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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1943)
■iJiiiiiiitiiuuiimmiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiimiiimimiiimiimmiiiimimmimumiiiiimimmiiimiiiiimiiiiiuimmiHmmiiimiiimimiiiimmmiiiiimimimmmiiimuiiiuv MARJORIE MAJOR EDITOR ELIZABETH EDMUNDS BUSINESS MANAGER MARJORIE YOUNG Managing Editor ARLISS BOONE Advertising Manager ANNE CRAVEN News Editor Charles Politz, Joanne Nichols Associate Editors EDITORIAL BOARD Edith Newton Norris Yates Shirley Stearns, Executive Secretary Pvt. Bob Stephensen, Warren Miller, Army Co-editors Caro) ureening, tfetty Ann Elevens, Co-Women’s Editors 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. *7(4® JlampA. Jlo-w Lord Gray once said that all over Europe the lamps were going out. An American article writer amended that statement by saying that all over Europe the lamps were being blown out. The remark could be amended still further by declaring that all over the world the lamps are flickering dangerously, if not actually in the process of being extinguished by the hurricanes of war. For these reasons it is more important to us than we realize to have the assurance that for the second straight year Odeon, the annual all-student exhibition of artistic endeavor, will be shown on the campus. Odeon is something unique in the field of student presentations. Unique not merely because it is en tirely devoted to exhibiting the creative attempts of students in the fields or art, literature, music, dance, and drama, but unique because it was conceived in wartime and first presented in wartime in spite of its being irrevocably opposed to all the things which war stands for. War, they teach us here—and correctly—brings an abrupt end to all liberal reform. That applies not only to social prob lems, but to the arts also, and it does not take a Dewey or a foliu Stuart Mill to see why. The new art which does come forth does so by feeding on the excitement and problems creat ed by the war itself. This is a false, artificial method of propa gation. Hooks with war themes, paintings concerned with bat tlefields, soldiers, and scenes of devastation, music that ex presses, or endeavors to express, some phase of war philosophy —few of these have ever survived to be considered great art, al though they may well be intensely popular during the actual war period. Creations that do survive deal, as a rule, not pri marily with the war, but with human problems and emotions which merely have the war as their basic root—in other words, the turbulence of the times is merely utilized, as a matter of convenience, to create a situation. On the whole, then, war, and especially modern, all-out struggle, tends to paralyze the intellect, to slitle the more re fined parts of the creative instinct. Odeon, however, is among the agencies which tend to stimulate the mind and arouse the artistic urge, as well as to keep the sense of appreciation of art alive among those who do not create. And more, its appeal works among college students—the group which literally has the future of America and of the world in its hands, to make or break. Under these circumstances the healthy continuance of Odeon takes on enormous significance. * jH * * Rut first, Odcou's continuance must he made healthy. At present its sponsors are not at all sure that the show will 1>e as comprehensive or rich in talent as last year. Four-fifths of the male students have gone, including some lively creative minds. Interest in short-story writing, poetry, drawing, and the arts in general, has flagged. The lamps are definitely burn ing low here at Oregon. There will, no doubt, be enough seriously inclined, artistical ly minded students to insure an exhibit of excellent quality. But the real success or failure of Odeon for the duration depends upon the interest shown by the student body in general. Art suffers unless it's fed by appreciation. If art suffers, than the whole of humanity suffers from intellectual starvation. With intellectual starvation comes intellectual paralysis, and with this paralysis comes barbarism. Civilized barbarism, if volt will have it so, but barbarism, none the less. Do we want civilized barbarians? Maybe we are. However, as long as we can still take an interest in attempts like Odeon, we’re keeping our better selves more alive than we might other wise be. We may still hold out hopes for ourselves.—X.Y. “It is not merely a military clique, but 80.000.tXX) fanatics who w ill fight to their death" that the Allies face, says Ramon LaCellc, one-time writer for I,a Xacion and a member of the 'Argentine embassy in Japan until recently. "Japanese people rvill stop at nothing to help their government win this war," he explained. “There is no meat, no sugar, no coffee, no tea, but above all—no complaints. A Japanese'family gets two eggs a month, fish once a week, and subsists mainly on a poor quality of rice." Up From UO By PEGGY OVERLAND Joe Gordon, ’39, that unassuming graduate of the University who by 1941 was hailed as the pivot man for the Yanks and was the man behind the scenes in the Yanks’ winning the American league pennant for that year, has come back to his alma mater. At least that is the latest rumor since Gordon returned to Eu gene this fall. And it would be a fitting climax for “the greatest second baseman in history,” to return as an instructor in physi tion to the campus from which he sprang to fame. Joseph Lowell Gordon was the type of man who did everything for himself. He had to pull him self by his bootstraps, and his early life was no Sunday school picnic. He had to shift for him self. His education at the Uni versity was completely self-sup ported, and although sporadic it managed to net him a bachelor of science degree in 1939. Coming from Portland to acquire his edu cation, Gordon was determined to finish, and he did even after he had made good in the major league baseball. While he was at the Univer sity, he naturally was one of the outstanding athletes on the cam pus. He developed the remark able agility which has distin guished him on the diamond' by tumbling on the gymnastics team. He also played football, basket ball, and baseball. It was while he was playing for the Oregon varsity that he was spotted by Yankee Scout Bill Essiclt. Essick signed him, and Joe began the long and not so tough road which has led him to baseball fame and glory. A record of his profeessional career might read something like the following: shortstop for the Yankee farm at Oakland in the Pacific Coast league during the 1936 season when his batting av erage ran a cool .300 and his fielding developed into the skilled ability that it has always been; spring training in the Yan kee camp at St. Petersburg, Flor ida, when Joe McCarthy decided Joe’s best spot was second base and sent him out to Newark to learn the intricacies of that po sition; a successful season at Newark where, although his bat ting average dropped to .280, he pounded out 26 homers and drove 89 runs across the plate. It was here that, although his position had been changed, Gordon still managed to bring his fielding av erage up to .948. In 1938 McCarthy called him back to the Yanks to fill in for Tony Lazzeri, and it was here that Gordon began the amazing career that has placed him at the top in baseball. Since then his professional career has been one season after another of skilled playing where his position In Technicolor Nelson Ecldy Susanna Foster Claude Rains 'PHANTOM OF THE OPERA" ti "MR. and MRS. SMITH'’ with Carole Lombard Robert Montgomery "THE LOST PATROL" with Victor McLaglen Boris Karloff as second baseman has won him such renown. His home life is as average as his career is not. He is a father and spends a great deal of his time at home. His hobbies^take up most of the winter layoff. Ev ery year he returns to his home in Eugene to forget baseball and relax. However, according to Joe, this year he has come home to stay and really forget profession al baseball as far as playing is concerned. He still loves to hunt in the upper regions of the Oregon hin terland, where with several friends he goes up in the McKen zie pass district every winter to hunt deer. When the duck and pheasant seasons open, he usual ly heads for Ontario in eastern Oregon for a few days of trapp ing through the country in search of game birds. Fishing an^i liig hunting dogs are other hobbies that keep him busy. Clips and Comment By MARGUERITE WITTWER A symposium on the physics of natural and synthetic rubber and other high polymers will be the highlight of the 257th meeting of the American Physical society to be held in the Technological In stitute of Northwestern univer sity. More than 350 engineers, chemists, and physicists will at tend the conference. Outstanding research men from industrial firms and professors from many universities will participate and at least 15 different phases of this vastly important war prod uct—rubber—will be covered. SKIP DAY Students at Drake university will celebrate Homecoming with the first official Skip day since the two-year tradition was es tablished in the 1941 Homecom ing when they took matters into their own hands. As part of Skip day activities free movies will be shown and the Homecoming Queen, chosen by the football squad, will be introduced by the gridiron captain at the assembly. Sororities and dormitories will compete with each other for a prize awarded for house decora tions, but, due to wartime restric tions, the budget for house dec orations is limited to $2. Preced ing the game the college training detachment will perform the flag raising ceremony, and Drake, Iowa State, and air corps bands will entertain between the halves. During the game sorority women will canvass the stadium for con tributions to the “Smokes for Soldiers fund.” “SO BE KIND TO YOUR FRIENDS IN THE SWAMP Kansas University girls’ swim ming organization is called the Quack club. . . Sounds like some thing exclusively for us Ducks! JUST TO BEAT THE JAPS Ten coeds at Syracuse univer sity in New York form the tab ulating committee which has raiinmii! 'Wintertime' with SONJA HENIE Closed Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Opens Thursday charge of the handling of junk jewelry collected from living centers and campus boxes and of sending it in five-pound packages to marines in the south Pacific area . . . Another drive is com ing. “WOMEN REVERSE THE UNIVERSE”—AGAIN Redheads, brunets, and blonds, all tall, stalwart, arrd handsome —33 men competed for the title of War Chest King at the Uni versity of Washington recently, At a War Chest assembly the li finalists were presented and the King was introduced to the of Seattle College’s War drive and to her court of 15 orous coeds . . . Uh huh, any day now we’ll have that woman pres ident, too. LINE FORMS AT THE RIGHT, GIRLS —And don't push! Date bu reaus are doing a thriving busi ness on campuses all over tba. country. The University of Wash ing bureau interviewed 7cKeoed applicants the first day—sizes ranging from five feet one inch to five feet nine inches. Blondes and redheads were in the minor ity with only eight representa tives. Although the coeds admit ted they would rather go’disc ing, dates for sports, plays, concerts, and lectureij^^^^: very satisfactory . . •. a walk around the block or a shared milkshake, huh? f Walk your way to vic tory in well-soled and evenly heeled shoes, luring your worn shoes in today for repair. We'll have them ready for you in a few days. PENNEY’S Shoes Repair Penney\s Basement CLASSIFIED ADS READER ADS Ten words minimum accepted. |irst insertion 2c per word, subsequent insertions lc per word. DISPLAY ADS Flat rate 37c column inch frequency rate (entire term): ww per column inch one time a week, 34c per column inch twice or more a week. Ads will be taken over the telephone on a charge basis if the advertiser is a subscriber to the phone. 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