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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1943)
MARJORIE MAJOR EDITOR ELIZABETH EDMUNDS BUSINESS MANAGER MARJORIE YOUNG Manaodncr Editor ARLISS BOONE Advertising Manager ANNE CRAVEN News Editor Charles Politz, Joanne Nichols Associate Editors Shirley Stearns, Executive Secretary Anne 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 Norris Yates, Sports 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 postoifice, Eugene, Oregon. One a,m. ^bate-^lune Something' ouglit to be clone about it. 1 hat s the general opinion of students, both civilian and army. The subject under discussion is the amount of time coeds and soldier students are allowed to have together under existing rules and regula tions affecting the hours of both groups. That the army men have rigid, fixed schedules is understood, and no one has sug gested seriously that the army change its periods of free time to allow for more dating. What has been suggested is that coeds be given later permission on Saturday night. One plan which sounds practical would be to have 11:30 permission on Friday night, instead of the regular 12:15. 1 he 45 minutes saved on Friday nights could be allotted to Sat urday nights, thereby allowing the coeds to stay out until 1 a.mi The same amount of date-time would be preserved, but the emphasis would be placed on a period free to both soldiers and coeds. That general campus opinion will back any plan to adjust free- time schedules was evidenced in a campus-wide survey made yesterday. Mouse officers in all civilian living organiza tions were contacted, and the majority greeted the idea with enthusiasm. Some were indifferent, pointing out that there was little to do after midnight either downtown or on the campus. Some suggested that the change in Friday hours might not mccjt with the approval of civilian men who would be dating, or with the girls who went with them, but agreed that evei\ one would be m favor of 1 o'clock permission Saturday nights. On the other side of the fence were those who thought the adjustment would be better all the way around, they said thole was usually little to do Friday nights and that most of the [girls either went to shows or stayed at home. Saturday nigljt, they agreed, lias become the big “date night" on the cam pus* and that rules should be changed to meet changes in con ditions. ^ Arms men, understandably enough, were wholeheartedly in favor of girls having 1 o’clock permission one night a week. Their general attitude seems to be that 10:30 closing hours would be perfectly all right during the rest of the week, but that they’d like to have a little more time to spend with Sat urday dates. “Finallv this school might get around to being coeducational,” an air corps man grinned happily. I * ! —M.Y. One ^binte, One Meal C)ne dime isn’t very much when you look at it as one lone dime. It especially isn’t a huge sum to part with when you know how much value you will get back from it. And one dime invented in a defense stamp is all that University students are jbeing asked to give at the weekly dime-digging dinners. It’s a simple plan, and yet it can really amount to some thing important if every group is really willing to take part in the program. If 1700 students faithfully remember to pay their ,10-cent stampt$170 will be raised that way every week. The plan was devised by the campus war board, and it’s a g'ooitone. Each student is requested to buy a stamp and pay for dimmer one night a week with it. So far the response has not been yerjTastounding in tnost houses, but it’s an idea that is wortli yvliitj? and has signs of growing into a tradition for the duration. Buying a 10-cent stamp as the price of dinner may seem silly jto students living snugly in a quiet town like Eugene where evcifwith rationing, food is plentiful. But being able to get a full fncal at any price would seem more important than we can possjbly realize .to the nearly starving peoples of some Euro jpeatfeounffie's. And by giving even a dime for defense stamps, >ve dan bring relief to those people who so much need the help jthatHhev will receive when Europe is no longer the theater of dictatorships and wars. So remember your 10-cent stamp at the next dime-digging dinner. Then you can enjoy your meal and help bring better >neal« to ]>yx>ple all over the world. ll ♦ —E.N. flaiut fltGA,h . . . By CHAS. FOLITZ John Henry Nash was back at the work he loves this week. In his grey, ink-smudged printer’s smock with the shawl collar, Oregon’s “printer emeritus’’ looked not a little like a medieval monk as he sorted “cap” I’s, J’s, and X’s into a heavy rectangu lar box with meticulous care. Back on the campus to super vise the moving of his former McClure hall workshop to his Berkeley home, the squat, be jowled master of the graphic arts, one of the world’s greatest printers, surveyed each type character with eyes that can spot a wrong font “Q” on a page of Old English at a glance. “Just For Fun’’ “From now on I’m printing just for fun”—this from the man to whom William Randolph Hearst paid $50,000 and $60,000 respectively for 500 copies each of the biographies of his moth er and father. “About that job,” the rectan gular rimless glasses went up on the furrowed forehead, “Air. Hearst came into my shop one day, asked me if I would print the biographies, get them out ‘right away.’ I said I would do it ‘as quick as I can.’ It took me two years to complete the job.” In the course of the undertak ing Nash went abroad twice, first to Holland to supervise the mak ing of the paper at Europe’s fin est hand paper maker, van Gel der Zonen, Holland, then to Vien na to oversee the binding. Copies of both ivory vellum bound vol umes are on the shelves of the Nash collection of rare books on the second floor of the library. “A Lovely Man” “I've only done the two jobs for Mr. Hearst. He’s a lovely man. Very easy to work for.” Nash will ‘‘drop in” to see Hearst at his desert castle cn his return to California to discuss some proposed bookplates with the ag ing newspaper magnate. After “canning” a font of nev er-used imported French 6-point Garamond—donating the six dol lars a pound type to the scrap metal drive at six cents per pound, Nash took off his smock, suggested’ we go over to his col lection for a more concrete dis cussion. On the way over we asked the man with the typogra pher’s squint, the red paisley tie, and the grave demeanor, how he had come to take up printing as a life-work. Was it a family affair ? “No, I just hung around the printer's shop in Woodbridge, Canada so long when I was a boy that the printer had to take me in.” He worked for twro years at no salary, a far cry from the $37,500 he received from his spon sor, William Andrews Clark Jr. for 250 copies of Dryden’s “All For Love,” not too many years afterward. The Eyes Sparkled “When I quit I was a better printer than he was,” and the squint disappeared, the beady eyes sparkled and what had been the' grave demeanor became a mass of smile wrinkles. “That ‘All For Love’ job. it was a beauty, I tell you. I did 12 copies with accompanying fac simile of the original edition and color prints of scenes from the play. I printed them on antique paper from a sheet of glass.” (A $10,000 operation in itself) “A beautiful job, I tell you.” Clips and Comment Campus life in war time is the main angle of a ‘'LIFE Goes To a Party” feature to cover the University of Colorado. A LIFE magazine photographer-reporter team have arrived on the campus and will shoot the special weekend activities cele brating Navy Days vdith the parade, rally, bonfire, dance, and the coronation of the Navy Day Queen as the high spots. This will be LIFE's third word-and-picture coverage of the CL campus. . . . What’s Colorado got that we ain't? * * * Over 2,000 Red Cross surgical dressings have been made in one week by 44 coeds at Stanford university . . . This is a record to be proud of and should present a challenge to Oregon girls to do likewise or even better. * * * Note to Dr. Quirinus , Breerf,, lover of classics: The University of Idaho daily newspaper is the “Argonaut” and one of its front page columns is entitled “The Golden Fleece” by Jason. # * ** Another interesting; column is in the Oregon State Barometer, Corvallis. It is called “Yankee Doodle Dandies” and contains brief * information about OSC men in the service overseas. * * * Eisenhower is taking pre-law courses at the University of Kan sas. No, not General Dwight E., bat his nephew, Lloyd "Bud” Eisenhower, is a freshman on the campus. He began his plebe year at West Point in July but be came ill after two months . and has returned to Kansas to con tinue school until next July, when he plans to start at. West Point again. At West Point with Bud were sons of Generals Eisenhow er, Clark, Patton, and Doolittle. A Christmas Gift drive for the American-Japanese children in relocation centers in this country is being sponsored by the YWCA at' Indiana university. Every house and residence hall on the campus will be asked to contrib ute 100 per cent to the drive, which was originated by the American Friends Service socie ty. No war toys wall be accepted, but dolls, books, modeling clay, games, etc., and gifts of money are welcomed. . . . There are many kinds of drives this year, but it seems to us that this one —which is perhaps not as wide spread as some others—is worthy of note, especially because it - shows real American spirit and is an excellent example of hu manitarianism. * * * Oregon State college has or- •' ganized an "Introduction Bureau" which will arrange dates for those men unacquainted or those men adventurous who wish to attend the dances. Bureau committee workers will pair off couples us ing information and preferences recorded, on personal data cards. . . Good deal! The hand wrought 15th cen tury iron chest in the Nash col lection room with the 16 locks that open simultaneously at the turn of one key, was the source of another question. “I was going along a street in Vienna when I spied this chest in the largest display glass -window I have ever seen. It was in the far corner on a piece of beautiful velvet covered with the dust of ages. I went in and asked how much it would cost to buy it. “ ‘Are you an American,” the shop keeper -asked' me. ‘Yes,” I said. ‘$2000,’ he said.” The beam ing smile came again through the rimless glasses as he told how he later got a friend to purchase it for $1250, and of its subsequent “career” as a repository for the more spirit-ual things of life dur ing prohibition days. Six Years on Dante The man who devoted six years to the printing- of his four-vol ume edition of Dante’s “Diwno Comedy,” talked about the type he loves best—Cloister Oldstyle. mixed inks, ancT especially the red-orange lie used on BretHarte' 3 “The Heathen Chinese,” and the replica of the life-size statue of Gutenberg that stands on the s’ in the collection room. The man who makes beautiful books “for the joy of making” and gives most of them to his friends “for the joy of giving,” sat back in his chair, surveyed his realm—a lasting treasury of world’s printed word, thought of the future and more beautiful hand-set books. MILITARY STUDENTS HERE'S AN EARFUL! DeNeffe’sr are featuring a number of wear ables for army men. I. TACKLE TWILL ' Overcoats $25.00 Tackle Twill Jackets .$12.50 GABARDINE r SHIRTS 100% wool, tan color.$12 50 Poplin Tan Shirt ... ..... $3:5,0: Army Shoes $8.85 Army Cotton Sox .... ..Jjjpc:, Army Wool ISdx ..... .;.75c Army Ties $1-1 ;50 Pigskin •; 4 Gkwes .;$8.50 Pigskin Billfolds.$4 3 $6> Many other items for gifts. Hurry * 1 . down to i McDonald Theater Bldg/? DeNeffe
