Oregon If Emerald JACK L. BILLINGS, BETTY BIGGS SCHRICK, Editor Business Manager Marjorie Young, Managing Editor June Taylor, News Editor Dwayne Heathman Advertising Manager Zoa Quisenberry National Advertising Manager Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays and final examination periods bv the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. ASSISTANTS TO THE EDITOR Marjorie Major, Editorial Page Assistant Betsy VVootton, 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 4 • • Won't Re jRatuj, JT’S getting close to July 1. You can tell by the groans and sighs of University naval and marine reservists who are both relieved and apprehensive o\ er the “great step’’ they are soon to take. After their recent meetings with Dr. Kossack they are be ginning to get a general idea of what is in store for them, and little by little information released officially from Washing ton makes the situation less hazy from their standpoint. An authoritative release which came in to the office the other day made it known that 80 per cent of all the men who will be called to active duty July 1 in the Navy V-12 program will be inactive reservists already in the colleges ai*d universi ties. The other 20 per cent will be high school graduates who have enlisted in the naval reserve. High school graduates will enter immediately on the pre scribed navy curricula, but the college reservists will be per mitted to pursue additional studies under their existing aca demic program. i-s j|< ije rJ~\H If navy has a primary interest in disrupting as little as possible the academic program of the reservists now in college. The statement describes the system as follows: "Four-fifths of the student reservists who go on active duty in the navy college training program on July 1 will either stay where they are, to complete their college careers according to previous plan, or, if enrolled in a college having no navy quota, will be transferred to a navy allocated college offering similar courses in the fields of their major interests. "Hence,” it was explained, “colleges under contract to the navy will not be deluged with freshmen; on the contrary, they will receive transfers at all levels, from second-term freshmen to second-term seniors, plus entering freshmen classes of ap proximately normal size in relation to the total quotas for all —J. L. B. classes. • • • Wand JleCfOcq, T^Y NOW most of us have read “See Here, Private Hargrove” and have seen at least the funny side of armv life. Letters from pals and boy friends put us up to date on the personal angles, books and newspapers are full of the accounts of cor respondents who have something of the dramatic touch. It’s certain, however, that Americans aren’t getting enough of the atmosphere of foreign campaigns. Whatever excitement, ■whatever significance exists seems to he waiting for a Hem ingway and the long parade of authors from the last war. We seem to he waiting for the “Fix Bayonets,” the "I Saw Them Hie” almost certain to be born again under new titles and new things to say after these years have ripened somewhat. {^TUOKNTS particularly, are thirsty for the kind of chronic ling which is outside of newspaper fact. Occasionally an articulate buddy comes back on furlough from Kiska and we know his sensations watching death whizz past from a P-38. The newsmagazines circle the “human interest” stories from the battlefronts with wavy red lines—and they are read before the reports from Congress. But it is not enough. Although many Americans are satis fied with the romantic war fiction glutting today’s magazines and the clap trap issuing from “patriotic” radio stations under the guise of drama, the thinking man wants it straight and wants it good. And he wants the nearest thing to the truth— the subtle mixture of human reaction and established fact. All this is going to take time, lots of it. But letters which trickle in from students overseas reveal encouraging signs that great war literature is a-borning. These letters, ata least some of them, are catching the glamour, the stench of African places . . . one of them tells of the slaughtering of a camel at dusk, the old forts of the Foreign Legion. Perhaps that former stud ent never wrote before, perhaps he never will again. But others will, so that ordinary people can learn something of what it was like and find beauty and horror and mystery in the public librar ies. \\ e will need some legacy besides casualtv lists and de pression. It seems that legacy is being made. Will there be enough courage to write it? —M, M. Between The Lines By ROY PAUL NELSON THE DEMERITS THEY so freely pass around in military usually insure a full classroom as the starting bell sounds. It isn’t very often that a character walks in late to an ROTC class. But Tuesday it was five min utes after the hour and Major Averill began to wonder what happened to his assembly. Only four were present out of about ten times that number. “Where is everybody?” the ma jor wanted to know. And nobody knew where everybody was. The major investigated. He found that the cadets had been locked out of the shack. Who it wras who effected the bit of sabo tage is not known. And how the first four got in is also uncertain. Missing The latecomers filed into their seats. “I noticed you didn’t make too much noise in trying to get some one to open the door,” the major mused. Missing from the roll call was the boy who lias it around for the Emerald. Some call him Bert Moore. Some call him other names. Moore, it was reported by a member of the party, had mut tered something about an open door policy and left. No Moore This is the next to the last is sue of the Emerald for the term. But that I mean that the next paper wall be the final one. Which is the same as to say that there will be no more papers after the next issue. The staff has got to take a rest to catch up on its poker. Dr. Howard of the law school didn't like Saturday’s SDX edi tion. “Why don’t you look up the word ‘hell’ and see if you can find some synonyms for it,” was all he had to say. Wondering We are all wondering what the detachment headquarters will lock like and how it will operate as a part of the school when once the program gets underway. Per haps these words written by a friend in a similar training school will give you an idea. He writes: “We have a sweet set-up here. In the first place, none of our neighbors can play (Please turn to page seven) Around *j I By BERT MOORE This is my last column of the year. (There will be a short pause while Clint Paine, John Busterud, Len Surles, Ted Kleh met, and Jack Leonard lead a cheer.) I thought that instead of writing gossip this morning I would tell you about writing a gossip column, instead. Another Have It ^Illllllllllll!llllll!l!!ll!!iyil!in!li!llllllllllllllllllllllllinil!!!lll!ill!llli:i!ill!lllill!llll!lllll| A fi/eut By BERNIECE DAVIDSON Executives in every industry are still sending out the plea for more help^some of the girls graduating from the University this May have taken advantage of the situation and have already accepted positions; others are waiting for their applications to be accepted. The following girls have some definite plans for their futures. Marge Dibble will spend a month in Portland interviewing prospective Campfire councilors before she leaves for Mills college, June 27, where she will receive three weeks training for a Camp fire executive job. Marge plans to do executive work in the Port land Campfire office this fall. WAVE Recruit Abbie Jane “Skipper” White is waiting to receive her orders from the WAVE recruiting office. Margaret Ann Jackson has en listed in the WAACs and hopes to do public relations work when she has completeed her basic training. Gertrude Kaye wall begin teach ing health and physical education in one of the Portland high schools in September. Personnel Work Carolyn Holmes intends to do personnel work in San Francisco and Lilas Todd will do public re lations work in Oregon. Three journalism majors that have jobs awaiting them are: Betty Biggs Sehrick, who will work for the United Press in Portland; Janet Wagstaff begins May 17 as a reporter for the As torian Budget; and Mildred Wil son will do newspaper work in San Francisco. Dorothy Bienkinsop has been appointed adviser for the housing authority in Portland. fe .......... "■""■■•niimiiiiiHiiniiiiiii mu him I iUiUllUimi | Mildred TiJlhan Spiel . . . jj Lila Bell Acheson , 'l7 yiiiiiiimiiiimiiiniiiiiiiimmiiiimiiiiiinniiiimin Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, '17, started something. The "some tiling" was nothing less than the Headers Digest”, — which has grown to be a magazine with a world shattering circulation of 10 million readers. Accurately speaking — Mrs. Wallace was only half responsi ble for the founding of the Read ers Digest—50 per cent of the credit rests on the shoulders of her husband, DeWitt Wallace. But between them they originat eded a brand-new idea in the field of magazines—and turned it into a definitely paying concern. Surprise Sometimes even the Wallace's are a bit startled by the success of their brain-child. A few years ago, when tlieir old offices proved to be too cramping for the ex panding staff—they had con structed a lovely rambling brick structure on the outskirts of Pleasantville, New York. That, they decided, would be that for a long time. It has recently been necessary to construct another building— as large as the first—to house the little magazine with the big circulation. Outstanding In 1939 Mrs. Acheson was se lected as one of the ten most prominent women of 1939 by Dur wand Howes, editor of the bio graphical dictionary of American Women. He said that in his opin ion the ten women had become prominent by benefitting man kind “either through their tal ents, their scientific achieve ments, or their civic and social activities.” Of Mrs. Wallace, spe cifically, he cited her as being outstanding” because, with her husband she founded and has car ried on the first magazine of its kind in America.” There was little in the German major course that Lila Bell Wal (Please turn to patje seven) g-ooci reason is mat mere isn t any gossip. Now You Know Now there are three ways that a columnist can collect dirt: he can go to every dance, pit^’, show, concert, game, and sjSid the rest of his time hiding under bushes in the cemetery. This takes too many hours and gives you no sleep; it is very imprac tical. Secondly, he can eavesdrop. He can sit in the Side with his ear glued to the partition between booths, or he can sneak through living- organizations at two in the morning and listen at doors, stopping if he hears a good bull session inside. This is a fine way, until he gets caught. Then it is not so fine. Glad Hand The last way is the easiest, but it is very monotonous at times. You simply greet every one you meet with “Hello, what do you know that’s new?’’ and wait for them to tell you the .news. If m hit a gusher, yoat column^.; made, if not, you-lill it up with crummy poetry, pke the follow ing: Pity the NaVy Cadet or Why Can’t We Leave the Last of May When the ERCs Went with the breeze Coeds flocked to the S.P. station, But who will be At the depot with me When I entrain to serve my na tion ? Now I’m not mad Instead, I’m glad That the Erks had such a “kissed off” parting The point is thisu I, too, want to kiss A girl or twelve before my st^ ing. There’s no such lhck, The coed Duck Will be away when I depart . . . July the first Is daily cursed From the bottom of my broken heart. It Depends What can a columnist print? Morally, it depends on whether he feels affectionate toward his hair and likes to have it with him constantly. One -thing, items like the next examples are al ways safe. — Pins and rings Gene Lock man, DG, took Ed Allen’s ATO brass, Suzy’s Marie Cudlepp is now wearing a diamond from Clay Jones, Phi Si'g; KKG Peagf Klepper has announced her Wk gagement to Chi Psi Bud Fenton; Stan Skillicorn gave his Sigma Nu white star to Fee Bobby Mor rison; Nelda Christiansen, Theta, became engaged Sunday to Beta Bing Osburn, who is now at Port land U. But when you get into esca pades, rumors, tales of sneak dates, and so on, things aren't so easy. To print or mot, that is the question. Last night somebody came up to me and said that Clarence “Pee-Wee” Horton was a secret admirer oTAudrey Holli day. I can’t check it, for Audrey wouldn’t know and Pee-W^ wouldn’t admit, but it still mi&f be true ... c One Advantage And there you lire. It’s a prob lem. The only goojl thing I’ve ever seen come from ^printing things (Please turn to page seven)