Oregon H Emerald
MARJORIE MAJOR
EDITOR
ELIZABETH EDMUNDS
BUSINESS MANAGER
MARJORIE YOUNG
Managing Editor
ARLISS BOONE
Advertising Manager
Charles Politz, Joanne Nichols
Associate Editors
Shirley Stearns, Executive Secretary
Anae Craven, Assistant Managing Editor
Pvt. Bob Stephensen, Warren Miller,
Army Co-editors
Carol Greening, Betty Ann Stevens,
Co-Women’s Editor’s
Bill Lindley, Staff Photographer
Carol Cook, Chief Night Editor
Published daily during the college year except Stmctays, Mondays, and holidays and
fiaal examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon.
Entered as secoud-clase matter at the postoffioe, Eugene^ Oregon.
‘Music at the Close’
Winter Sunday afternoons with the sky grey, the memory
of leisurely dinners just eaten, the chance to just sit still and
dream, are almost here. And for those who like to spend these
special afternoons with music the library record concerts begin
October 24.
Perhaps nothing particular to write home about, depending
of course on your point of view, this weekly gathering in the
library’s restful browsing room has much to offer the busy stu
dent who wants a refreslier course in things beautiful.
Music and the enjoyment of music does not depend upon
great numbers or lack of them. In spite of the fact that the
browsing room was full last year during this recorded series,
the sense of an intimate group was never lost. Record owners
have freely offered their best albums to the series, the programs
have been very well balanced, and students have come again
and again. That constitutes success.
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To say that people turn to music in times of confusion and
distress is so obvious that it needs just this mention. And they
want to hear it when they are happy, or because the art of music
fascinates them.
Sound—ordered, made coherent and meaningful—is the
great gift of the masters to other men of all ages. And because
music is pattern and beauty, the contact with it straightens out
the tangles, sets the heart’s progress ahead.
The Sunday afternoon record concerts are little things which
students can tuck away into their memories of the campus.
Shakespeare explained their insistent charm:
“The setting sun, and music at the close,
As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,
Writ in remembrance, more than things long past.”
—M.M.
Fund Collects Moss
On the back page of yesterday's Emerald was a five-para
graph story with a rather inconspicuous two-column headline
which proclaimed, “Student Loan Need Drops During Fall
Term Registration.”
The story elaborated on the headline to state that despite
the discontinuing of NYA assistance, the demand for student
loans had fallen off from $1,174.50 during 1942 fall term regis
tration to $194.50 during the same period this year. This, a
mathematical friend assures us, is an 83.5 per cent drop.
The reason for this extreme decrease is simple enough—
University of Oregon students have more money than ever
before. Most of them worked last summer in defense plants,
shipyards, lumber mills, canneries. They made good wages—
better than they had ever dreamed of making—and they hung
on to those wages and are using them now to pay for tuition,
board and room, books, and alLthe other essentials of college
life.
Many students are working now, while they are in school.
They work for the University in its various departments, or
they have full or part-time jobs off the campus. The demand for
such employment is greater than ever. The NYA assistants
who formerly helped in all the different University departments
are now earning higher wages as regular University employees.
Since many full-time employees are in the service or have
shifted to defense industry work, Eugene stores, mills, and
restaurants delightedly welcome University students as part
time workers—when they are able to hire such students.
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Thus many students who formerly sought aid from the stu
dent loan fund are this year able to support themselves entirely,
without obtaining loans. And the student loan fund, all $105,000
of it, waits in Johnson hall unused.
Until Oregon students are needy again, it will remain there,
a very practical “helping hand” which will always be available
to aid industrious, deserving students.
—JN.
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Serenading by sorority groups
of the dormitories of navy
men stationed at the University
of Washington has resulted in
two schools of thought among
the sailors. Some of the boys
went so far as to throw pails of
water on the singing lassies be
low their windows while other
seamen dreamily sat by and en
joyed the sweet strains of soror
ity swing-slingers. Reports the
University of Washington Daily,
“It may be morale building but
the general opinion was that the
songs accomplished nothing while
disturbing many men’s sleep and
study hours.”
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According to the Oregon State
Barometer published in Corval
lis, the freshman class president
is just 17 years old and has a
definite feeling that he will be
caught in the draft within the
year.
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Talented service men stationed
on the campus will be featured
on Thursday afternoon musical
programs given at Stanford uni
versity, California. Planned for
the enjoyment of the campus in
general but with special consid
eration for the military students,
organ recitals with guest solo
ists will be given every Sunday
during the late afternoon. It was
commented that the choice of
time was fortunate since the late
rays of the setting sun through
the stained glass windows of the
Memorial church where the pro
grams will be held, will make a
perfect setting for an inspira
tional beginning of the week.
* * *
Coeds arriving on the campus
of Louisiana State university at
Baton Rouge were greeted by a
50-piece freshman band and the
Enlisted Reserve corps cadets.
The women were introduced to
the cadets and marched with
them to the parade ground to be
reviewed by the president and
the deans of the colleges. After
the review the frosh went to the
armory for the freshman dance
and following tradition, the King
and Queen each threw a flower
and had the first dance with the
coed and cadet respectively who
caught them.—Our comment:
congrats to LSU for such a col
orful and appropriate way to
start the term off right.
Apparently the University of
Utah has not overcome the un
friendly relation which existed
between the coeds and the service
men on the campus. The GIs were
hosts at a dance for the girls and
the situation is well in hand now
that the boys in khaki and the
girls in sweaters are on the way
to being pals. Important factor
in starting the feud was a re
mark made in the Utah Chronicle
which credited a coed as saying,
“Join the ASTP and release a
WAC for overseas duty.”
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Another interesting college
custom: University of Kansas
women annually march through
the campus to the home of Chan
cellor and Mrs. Malott swinging
lighted lanterns and singing,
"There’s a Long, Long Trail
A-Winding,” and entertaining
them with the traditional Lan
tern Parade serenade.
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Two professors of agricultural
engineering at the University of
Minnesota experimented with,
two-storied chicken coops all
summer and have now come to
the conclusion that hens are ful
ly as comfortable on the second
floor and lay eggs just as well.—
\yell, well, what do you know
about that?
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By PEGGY OVERLAND
He hit Eugene on a cold and rainy weekend, was broke,
found that fees could be postponed and thought that he saw
some ways to earn a little money—sort of “hole in” for the win
ter. And so John Patric, ex-everything, came to Oregon ... came
in a repulsive, battered jalopy externally, but internally a fine
old Pierce-Arrow with works like a watch.
Now that Uatric is nationally
known as the writer of the sur
prise book of the season, “Why
Japan Was Strong,” his • past
stands as one of the most color
ful examples of individualistic
living America has ever pro
duced.
Professional Hobo ,
As he told Epic W. Allen, dean
of the school of journalism, when
he enrolled in his classes exactly
ten years ago, he was by profes
sion, a hobo, and was attending
the University simply to learn
what he wanted to learn, writing,
and to attend only the classes
he found interesting.
That wasn’t so unusual. He
had1 attended under similar con
ditions, the Universities of Cali
fornia, Texas, Minnesota, Wash
ington, North Carolina, Idaho,
and Washington State college.
He was “dismissed” from the
University of Washington for
being “incorrigibly uncoopera
tive” and expelled fro mTexas
for publishing the traditional and
forbidden razz sheet, the “Blun
derbuss.”
He was pledge to Beta Theta
Pi two or three times but never
initiated because he didn’t re
spect that fraternity’s ideals and
traditions, and was “blackballed”
for not feling so inclined.
A Character
He was a “character” and ac
cording to Patric, managed to
count Dean Allen as his best
friend on the campus because,
being a journalist, he was able
to recognize the journalistic, if
not the social and scholastic val
ues of a “character.”
John Patric, who is being
called by reviewers, “an Ameri
can descendant of Lafcadio
H(?arn” wasn’t here very long.
He never stayed anywhere very
long because he was a good re
porter and never content unless
he was digging up something big.
He dug up something big a few
years ago when he published a
series of Reader’s Digest articles
and an accjmparying book on the
off-color business practices of
American garages.
Bumming Through Japan
However the success of the Di
gest articles cannot hold a can
die to the success of his latest
book, whic he describes as a
“tramp” through Japan by a pro
fessional hobo.” It has managed
to get him an invitation for a
biography in the Who’s Who in
America. The book is in its fourth
printing since its publication last
May.
There are a lot of people who
remember John Patric as a young
man who insisted on doing things
his own way. It rubbed some the
wrong way, but others, like Dean
Allen, really appreciated it.
Anyway it bothers Patric very
little. As he said in a recent let
ter to Dean Allen, he would like
the world and the politicians to
leave “derelicts like us—rela
tively, sir, I speak—free to talk
to journalism classes or to plan
for days of fishing at Frying Pan
creek.” The latter is his home
about a mile above Florence, Ore
gon.
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