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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1943)
MARJORIE MAJOR EDITOR ELIZABETH EDMUNDS BUSINESS MANAGER MARJORIE YpUNG Managing Editor ARLISS BOONE Advertising Manager ANNE CRAVEN News Editor Charles Politz, Joanne Nichols Associate Editors EDITORIAL BOARD Norris Yates Edith Newton Shirley Stearns, Executive Secretary 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 postoffice, Eugene, Oregon._ '/Va fikm&iliee With £riUlr “We sought not peace, but righteousness! Truth we sought, and human dignity, And freedom for the soul of man! \\ c sought not peace, nor do we seek it now, Save peace which comes when men and nations learn That there can be no armistice with evil.” (from “Endless Columns” by Hal Borland, published in The New York Times Magazine section, November 8, 1942.) Armistice Day is more important to students than any other observance. The deep significances of Christmas and the Fourth of July have lent at least a part of their meanings to the commemoration of the end of World War I. Proclaimed at first with great jubilation and rejoicing, the long years between that first joy and this year of 1943, have created what appears on the surface to be a mockery. I he mockery of kingdoms and powers which labeled a tiuce with the name of peace. Jn these years bitter disillusion has been the mood of the world. The present generation of students has known nothing but this mood. They have never known anything hut war, or the threat of wars, they have never escaped the teiiiblc attei maths, the dragging wastes of conflict. Now, on this Day of Armistice, 1943, what can they work toward, what can they believe possible? The war has reached its final stage, of unde termined length to be sure, but the prospect now is towaid the end. With the end of World War II will come another armis tice, and what can the young generation say of that armistice? * s|t * * Tn staling' that Armistice Day borrows portions of the mean ings of other great da vs, the words freedom and evil must be the keys. Tn his Armistice Day proclamation for 1941, the President culled upon the people of the T nited Ptates 1 o show gratitude for the past, to rededicate the nation to the fundamentals of human lihertv, and to defend our future. Jlcre the key free dom" is handed to the new generation, defend the futiue. 'J'lie observance of Christmas is founded on the defense against evil. 'Phis generation has seen evil; they have lived it. That sight caused C.eneral Charles I’. Summerall to review the last war, and to make this pointed observation, "Many thou sands . . . suffered wounds and broken health, and for them the y\ar can end only with life itself. * v- * * The students of today know that no treaty, no scrap of paper—however well meant, however powerful—can stop the lung- march of "the endless columns" into the Pelican \\ oods, Pic Mann s, the Ycrduns, the Bataans. the Stalingrads unless they also declare, in support ol their specific armistices, that there shall be "no armistice against evil." If this be idealism, as the critics of that sensibility use the ord, it is nevertheless an ideal to teach chddren, it is something' wcessarv, and in the refining process of history, something practical. Phis Armistice Day and the day s to come are vital 11• [his generation. If and \vlu*u Us chance comes, those memor of freedom and evil will blaze pathvavs cut with better steel. —•M.M. FISH n' CHIPS The best you've ever tasted only 45c NEWMAN'S GROTTO JtetteM. to the- £dUto>i (Ed. note—The following items about*1 ex-Webfoots now in ma rine training at UCLA appeared in former-from-Oregon character Roy Paul Nelson's column in the Bruin paper. This news appeared without the knowledge and con sent of anyone except Mr. Nel son. We now present it here with out the consent of Mr. Nelson. Question: Why are we so nice to people ?) I noticed they was some Ore gon boys on the list, like . . . Bob “Ha, ha’’ Simpson, who always buys two servicemen’s tickets when he takes a girl to a show, and . . . Nick Bergleries, who used to throw round baseballs at Oregon, and . . . Bob Newland, who used to bounce round basketballs, and . . . DeWitt Hamel, right-fielding third baseman, and . . . Bunny Potts, in the corps re ferred to as Rand, who is a plen ty smooth athlete, and . . . Paul “Who’s got a cigarette?” Moore, and . . . Stan “Wee-ber” Weber, who stood near the front door at mus ter yesterday morning holding on to a piece of string and crying, “Everybody climb the rope be fore you go out!” and . . . John “No hull” Noble, and a host of others. . . i egon; W Emerald City Desk Staff: Fred Weber, city editor Joan Mead Betty Sailor Ruthc Foreman Vic Huffaker Carol Cook Night Staff: Jan Settle, night editor Betty French, asst, night editor Mary Lee Elliott Nadyne Neet Beverly Ayer Shirley Peil Fred Weber Thursday Adv. Staff: Joan Dolph, Manager Jane Corkran Mimi Hoover Trma Snndberg Martha Bucknell Frannie Meyer Janet Field Jackie Kenfield Betty Frey Annamae Winship WAA Solves (Continued from pope one) find this impossible, some equip ment will be on hand. Mary Alderson, assisted by Ruth Shipler and Evelyn Mar shall, will see that volleyball games get under way. Nets will be set up in the main gym. Refreshments, consisting of ap ples, cokes, and doughnuts, will be sold by Connie Walters and Doone Eccles. Infirmary Welcomes 4; Senior Still Needed With the exception of a senior, new entrants to the infirmary today could hold a convention with Sam Benceniste, freshman; Lee Roberts, sophomore; and Barbara Browne, junior are all present to represent their class. Sole army man to sign the sick list was George Barker, engineer. Those who remain are: John Adkinson, Seymour Blank, Don Herndon, Mary Jane Hurd, Orlyn Lewis. Mary Frances Ross, Ches ter Rydell, John Witty, and John Woolley. Clips and Comment By MARGUERITE W1TTWER One-fourth of the students of the law school at the Louisiana State university are women. The second ranking student of the school is a girl and one of the law professors is a woman. The international president of the Quota club is one of the women graduates of that school and an other graduate is practicing law in New Orleans . . . The stork once brought men too. The 1300 ASTU G. I. Joes at Louisiana State contributed $2700 to the community war chest drive held there recently. The privates agreed they were not “hot boxed” or forced into giving anything, and the officers said contributions wlrre purely voluntary. One corporal pledged $20 from his next pay check. Lest We Forget In memory of the 62 North western university men and the one Northwestern woman who have died in the line of duty, Northwestern’s President Frank lyn B. Snyder, proposed the building of a memorial chapel after the war has ended, in a re cent address before the board of trustees. Already, row by row the cross es are going up all over the world; and already people talk of memorials for those who gave the last measure of devotion. How many freshmen and soldiers here at Oregon know that the green gates by McArthur court and the sidewalks in front of the IT library are both memorials to Oregon's men of other wars. The Kaiser Influence The University of Minnesota is operating a war production plant turning out parts for de fense manufacturers as a project of the mechanical engineering de partment. The shop which was staited a year ago to help combat the shortage of men, materials, and machines, makes semi-fin ished products for such defense plants as the Twin City ordnance plant and Northern Pump. ^ At present, “eight lathes, a porter saw, and an automatic screw machine which turns out as many as 40,000 pieces a job, are being used in the university plant. EUGENE HOTEL Presents ART HOLMAN AND HIS •ORCHESTRA + in the Persian Room 75s Per Person Dancing 9 ’til 12 Every Sat. 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