MARTORIE 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
Bob McDermott Warren Miller
Army Co-editors
Norris Yates, Sports Editor
Carol Greening, Betty Ann Stevens,
Co-Women’s Editors
Bill Lindley, Staff Photographer
Carol Cook, Chief Night Editor
Published daily during the college year except aunaays, iviunuaya, **«*«*.j. —
final examination, periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon.
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice. Eugene, Oregon.
Oh SatUuf @CsJzef and Still...
While having fun at Coed Capers, tonight University and
tow n women are suddenly going to find themselves in the de
lightful condition they have always heard of having theii
cake and eating it too. 1 his is because the Capers has turned
into a triple action affair whereby it will (1) furnish fun for
the “iris, (2) help but' a bomber to bear the name of the Ore
gon Federation of Women s clubs, and (3) put bonds in the
treasury of the Associated Women Student’s organization
which can later be used for scholarships.
Midst of all the shouting, laughter, and never-a-dull-moment
spirit of the Capers, the perfect answer to the what-to-do Fri
day night question, there sounds a serious note that is actually
more important to University women than all the fun, food, and
frolic they will enjoy. It is the important role of helping in the
big job of buying a bomber to bear the name of the state of
Oregon.
Although, the average coed is blissfully unaware of it, the
associate women students organization is a member of the
Oregon Federation of Women’s clubs. This state wide organi
zation is holding a campaign to sell $300,000 worth of defense
bonds tn finance the building of a bomber for this state.
The C.eneral Federation of Women’s clubs, an organization
made up of all the slate groups, hopes that each state fedciation
will sell enough bonds to make it possible to purchase enough
bonds to buv a whole fleet of bombers, each one having the name
of a state on it. The campaign ends the last day of this month,
so it is important that the bonds be sold as soon as possible.
Lane county women have already once proved themselves
fully callable of putting through a bond-buying plan such as
the federation is now working on. During the Third War
Loan drive they bought enough bonds to finance the purchase
of two hospital planes.
And while the AWS L helping finance this bomber, it is
aLo helping itself because the bomber-buying plan is double
barrelled with the good it does. The profit from the Capers will
gi.i towards buying bonds from the Federation (which is an au
thorized sales organization of defense bonds) to help them meet
the $300,000 goal this month.
Hut the bonds will remain in the possession of the AM $!
This actually makes it possible for the AM A to cat their
cake and have it, too. The help in reaching the bomber goal will
be clone while at the same time a fund will be built up in the
’AM S treasury which can very well be later used for such a
purpose as furnishing scholarships for returning service men
and women.
So tins year the Coed Capers is much more important than
it ever has been in the past. It’s far more than just a good time
Air Friday night—it’s an opportunity to help equip our fighting
nu n and also to furnish scholarships for those men when they
o mie back and need an education to help make the peace as
much of a success as they are going to make the war.
And with all this good coming from it, the Capers is bound
'to be a success. Everyone in the program and working on it is
cerlainlv doing his part. The chairman of the affair has revealed
lb,., vveil the girls in the show as well as the patronesses have
insisu-d that they want to buy tickets even though they could
be quests and not pav the 25-cent admission charge. It is such
a giaid investment in helping the war effort as well as fun that
in' one wants to miss it.
—K.A.X.
QUOTABLE QUOTES
By Associated Collegiate Press
"\Vo who believe in education have a charge to keep and a
future to guard. This is, of all times, one in which we must see
;o it that 'the light does not go out.' We are the eternal optimists
and id* ulists. In spite of discouragement let us continue to have
faith in education as our one great hope. Let us discover that
kind of form of education which will serve the kind of world
which we hope is in the making. That will be our contribution
o the world of the-thought-to-be. \\ e cannot strive for less."—
v*r, ,idcnt C. A. Dykstra of the University of Wisconsin charts
artime course for education.
Clips and
Comments
By MARGUERITE WITTWER
Frank Sinatra will proclaim
the official queen to reign over
the events of the Homecoming
weekend at the University of Cal
ifornia in Berkeley. Twelve wom
en were nominated for the honor
and finalists will he chosen from
this group by the various mili
tary units stationed on the cam
pus. Sinatra, lean-faced radio
swoon-crooner does the picking.
. . . Sigh, period.
EMBARRASSING MOMENTS
During half-time of the game
between Arkansas and Texas, a
pretty coed from Lone Star State
stood up and yelled to a friend
12 rows back, “Wait for me after
the game.” Approximately 100
V-12s waved back and shouted
assent, with pleasure.
And at Laurel lodge the other
night a sleepy UO freshman woke
up, glanced at her watch, “Yipe,
it’s 7:05 already.” She thought
and' woke up the girls in the up
stairs bunks around her. She made
her bed, dashed downstairs to
dress and discovered her room
mate still burning the midnight
oil. “You up already?” she
asked. “NO, I haven’t gone to bed
yet. It’s only 1:30 a.m.” Meekly,
the little freshman turned around,
stumbled upstairs, told the girls
she’d awakened to go back to
sleep and hit the hay ... It is
rumored there is a plot of re
venge and murder at Laurel
lodge!
TEACHERS’ PET
Only one student at Louisiana
State university is majoring in
forestry. Being the only student
in the class is an ideal arrange
ment, commented the prospective
forester, except for the fact, that,
“If he’s gonna ask a question,
he’s gonna ask me.” When stu
dent and teacher go on field
trips opportunities for “goldbrick
ing” are rare and the instructor
said that his only pupil had yet
to bring him an apple.
G-l BEAVERS
Soldiers on the Oregon State
College campus have two columns
entitled “Private Line” and “Dear
Mom” on the army page of the
Barometer. Written by a private
Up From UO
By PEGGY OVERLAND
Even his name sounds interesting, Arno Dosch-Fleurot,
but that is the least exciting part about this newspaperman,
who graduated from Oregon in 1900. Chased from one part 0..
the European continent to the other, his career has been unique
in the memories it has gathered. Wined and dined bythe Ger
mans and Italians, and chased by the Russians, Dosch-Fleurot
has reversed their roles, and is now a prisoner of the Germans
somewhere in France.
Now for a factual biography
of this soldier of adventure. Af
ter graduation he joined the
newspaper staff of the Oregon
ian where one of his first assign
ments was the coverage of the
San Francisco fire. Later he
went to New York as a free-lance
writer and soon after the out
break of World War I, was as
signed to Europe. Later he was
hired by the New York World
to cover the French front. Here
he managed to scoop the rest of
the world on giving the first ac
count of the original British ex
peditionary forces.
“War to Revolution”
It was during this time that
he was chased out of Russia at
gun point and only reached safe
ty by sprinting across the Finnish
border where the Finns inter
ceded on his behalf. It happened
during the Russian revolution in
1917 and resulted in Dosch-Fleu
rot writing a book about the rev
olution—“Through War to Rev
olution.” After the war he re
mained with the New York
World until he became diplomat
ic correspondent of the Associat
ed Press in Paris, and then later
for the International News Ser
first class of Co. D. to the music
of “Stout Hearted Men” is this
version of:
Song of ASTP
Give me some men
Who know physics and chem
And we’ll send them to ASTP.
Men who can speak
In a language like Greek
And we’ll send them to ASTP.
Star-Unit, college.
We’re sent there for knowledge
If slide rules could just win the
war.
vice and Universal Service. In
1940 he returned to the continent
and from there wrote his syndi
cated column, “The Euro]3eah
Background,” which appeared
in the Oregon Journal.
Some of the colorful stories
Dosch-Fleurot has to tell would
include the time he and his
beautiful wife, Aina, were the
guests at a banquet given by
Goering for Hitler. : Becoming
separated from her husband, Mrs.
Dosch-Fleurot wandefed around
hunting for him and accidentally
neared Hitler’s table. As she
passed Hitler looked up .and their
glances met for a moment. A
few minutes later a page ap
proached her with an invitation
from Hitler to join this party;
Mrs. Dosch-Fleurot, embarrassed,
explained she was looking for her
husband and the page returned
with an apology from Hitler say
ing he had mistaken her for some
one else.
Token of Glory
Dosch-Fleurot also has a
ont from Mussolini to remind mu
of the “little Caesar’s” former
glories. Along with other news
men he went with Mussolini to
Libya to celebrate the Italian ac
quisition of that colony. They
lived in tents in the desert, dined
on fish from the Adriatic and
drank iced champagne. After
wards he was presented with a
huge, tooled morocco leatrfr
notebook, containing the full ac
count of the trip printed in Ital
ian.
Other notable details of Dosch
Fleurot's life: he speaks Italian,
Russian, German, and French
fluently; claims the French “Le
gion of Honor”; and can call Wil
liam Shirer, author of "Be* I
Diary,” and the late pianist " >r
president of Poland, Paderewski,
his close friends.
I.
m keep 'em rolling ”
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