to have names on the doors of that girls’ hall) but the two girls told him he needn’t bother, and then gave each other a sly wink. The Dag ger man thought it might have something to do' with the sol diers. Close Race According to advanced reports, there should be about 200 soldiers moving in, which will just about level the former advantage the gents had in being outnumbered by the females, and inasmu«J competition for dates should be a little keener for the rest cf spring term. But the University lads have the last laugh. Closed weekends, you kpow. (Please turn ta page seven)