..®........ marjorie Major Elizabeth edmunds EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER MARJORIE YOUNG Managing Editor ARUSS BOONE Advertising Manager Shirley Stearns, Executive Secretary Anne Craven, Assistant Managing Editor Pvt. Bob Stephenson, 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 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. Ca&if. to tyotUf/et. . . The war has been very far away from the campus the last few weeks. Rushing, registration, new classes to attend or to remember to-forget to attend, the reorganization of the social mill saw to that. ; But now that rushees have emerged from their marvelous mental whirlpool over houses and the houses have emerged frbm thgir marvelous mental whirlpool over rushees, and the hospitals of Eugene and Springfield have been cleared of the victims of registration, and the soldier students are getting around—and we mean all over—it is time to settle down and .take an accounting. There still is a war going on. Men and women and children jare still fighting and dying. Just thought you'd like to know. Many former students have returned to the campus re cently. Most of them are on leave or have completed courses at training centers throughout the United States; few of them have seenactual combat as yet. We’re glad to see them back. There’s a little feeling deep down inside that rises up in us and dances a jig on its little improvised anatomical dance whenever yve see one of the boys come back on the campus. It makes us feel good with the world. You no doubt get a similar feeling— ^difficult to explain in words. • But many former students have not been back; won’t be hack. You will know some of them. We will know others. All iof them will be remembered and missed by someone. . Millions pf Russians have been dying in the last two years. [Vhfy few, if pny, pf us knew any of them personally, but some jpn.d did; som'epne misses them. Just thought you’d like to know. 1 We’ve gotten lover worrying about rationing and are think ing about mid-terms, and then there are dances for which dates Jwould be nice tangible things to have. And trips to Portland or Jback home'are nice, and so are telephone calls that don’t deal .with tomorrow’s assignments or start in on that and shift to jother things. ^Six thousand was the casualty list at Salerno beach. Surpris ingly small, the army said. Sure, 6,000 casualties, nothing at all. [Wonder how many you knew and we knew. And in the air over Germany and the low countries and on the islands of the south Pacific and in Burma and China and on the bee an s of the world they arc dying—Americans, British, .Chinese, japs, Russians, Germans, Italians, men of every na tion and every creed. Just thought you’d like to know. C.P. # • • Smooth Qneesi Machine It lias all come to a sudden stop this morning—all the ques tions and rumors and facts and counter facts that were buzzing around about the sophomore dance. The sophomores just didn’t seem It) know where they were going, and rather naturally they never got there. ; The class had a good idea—rthey wanted the army swing band to play. Ihft they forgot to consult the army officials until it teas too late to make any other arrangements for a band. And when the class of ’46 discovered they couldn't have a bajtd, they didn’t want a dance. There is a chance that things may be arranged so there can be. a dance sponsored by the sophomore class later this term, ,but right now we are wondering if this is the way all class social functions will be handled this year, or if the classes can organ ize themselves well enough to make the best of what there is to tvork with and straighten out the details soon enough and well piuiugh to make Oregon’s social life the smooth running ma chine it has been in the past. •• —H.N. WUat IdJSSfy Money 3>oed. $1 a month will provide soy bean milk for Chinese students (threatened with tuberculosis. "$5 will buy from one to six books which w ill bring new hope |to student prisoners and will enable many of them even to ob tain their degrees while behind barbed wire. $15 will support a Chinese student for a month. $60 will provide tuition, board, lodging, and clothing for a Refugee student in Switzerland. $1,500 will operate for a year one Student Center in China [with facilities for bathing, recreation, reading, and self-help. The Cutting Room By BIU BUELL - Perhaps the predominance of dialogue over ac tion and some of the mannerisms of the actors in “Watch on the Rhine’’ will seem a little strange and foreign to many cinemaddicts. This is because “Watch on the Rhine” is Lillian Heilman’s stage play transferred to the screen with very little change. The picture has more of the char acteristics of the typical stage production than of the typical movie. Bette Davis in It Herman Shumlin directed both play and pic ture. Playwright Heilman herself wrote some of the extra scenes which are added to the screen ver sion. Except for Bette Davis the cast is largely the same. The result is the best picture we have seen this year. “Watch on the Rhine” is emotionally power ful and intellectually mature. It is a “grown up” pic ture .. . quite a rarity in an industry that specializes in pleasing the sub-adolescent mind. Even before the outbreak of world war II there was a strong anti-Nazi underground movement in Europe. This picture is the story of one of the men who took part in that movement. To America The man (Paul Lukas) and his American wife (Bette Davis), who are in America collecting money for the anti-Fascist cause, visit the home of Miss Davis’s wealthy socialite mother (Lucile Watson). Another house guest, a Roumanian count, rec ognizes Lukas. When it becomes necessary for Lu kas to return to Europe to continue his underground work, the count demands $10,000 for not revealing him to the Nazi authorities. Lukas, fearing a dou ble cross, is forced to shoot the blackmailer. Ha then leaves for Germany and almost certain cap ture by the Gestapo. Acting Tops When Paul Lukas played the same part in the Broadway production both the New York Drama 'league and the critic staff of Variety designated^ his performance as the best acting of 1941. His por trayal of the sensitive man who abhors violence but does not hesitate to kill when \t is necessary for the cause which is his life work, is equally goo^ on the screen. | Although a newcomer to her pawy: Bette Davis gives a performance equal to the fife example set by Lukas. The semi-comic role of fjnother-in-law Lucile Watson adds an element of refreshing vigour to this generally somber drama. Only Objection We have only one objection to tjie picture. We do not like the extra closing scenej|,tacked on by screen-writer George Coulouris. Th* story is com plete when Lukas leaves for Geriiany. This six months-later episode is merely an egetise for Bette Davis to do a little more acting. nrnmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiimmnmnmTiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiffriniiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiimimiimi'mmiit' Chow Line, UO Style The unsung heroines of the campus are the women who cook for the army. These women serve meals three times a day to boys that came back for seconds and thirds. In Straub hall alone, 650 men are served. Four thousand bottles of milk disappear each day. As do also, 350 to 385 pounds of meat. Fifty employees are re quired to keep Straub kitchen running smoothly. They’re really interested Five cooks have their hands full with just the main portion of the meals. Two types of pantry women are needed; one group makes the salads, prepares the vegetables for cooking. The other serves food to the boys as they line up cafeteria style. This is one of their most en joyable jobs. In the words of one of them, “we get a big kick see ing the boys and having them like our food.” Four pastry cooks work continuously making pies, cakes, cookies and hot breads. A demand for seconds is always heard on pie. Hen-men Eat Too Hendricks hall feeds about 225 men. The cooks there have learned the boys dislike scram bled eggs for breakfast and scorn beans of any kind. Buffet style is the order for all meals and ev ery meal is usually over in 30 minutes. The dinner gong rings promptly at 6:45, 12:00 and 5:30. The cooks all like their work and also feel in Hendricks that they have never had a better bunch of fellas to cook for. While there is a smaller num ber of men to cook for in the for mer fraternity houses, this never theless requires lots of work and planning. There too, the meals are served buffet style. As a whole, the boys are moderately quiet at meals. They are just a bunch of boys, funny at times and always nice, according to the cooks. Steaks are always wel come. But squash is definitely out, for all meals. Mabel Paige in "SOMEONE TO REMEMBER" r;. . IF A BUtiBY i||i!iiiiiiimiiniiNmimii|i^n MEET A BUDDY By GLORIA MALLOY There’s been quite a conglomeration of unifprms around the campus this last week—what with all the V-l£’ers and n^® rines coming come on leaves. They all seem to \£ant to come back to get another good look at their alma niater—and of course, those girl friends they left behind. 1 Canard club’s own Steve Bristol, Phi Psi’s John Noble, ATO Bill Bartell look nothin’ but good in those marine uniforms. After their 12-day leave, they will all return to USC for further train ing. Beta George Blake and Bob Jackson have just completed their basic V-12ing at Willamette and after their leaves they will go to base hospital for three months training and then off to pre-med school. Cadet Clell Crane, ex-Oregon and character-at-large, reports from training at Georgetown, Virginia, that he has spent “96 hours, 14 minutes and 40.4 sec onds and expended 6.06 x 10.23 ergs of energy—making beds.” He reminisces of the “old days” when “I used to make my bed only when my mother would come to Eugene to see me.” Ensign Winston “Bill” Cox, ex Delt, is home on leave after four months training at Columbia uni versity, New York, where he re ceived his commission. From here he will go on to San Francisco to go into active service. Good luck, Bill. Before I go any further and before I will have a good night’s sleep I must rectify the error in regard to Bud Houston, of which there is no such person. The hon orable name is Bud Johnson, Sig ma Nu, V-12er, at Parkville, Mis souri. Beta Earl Walters is now a 2nd Lt. in the paratroopers back at Fort Benning. Wedding bells should be ringing very soon for him and Alpha Phi Sal Holden. Rally! Rally! Ted Loud, Beta, our ex-yell leader is back to see us from Washington State where he is a V-12-er. Maybe Ted might honor us with a couple of the old yells at the game this next week end. How about that, Ted? *s1wkinq\% I r M2 of ptivtesstB'v \ Lace Lisle Cotton Mesh