Oregon Emeral
MARJORIE M. GOODWIN
EDITOR
ELIZABETH EDMUNDS
BUSINESS MANAGER
MARJORIE YOUNG
Managing Editor
ROSEANX LECKIE
Advertising Manager
ANNE CRAVEN
News Editor
Norris Yates, Joanne Nichols
r Associate Editors
EDITORIAL BOARD
Edith Newton
Shirley Steams, Executive
Shaun McDermott, W’arrei
Army Co-editors
Bob Stiles, Sports Editor
Secretary
Miller
Carol Greening, Hetty Ann Stevens,
( o Women’s Editors
Bill Lindley. Staff Photographer
Carol Cook, Chief Night Editor
Published daily during the college year except bundays, Mondays, and holidays and
final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon.
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice. Eugene, Oregon.
Papon debited,!. . .
"War Production Board Director Donald M. Nelson has
sent the third call for waste paper salvage throughout the na
tion. Not at all similar to coat hanger drives, or the “diluted”
efforts of some campus drives in the past, it would seem that
this campaign to gather material for the nation’s paperboard
•factories could he a valuable campus contribution to the war
effort.
Right now. approximately 20-25 mills arc shut down for
lack of waste paper—and inventories are dangerously low in
many other mills. Living organizations on the campus can
furnish huge quantities of waste paper, TP its collection is
speedy and efficient. This means that the War Board and the
living organizations must take at least one Saturday morning
out of busy schedules to collect, sort, and tie paper bundles.
Then, its mass collection and removal must he arranged quick
ly, since stored paper is a fire hazard.
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Tin: radio and the nation’s newspapers are currently spon
soring this conservation and collection drive. Why in the world
does it make any difference whether or not magazines, paper
sacks and boxes are utilized?
lad's look at the facts as listed by the United States Victory
[Waste Paper Campaign committee. Once we get our fighting
men overseas, it takes SI tons of supplies per month per man
to keep them there, compared to 4.1 tons per month in the last
war. This amount requires huge quantities of containers and
packaging material. Every standard unit of small arms ammuni
tion has its containers. Paperboard targets are used for pistol,
rifle, and machine gun practice. Army field ration ‘‘K" is packed
in folding cartons. Shells arc protected by paperboard until
fired. One hundred pounds of waste paper will make 650 cartons
for field rations, 100 pounds of waste paper will make 115 con
tainers for ten 20mm. shells, 100 pounds of waste paper make
50 75mm. shell containers.
In addition, blood plasma containers, cartridge paper,
camouflage paper, dust and dirt covers and seals for motors,
flare spacers, bomb rings, grenade containers, etc. etc. utilize
the waste paper we can collect here on the campus.
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Tn addition to any collection program which the War
Board may ask Oregon Ducks to fulfill, great service may be
rendered in the conservation of new paper. This means saving
pasteboard boxes if they can be reused, accepting non-wrapped
goods, combining purchases into one sack, and saving “scratch
paper” instead of buying anew.
We can only give a small amount of paper if you count
just one university. Lots of paper if you multiply and multiply
again. Lots of paper, war material contributing to quick dis
tribution of war necessities. Contributing to the safety and
health and comfort of servicemen. M. Af. G.
Come Sleep, Olt Sleep. . .
Skies are sober and the morning has its mouth turned
down ... Trees look like leaden pogo sticks with their feet stuck
in the mud . . . Three minutes until class time, and it takes
seven to get there . . . An assignment is due for the class
following . . . There’s no individuality in the campus scene,
with coeds as much alike in their swinging cadence as soldier
students . .. General Peyton C. March says the war hasn't even
started . . . Rumors that there soon won't be as many men at
Oregon . . . Unmistakable “no breakfast” protestations arise
from your stomach . . . Out of cigarettes, too . . . There's too
much libe work this week, and no time for it . . . Xew year’s
resolutions all shot . . . Xietzche and Spinoza . . . Xietzche
and Spinoza, over and over again. That's what you were going
to read sometime to broaden your horizons, remember? Pretty
soon, mid-terms, then finals . . .
Relax with a vengeance. Hit the sleeping porch. Winter
term is short and takes its toll of stamina and endurance. True,
bull-sessions are most fascinating after midnight, and there's
always another lick to put in on math, but it's done more
The Cutting Room
By BILL BUELL
“Only the strictly unsentimental should be warn
ed against it—for its makers knew what they were
doing and they did it,” writes Commonweal magazine
of “Lassie Come Home.’’
We are strictly unsentimental. The makers of
“Lassie" were making a dog story. We out grew dog
stories about the time we became tired of hunting
for the picture in the bottom of a mush bowl.
But it appears as if this attempt to throw all
normal human values off focus and concentrate the
most powerful emotions of the American public upon
the figure of a big shiny-coated collie is highly suc
cessful. The Mac this Sunday was as filled with sobs
and sighs as if the predominately grade school au
dience had just witnessed an expose of Santa Claus.
Even some of the professional reviewers poured un
diluted praise upon this “epic” saga of dogdom.
The story is as wholesome as a glass of pastuer
ized milk and every bit as exciting. In order to pay
the butcher, the baker, and the man who comes
for the rent young Roddy McDowall’s father sells
Lassie, his great big beautiful collie, to a dog-fancy
ing duke. His Grace promptly packs Lassie off to
Scotland.
Lassie escapes from the kennels and heads south
for Yorkshire and Roddy. Neither storm, nor flood,
nor the local dog catcher can deter this valiant ca
nine from her course. At last she arrives home, thin,
filthy, and limping, to leap joyously into the eager
arms of her young master.
“Lassie Come Home” not only fails to avoid sen
timental pitfalls; it-seeks, finds, and wallows in them.
There are more moist-eyed farewells in this picture
than on the front steps of an army induction center.
Exploited to the fullest possible degree are such tear
jerking potentialities as the death of a dear little
mongrel dog named Toots and the tragedy that a
birthday without Lassie holds for Roddy.
The finest thing in this picture is the technicolor
photograpy of woods, heaths, waterfalls, and rough
rflcky seacoasts. The beauties of natural light and
shade are fully utilized to produce one of the best
works of this kind yet to appear in a cinema feature.
Edmund Gwen, as the itinerate pot-and-pan ped
dler with whom Lassie travels for a while on her
long journey home, provides the best acting of the
show. Even the dog is a better actor than Roddy Mc
Dowall.
efficiently when faculties are keen and rested.A flu wave and
dietetics problems are accentuated by ragged organizing of
time and lack of sleep. This isn’t an advertisement for vitamin
pills, but the realization of a fact which most collegians, non
armv-regulated, ignore. Yes, sleep is part of college life.
B. A. S.
Anvil
Chorus
Hv NORRIS YATES
Spies have informed the Emer
ald office that plans are under
way among a few “campus cats’’
for a small jazz combo reminis
cent of the days of the peerless
Hal “Happy” Hardin outfit.
Sparkplugging the band if it ever
actually exists will probably be
Cliff Mallieoat, “boomer boy” par
excellence, who is as terrific with
a bass as he is with the ladies.
Cliff played with Dick Day,
one of Portland’s top bands, when
he was only 16. He soon acquired
the reputation of being one of the
three best players in the city, as
well as one of its worst wolves—
although the latter fact belongs
out of this column’s province.
Another likely recruit for this
outfit is Jack Howe, who, we
hear, really knows how to tickle
the ivories. Several other music
ians are reported interested. With
Jack and Cliff forming the basis
of a solid rhythm section, the ci
vilian students on the campus
may have a good band once more.
The irrepressible Iturbi crop
ped up again in anecdotal col
umns last week when a certain
movie star, who was giving a lav
ish party, suddenly discover
ed that she wanted a boogie
woogie pianist. She made an ap
peal to the guests, and a dark,
thick-set man stepped forward
and knocked out some of the
hottest licks ever heard this side
of Harlem. After he had finished
and the applause had died down
the star asked her guest his
name. You guessed it—!
Browsing through the wave
bands the other day, we were
pleased to discover that the
chamber music program of the
“New Friends of Music,” which
is broadcast from New York's
Town Hall every Sunday after
noon, now presents its full pro
gram instead of only half as be
fore. How it did used to annoy us
to hear them break off short in
the middle of a number!
Over a year ago we heard that
modernist composer Paul Hinde
mulh was working on a clarinet
concerto for Benny Goodman. Re
cently a rumor has been sneaking
through the music world that he
has nearly finished it. Since Ben
ny’s prowess in the classical field
h is beer, more than provt :h
as a soloist and as a eh.< ter
mnsic artist, we’ll he \vv ng
rather eagerly for Hindeimith's
work.
And speaking of Benny, he off
ers an excellent example of what
serious study from the best teach
ers from time one is very
young may produce. Ben came
from a large and poor family.
His musical talents were discern
ed when he was six or there
abouts, and his father incited
him to learn the clarinet. But in
order to keep up lessons he had
to commence playing jazz in or
dr to pay for them. And as he be
gan to earn more and more money,
his classical progress demanded
better and better teachers!
The result was a kind of music
al “vicious circle”. But the result
seems to have turned out all right.
When Indiana recently met
Wisconsin on the Hoosier grid
iron, two representatives of the
Royal British navy were on hand
to see their first American foot
ball game.
A twenty five dollar United
States war bond is being offered
by Campus Comments, the student
newspaper for the best edi
torial submitted to it suggesting
how Mary Baldwin college girls
can further participate in the
war effort.
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