Oregon
Emerald
MARJORIE M. GOODWIN
EDITOR
ELIZABETH EDMUNDS
BUSINESS MANAGER
MARJORIE YOUNG
Managing Editor
ARLISS BOONE
Advertising Manager
ANNE CRAVEN
News Editor
Norris Yates, Joanne Nichols
Associate Editors
EDITORIAL BOARD
Edith Newton
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 Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and
f aal examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon.
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice. Eugene, Oregon.
Ret Sckaal feelL, P%mi<^
Tlit- turmoil of registration is past for most ot us by now,
thc first <!av of classes is over, and we re lfiore or less un
1 aeked and settled. Christmas gifts have been displayed and
v.'c'll all be back into the familiar routine of college once more.
Now that these preliminaries are past we might snatch
a few minutes to wonder why we go to all this bother and ex
i ense. Why do we go to school when our country is at war?
.Would it not he better to put our hooks on their shelves, to cap
< ur pens, to turn in our library cards, to blow out the flame
i hat burns from the midnight oil? Would it not he better to
put away our education with a “do not open until victory ’
ibel on it? Would il not he better to get jobs in war plants
(,r in Washington or to join some branch of the service? This
ia war for working and fighting, not for sitting around and
tudying. Shouldn’t we be taking an active part in winning the
. ar? Why do we attend a university in such times as these?
Thc.->e arc familiar phrases, worn and tired from lrequent
use. They arc the words we utter often—when we are tired,
v hen we have lost sleep, when we are behind in our work,
when we don’t pet the grade we think we should have had,
when things don’t go just right and the world looks dismal.
'I hen, when our morale is down (in pre-war parlance, when
we’re in a had mood), we drag out the old “oh. what s the use
of all this, anyway” speech, polish it up a hit, and deliver it
to whatever bored audience we can force to listen.
That old master of persuasion, A. Hitler, once said that
even the boldest of lies, if uttered often enough, wilt he be
lieved. And that’s what has happened to the "education in
wartime is unnecessary, foolish, and wrong argument. 1 hitler
himself has proved the fallacy of this argument by the recent
arrest of between 1200 and 1500 Oslo university students
and of almost all the university’s faculty. 'Those arrested are
to he sent to a concentration camp in Germany. The Nor
wegion Gestapo Chic!, Wilhelm Redies, stated that the stu
dents were arrested “to protect the interests of the occupying
power and to secure law and order in the country. During
the whole occupation, students of Oslo university have formed
a resistance group which has conducted propaganda and illegal
activities against Germane and the Norwegian state. ’ All over
Europe, educational institutions are the centers of resistance
against Nazi domination.
Education is not futile, foolish, and unnecessary. Tt is
a ital to the future of this nation and the world. The leaders of
Germain and Japan know how important education is, and
Jiow dangerous an obstacle it is to the successful achievement
of their aims. That is why they attempt to eliminate it. And
education in wartime is even more essential, because its im
portance is more evident.
\Ve cannot afford to wait until after victory for our edu
cation. We must educate ourselves now for victory.
—J. X.
Arthur Pratt Fund
< ('outiuiu'it from fam' thirh'cn )
i oeeive scholarships must do their
graduate study on the Univers
ity of Oregon campus or any
nrapus affiliated with the Uni
ersity.
foster describes I’rutt as a
nsiness man and financier of
■ loverly Hil.s, California whose
osistanee made his start in the
.» iltling liusii ess in l!f!8 possilile.
)r. Barnett Leaves
(Cool it: or! I’rm patic our)
he foreign an t and language di
vision at the University of Cali
tormula. lie ha < carried on an ex
tensive re ■ as h program among
the Indians i>f the West (V
British Columbia, and
tr.d spent one summer o>
Yakima i a.ian reservati
der tilt' sponsorship of the North
vest Regional council.
Enthusiasm for his classes was
indicated by an increase in en
rolment this year despite the de
i rease in student enrolment at
the University.
Dramatists Decide
(Continued from (one one)
of a formal dress rehearsal for
the visiting Dads during Dad's
W eekend. The performances will
possibly begin the following week.
Margie Robinson, senior in
journalism, will assist Mr. Rob
inson in directing the play. Miss
Robinson appeared last year as
the mother in "The Eve of Saint
Mark” and has been active in
University drama.
Supporting roles will be east
next Tuesday evening.
‘You Cannot Be Dead-9 _
A new custom has been inaugurated at the
University of Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. George
Giustina and family have donated $10,000 to the
student fund in memory of their late son-in-law,
Major Tom Taylor, ex-1940, wh was killed in ac
tion while flying with the United States air force
over western Europe.
A grant of money is a pleasant thing at any
time. But the realization that it was occasioned
by the heroic death of a former Oregon student
should temper our pleasure with solemnity at the
same time that it deepens our gratification. The
man who has gone out and died with no thoughts
of gifts or money or memorial on his mind has
indirectly presented his University with a worth
while gift which will be used for a - worthwhile
purpose, and also fixed his memory firmly in our
hearts. This, we hope, may be some slight re
compense for his having given his life for his
country.
The Tom Taylor gift also means that a pre
cedent has been set for an increase of gifts to the
student union -gifts that come from the heart,
with no taint of ego-feeding or profit hopes—gifts
that arise from a genuine desire to ally grief by
doing good for something which the deceased
would have wished. This presentation was but the
first. Others are bound to follow. The student
union plan has progressed beyond the “promise”
stage to that of actual contx-ibution of funds.
Moreover,' the Tom Taylor gift should provide
ample endorsement of the project for the benefit of
those who might wonder if a student union was
really such a beneficial thing as it has been play
ed up to be. These skeptics know that grieving
families do not make memorial donations to un
worthy projects.
Finally, the University and its students owe a
vote of the deepest thanks to the Giustina family.
They themselves can never hope to benefit one iota
from the gift they have given. It is pure altruism
on their part, except for that warm and kindly
feeling of having done a good deed out of sincere
and untainted desire to profit. We cannot but
pity the Giustinas, but we rejoice when we see
how, instead of being conquered by their suffer
ing, they have ennobled it and themselves by turn
ing it into an excuse for doing good. It isn t as if
they had not already done enough for their coun
try," or gaiven their all when their son-in-law
crashed to his death. No, this couple felt that they
could give still more.
And let no one say that aiding a worthy stu
dent program such as the union project does not
constitute helping the country. “The hope of the
country lies in its college youth” has been sa:^,
again and again. And student activities and social
affairs such as those facilitated by a; student union
form a part of college education almost as vital
as that part taught in the classroom. In the lecture
halls we make the acquaintance of knowledge.
Outside them we learn about life. One is not of
much use without the other, but life could cer
tainly get along without knowledge if it had to,
whereas knowledge wouldn’t be of much use with
out a basic understanding of how to live one’s life
in accordance with accepted standards. In the
making of q country and in the defending and
preserving of it as well -men and women with
knowledge are urgently needed, but if that country
is to be worth preserving, it must be run and
populated chiefly by people who know life as well.
The generous Giustina family are of the latter
type. They have grasped the secret that Hitler and
his pals have never learned and never will lea™i^T
that you cannot be dead in soul and still lead a
people Successfully, though you have at your com
mand all the knowledge in the world.—N. Y.
It is the fashion nowadays to choose a "Man of the \ ear .
Our choice is Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill.
Churchill was the fruit of one of the first international
marriages. 11 is mother was the beautiful J ennie Jerome of Ne w
His maternal grandfather was a part owner of the New York
Tinles.
Winstons father, Lord Randolph Churchill, had a brief
but brilliant career in British politics. He had reached his
high point, having become leader of the commons and chan
celor of the exchequer, when, after a biter dispute with Lord
fcsansnury, men premier, ne re
turned his seals of office to the
“Widow” and retired to the op
position benches of Parliament,
in cooperation with Dille he or
ganized what was known as the
“fourth party,” but his career
was suddenly interrupted by
death.
His son, Winston, was born in
3S74 at Blenheim palace, Oxford
shire, the seat of his grand
father, the Duke of Marlborough.
Blenheim palace had been the gift
of the nation to the great Duke
as a result of his victories over
the armies of the “Sun King,”
Louis IV of France. His wife,
the Duchess Sarah, fought many
a battle of wits with Van Brugh,
the spicy playwright of his day
day who was the architect of the
Palladian pile. The castle is built
on so grand a scale that Kaiser
Wilhelm, upon visiting it, is re
ported to have said, “In Germany
no private citizen would own it.’’
Winston was educated at Har
row, hut flunked his entrance ex
ams for entrance into Cambridge.
His main stumbling block was
mathematics—army men take
notice, lie was so poor at figures
that he was drilled endlessly in
English as a means of balancing
his grades. The result —we have
in him today the greatest living
master of English prose.
Churchill entered a Hussar
regiment after attending Sand
hurst. the “West Point of Brit
ain.” He was stationed in India,
where for a time he lead the life
of a typical "pukka sahib” play
ing polo, “pigsticking” and
drinking gin and bitters.
After a period of this service, he
was attached to the Spanish
army of “Butcher” Weyler, who
was engaged in ruthlessly put
ting down the then current Cuban
rebellion. From Cuba Churchill,
through family influence, was al
lowed to proceed to Egypt and
join Lord Kitchener’s army in its
ending of the Khalifa's occupation
of the Sudan. Churchill’s third
book, “The River War,” is a defin
itive account of this campaign.
The Boer War was to estab
lish the beginning of the reputa
tions of the two leading states
men of the British Empire—
Churchill and Jan Christiaan
Smuts. One was born in ducal
Blenheim—the other in a humble
Afrikander cottage in the West
Cape Colony.
Churchill wrangled the job of
war correspondent in South Af
rica from that now defunct die
hard Tory publication, the “Morn
ing Post.’’ He was captured event
ually by a Boer commando party,
commanded, strangely enough, by
Smuts himself. Churchill accom
plished a daring escape and on
the publicity of it stood for Par
liament on the Tory ticket. The
i
war hysteria catapulted him into
office.
While he was in office Joe
Chamberlain's influence caused
tiie Tories to declare themselves
in favor of the abolition of free
trade. Amid the howls of his erst
while comrades, Churchill rose
and crossed the aisle in protest,
seating himself in the ranks of the
opposition.
His rise in the Liberal party was
little short of meteoric. He '• • *
came in rapid succession home
secretary, and first lord of the
admiralty.
Then as now he was alive to the
menace of German militarism.
While Britain occupied itself
with bitter disputes over the
House of Lords’ veto power,
Churchill, along with Fisher, his
assistant, quietly went ahead with
modernizing and enlarging the
“senior service.”
In July of 1914 the British navy
was on a war footing, in stark
contrast to the unprepared army.
When war came the wisdom oL
Churchill's plans was made pin il
ly e\ ident. Encouraged by hi >
early successes, the future prime
minister attempted to end the war
by means of his brain-child, the
ill-fated Dardanelles campaign.
This expedition to the Gallipoli
peninsula was right in theory but
so poorly executed by a divided
command that it had to be giv
up. This failure led to Churchill's
being dropped from the cabinet.
It has been called his “one big"
mistake,” and as a result of i,
many years were to elapse befo ■
he finally took office to bring his
country through its most crucial
test of ail.
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