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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1943)
wi nmimmim mi minimi! mil mi mim MARJORIE MAJOR EDITOR ELIZABETH EDMUNDS BUSINESS MANAGER MARJORIE Y9UNG Managing Editor ARLISS BOONE Advertising Manager Charles Pohtz, Joanne Nichols Associate Editors Shirley Stearns, Executive Secretary Anne Craven, Assistant Managing Editor Pvt. Bob Stephensen, Warren Miller, Army Co-editors Bill Lindley, Staff Photographer Carol Greening, Betty Ann Stevens, Co-Women’s Editor’s Carol Cook, Chief Night Editor Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. • C • Aid and Comfort A long summer stretched ahead of the army students. They were new here, and so plans began buzzing to provide small services for them, to create opportunities for entertainment, to help them in their personal problems. And for their aid and comfort the war emergency council was born. Composed of Chairman Quirinus Breen, assistant professor of social science and history, Karl W. Onthank, dean of per sonnel, Mrs. E. E. DeCou, secretary of the YWCA, A. F. Hol mer, secretary of the YMCA, Mrs. Hazel P. Schwering, dean of women, Mrs. Alice B. Macduff, assistant dean of women, plus interested town religious leaders, the emergency council has become by now an efficient machinery operated in the in terest of University army students. * * * * The problems, little and big, which came before this council are interesting to hear about. Most of them were the little ser vices and helps which the USO has given to the army in other places. Thus, as part of a national setup, the council began tak ing such problems as religious activity, social events, housing for soldier wives, a darning and mending service, stationery, etc., to the particular people, or groups who could do some thing about them. A great deal of the council’s service is directly connected with the churches in Eugene, and the religious groups on the campus. Discussion groups, invitations to church services, parties and get-togethers are among its main interests. A week ly bulletin is placed in the army students’ barracks. They were given religious preference cards which aided the councd in placing the new men with their own groups. The committee’s system of personal religious counciling has had considerable success. At certain specified times, army students have the chance to talk with a Eugene representative of their particular faith, going to rooms provided for this pur pose. Two weeks ago, these students consulted with these ad visers before the dinner hour in separate rooms set aside in one of the dorms. This is really a form of chaplain service. In fact it is called “chaplain counseling service.” When a trainee is bed-ridden, the University health service reports the fact to the council, which notifies the church in which he is interested, and they in turn do all they can to help. When the housing shortage was at its worst, wives of army students could not find places to live. So a general appeal was sent out to the churches.. The next Sunday, special requests were made for the cooperation of Eugene people, and suitable accommodations were finally found. The YWCA established a darning and mending service, the YMCA bought tennis rackets for some of the boys who wanted to spend their free time on the courts. In addition, the YMCA opened its doors for reading, ping pong, listening to the radio, and resting. During the summer, some of the trainees went to Camp Lucky Boy since they lived too far away to go home during their furloughs. Picnics and outings were planned when possi ble. Faculty and townspeople arranged to entertain the army students in their homes. * * * * What does all this mean as far as the student committees and boards already set up for war activities and for coordination of social events are concerned ? The war emergency council stepped into a new situation and made a fine record of their accomplishments. As the fall term begins to gather momentum, their plans are expanding. But the council does not, in fact do not want to do what the students themselves accomplish through their committees and boards. Particularly the new student coordinating committee and the campus war board have many important fields to con quer, this one socially, the latter practically. This “grown-up” committee which has included at one time or another any University officials who could help, can serve to some extent as a model for student efforts. While their fields are not strictly the same, they have many of the same goals. There are new problems which student governments all over the country are facing. Oregon’s student government has a new opportunity to test itself. And it might well take a leaf from the success notebook of the war emergency council. H5t. JOHNSTON Globally Speaking By BILL SINNOTT Be it understood that the views set forth in this column are my own and in no way reflect the opinions and observations of the Emerald or its editor. * * * * Probably the most important conferences since the Paris peace “get-togethers” of 1919 will start withip the next ten days in Moscow. This tripartite conference of the foreign min isters of the United States, Great Britain and Russia must be a success to insure the prosecution of the war. Our delegation will likely be made up of Cordell Hull, General Marshall, and Averill Harriman. The British will probably send Anthony Eden, Lord Beaverbrook and Field Marshal Brooke. The conference is a great tri umph for the Russians. The So viets remember that after the October revolution both the Unit ed States and Great Britain land ed troops on Russian soil to aid the Whites in their attempt to overthrow the dictatorship of the proletariat. The Kremlin recalls, too, the long years of diplomatic isola tion after Versailles. Russian pride was affronted! by her fail ure to be asked to the Munich conference and the sending of William Strang, a minor foreign office official, by the British to the U. S. S. R. in the summer of 1939 to negotiate a mutual-assist ance pact against Nazi aggres sion. The question of a second iront is the paramount question before the conference. Moscow is not satisfied with the third front in Italy. They want an invasion of France and the Low countries immediately to take off some of the terrific pressure their armies and people have been under in almost single handedly holding off the Wehrmacht since June 1941. Czechoslovakia is another matter before the foreign minis ters. A few months ago, London and Washington prevented Benes from concluding an alliance with the U. S. S. R. The Russians view this as an implied acknowl edgment of the hope of the west ern powers to set up a “cordon sanitar” or small states, stretch ing from the Baltic to the Black sea, to shut out the U.S.S.R. from western Europe. Turkey will be before the con ference. In recent months Turko Russian enmity has flared up again. A border skirmish between Turkish and Red soldiers oc curred a few weeks ago. Premier Saracoglu of Turkey has never forgotten the weeks he spent in Molotov’s anteroom waiting for an audience. The future governments of the countries of western Europe must be threshed out. The con servatives of the western powers look with alarm on the Free German and Free Polish commit tees set up on Soviet soil. The conference must succeed in drawing up a thorough plan for the conduct of the war and for a permanent peace to follow. Oth erwise it would have been better if the conference had not been called. The conference’s failure might lead to Stalin’s making a nego tiated peace with Hitler. The de Mail Clerk Kept Busy According to Technician ’ grade James A. Lee, the am students here would rather rj ceive mail than eat. So, althow life may be a little easier on th| cooks, Corporal Lee, mail order ly, just hangs an “Open A| Hours” sign on his office door Approximately 800 letters am 200 packages and newspapers are delivered daily at 5:30 mail call Of this number, a very small vr. centage is V-mail. Complications arise when tlj men fail to have their address* changed upon moving from onM unit to another. A recent detach, ment was sent from here to Camp Roberts, California ani every time Corporal Lee forwards their mail, it is promptly sent back. Just one of his headaches' No More SWAK A recent order which may af. feet the morale of many letter writers and receivers is the bat on such sentimental symbols as S.W.A.K. on the backs of envel opes. Special delivery letters, cease to become such when they hit the army pigeon holes. Lett^i are considered as special only un til they reach their military des tination and from then are treat ed like any other mail. Created June 4, at military headquarters in the men’s physi cal education building, this ser vice is headed by Lt. Victor F, Manson, adjutant. The office is now situated in the orderly room of Company A, the men’s dormi tory. Oh, Yes—.Santa Claus! Because more than 1,000 pack ages will arrive at Christmai time, we wondered if Cpl. Lei shouldn’t start relaxing befon the holiday rush. But he merel shrugged his shoulders and dry/ remarked, "Every day is Christ mas around here.—M.S. mocracies would then face the prospect of the war’s lasting a decade longer. And in Exchange Coeds at the University of Michigan are taking care of the navy men stationed there in a nice clean way. Three girls have started a laundry service which they call the BBS and to date these campus cuties have washed 24 navy undress whites at 40 cents each and are already ex panding their business. * * * University of Washington Daily reports that the UW canteen for service men on the campus is operating successfully; $200 has been contributed to the V-12 wel fare fund from the profits made by selling candy, cigarets, etc., to the service men at govern ment prices. * * * All ye who grioe about the time schedule of classes heed this little item: the University of Kansas school of engineering op erates on a 24 hour basis and 500 U.S. navy machinist’s mate trainees are handled daily H* would you like to report to psych class at 1 a.m.? * * * ■> Being sent through college ty her son is Julia Minton, 60, one of the oldest and most active coeds at Arkansas university. She is taking education and a basic mathematics course which is required of air crew trainees. These women! * * * Fifty dollar hats made of kit chen towels, tea strainers, and grapefruit halves and sold by an exclusive Chicago hat shoppe are described in October 4 Time mag azine. * * * Boots, boots! “Sailors on sub marines have synthetic rubK seaboots made with nonskid sote and room for FOUR pair of wool en stockings.”—S. F. Chronicle —M.W If This Oregon "Mist" Has Ruined your hair-do ^~m let 797 Willamette GIgsuA BEAUTY SALON Give you a new permanent Balcony of Tiffany-Davis