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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1944)
tr.;ill!lllllltt1lltlltl!lin!!l!l!ll!!l MARJOKIIi M. GOODWIN EDITOR ELIZABETH EDMUNDS BUSINESS MANAGER MARJORIE YOUNG Managing Editor ROSEANN LECKIE Advertising Manager ANNE CRAVEN News Editor Norris Yates, Joanne Nichols Associate Editors EDITORIAL BOARD Edith Newton Shirley Stearns, Executive Secretary Shaun 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 an. final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice. Eugene, Oregon.__ Ad. the fyamiltf. Qo&i. . . "With the great majority of the University’s social cus toms, traditions, and annual events gone by the board because of the war, it is significant to note that Dad’s day is scheduled as usual this year, complete with its usual luncheon and festiv ities. From this fact we may draw quite a pleasing picture of the permanency of family life in America. In other countries, notably in Germany and England, this solidarity does not exist. Therein lies the heartening feature of Dad’s day. The unity or disunity of the family is a pretty good indication of the solidity of the nation. More, it is a yard stick by which a people’s morals, education, and general con tentment can he measured, since these things are all rooted in the family. If we don’t learn how to get along with our fellow beings while still within the bosom of the family, where shall we learn it? But in Germany the family has been destroyed as the core of society. The state has tried to take over, with what disastrous results to both it and the individual we have seen and shall yet see. In England the pressure of war has caused thousands, mil lions, of homes to be split up by evacuation. Broken families and tearful parents do not build or maintain a good nation. Even in America the closeness of the family structure has been weakened, not so much by war as by the increasingly brisk and diverse routine of life in a modern industrial age. But the war seems to have driven the members of the typical Ameri can family closer together. ‘Absence makes the heart grow fonder” is trite saying, but far from being an untrue one, as many an anxious, loving mother and worried father will testify. Moreover, the warming of family friendships and the ce menting of the family ties with the boy overseas helps to make those who remain at home much more alive to their own luck. jWlio can tell how discordant couples have been brought to gether again by the mere strain and suspense of having a son overseas? How many “wild” sisters, wayward younger broth ers—how many broods of small children, neglected while both mother and father are off doing war work have received better and more care after that first letter arrived announcing that Big Brother was now overseas? j\Ve do not know how many. Nor have we any way of knowing. We do know, however, that as long as this war looms like an ugly shadow over our peaceful lives, the American fam ily will stand firm and close-knit. And we also know that as long as the family does stand close-knit, neither Heaven nor Earth nor Hell can shake us. Well may we say: “As the family goes; so goes the nation.” N. Y. i Hi Hi JUi?... They called it Hitler’s Kurope !! Yes, a few weeks ago two of the foremost news analysts of the United States opened their daily broadcast with. “The R.A.F. roared over Hitler's Knrope again last night to drop some 800 tons of bombs and return without a loss.” Hitler’s Kurope, indeed!! A Kurope almost entirely en gulfed by a power-mad Germany. A Kurope tilled with the sweat of slave labor, the agony of tortured Jews, the moans of dving Serbs, the cries of start ing Greeks, the bodies of countless Holes, the thousands of inpnsoned Frenchmen, the smouldering hate of betrayed Norwegians, and the embers of fire-gutted cities—Warsaw, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Stalingrad and Naples. A Kurope of swayed but far from broken countries— but never HITKKR'S Kl’ROPK!! * * * * There's Austria, Bulgaria, Roumania, and Hungry—all German satellites on the outside, but befuddled and wondering on the inside ; there’s Boland !! Boland, 1-7 of whose population has been wiped out by murder and starvation, Poland with ev erv living Pole a constant threat to Nazidom; and Norway, be trayed, down but not defeated, openly defiant to German op pression; there's Belgium, quiet, seemingly dormant, but a The Cutting Room By BILL' BUELL “Government Girl,” is a rough and tumble comedy of war confused Washington. It also contains a rather feeble cheer for FDR’s “win the war” administration. Olivia de Havilland, the gov ernment girl, looks delicious enough to trade in a two months’ supply of red stamps for. She spends most .of her time in such charming activities as crawling around on her luscious stomach beneath the furniture in a crowd ed hotel lobby, running frantical ly down the corridors of a Wash ington office building in her stock ing feet, wildly waving a shoe in each hand, and getting so crocked on champagne that she falls over the back of the sofa she is stand ing on. Sonny Tufts, the government girl’s boss, is a big anil forceful, but shy anil awkward Detroit production man who comes to Washington to build bombers. Door Mr. Tufts is exasperated by red tape and completely baffled by that mysterious and all-pow erful force referred to as “PI” (Political Influence.) At Wash ington social functions he is about as polished as a well-trained chim panzee. But he is determined to build bombers. So he just goes right ahead and builds them. Little technical irregularities like swip ing a trainload of steel belonging to the navy don’t bother him a bit. This industrial giant takes time out from his flurry of production to fall violently in love with Miss de Havilland. He expresses passion by secretly reading a book en titled “How To Be Happily Mar ried” and by standing on his head in his private office. (Miss tie Havilland also falls in love with Mr. Tufts.) Tuft’s determination to build a record number of bombers no matter what influential toes he might happen to tread on in the process finally lands him in the vivisectional clutches of a Senate investigation committee. But gov ernment girl de Havilland saves the day by bursting into the com mittee room in a fine flare of heroics and delivering an inspired but conventional oration on how Tuft's production is winning the war. Other dramatic highlights in clude Miss de Havilland’s unsuc cessful attempt to smuggle a ser geant into a girl’s rooming house. Jleit&ii. to the &&it&i United States Naval Flight Preparatory School Monmorith, Illinois Dear Shack Hats— This project has been hanging fire some time, but it took a day’s Christmas vacation and the pros pect of a little free time to put the thing into operation. College is wonderful, the way it is at Oregon. There are two ways of doing things, so the story pass ing about the base says, the right way and the Navy way! No doubt you have an idea which way we follow. This “Navy Way’’ doesn’t resemble the “Oregon way” in the least. The first difference is the habit of arising. It corresponds to the journalist’s bedtime, 0545. Anoth er is the 7:30 classes, try figuring out radio bearings and relative movement in the middle of the night. Don’t ask what the above are, I’m not sure. At 5:30 p. m. we are through ^classes but, not unlike Oregon, by that time the professors have taken their toll of free time which we are supposed to have. So we study after chow. This goes on till taps at 9:45 and there lies the other great difference between the Navy and Oregon— No sleeping porch bull-sessions. In the first place, we have no sleeping porches and in the second place you just don’t talk after taps, it says in cadet regs. Monmouth is a town. That is about all one can say for it. The founders were very inconsiderate, \they built it over 50 miles from Chicago which puts that town out of bounds for the weekends. Yes, weekends, there too is an other difference from Oregon. Our liberty starts at 5:30 Satur day afternoon—we have classes until then—when we can, unless restricted, we get overnight lib erty within the 50 mile zone. Quite the tales come from the towns in the zone. Illinois is a damp state, but it .doesn't rain here. Sure miss the rain. Oregon men are rather scarce here. "Scotty’ Mindolo vich, from the "House of Char acters”, is now at Kemville, Texas, Ken Luckey, a Chi Psi, is now at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, both at the W. T. S. schools. Mark Pond, the Fiji sports writer, is here now having been transferred from Pas co December 1st. There are sev eral others here too but I didn’t know them and can’t remember their names just now. If all goes well I’ll be leaving here soon. To where I have not the slightest idea. Men who have left ■the last two months are scatter ed from Chicago west. Here’s hop ing this kid gets sent WEST a helluva long way. Have a lot of studying to do and what’s more I’m going to do it— another difference—so must sign 'of for now. i Good luck to all and a happy new year. Looks like we'll be in )>ed at 9:45 New Year’s eve and in class at 7:30 New Year’s day, but that's life! That’s thirty for now— TED BUSH smouldering hazard to the super-race nevertheless; there’s Czechsolvakia, betrayed by a modern Judas and the home of de stroyed Lidice and of a flaming hatred toward the fuzzy-lipped paper-hanger and his crew; there's l-'rance. Divided by the traitor Laval, sold to slavery for a promise of power, a symbol of broken treaties Frenchmen await the day of revenge; there’s Holland, in which the memories of bombed open cities remain embedded in vengeful minds; there’s Yugoslavia, home of two underground armies who keep 500.000 German troops from other fronts; and Denmark, stripped of food and clothing, another threat to the new order. And most of all there’s Germany, a virtual time-bomb of unrest and sabotage, billed with growing home distrust and constant underground activity in occupied countries, the prob ability of losing the war is creeping into the minds of the mad man's crew. And the; ” 1 it Hitler's Europe!! —-ERVIN WEBB W:' In Futures Past In futures past beyond a hill Whence comes the bugle long and shrill, Whence comes the tramp of marching tread Of homeward steps in peace, not dread Beyond that hill where millions march Abreast the reviewing stand of time There comes a swift, unnoticed guest— A spirit blanketing from above The spirit of a better race, A race of men of toleranc.^^ A really truly human race. In futures past when children rise from trundle beds And people walk through crowded streets That spirit always follow will And life will be a mixture strange, A mixture that is bright and dull A mixture that is life at full. 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