MARJORIE 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 Steanrs, Executive Secretary
Shaun McDermott, Warren Miller
Army Co-editors
Dob Stiles, Sports Editor
Carol Greening:, Betty Ann Stevens,
Co-Women’s Editors
Hill Bindley, Staff Photographer
Carol Cook, Chief Night 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.
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The service scholarship fund has won tire attention and
the commendation of the United States treasury department.
In a personal letter to the Emerald, Daniel Melcher, acting
director of the education section of the war finance division
of the treasury department wrote that he had read a story
about the service scholarship fund in the November 23 Emerald
and that the education section was “eager to have more infor
mation about the (war bond) Drive at the University of
Oregon.”
Oregon’s alumni servicemen will find an educational op
portunity awaiting them when they return from the battle
fronts, bases and camps to resume their temporarily-postponed
college careers. They will learn that both the University and
the United States congress have been planning for their return,
and that the continuance of their interrupted education will be
encouraged and facilitated by the plans these two institutions
have been working out.
After the war, several million veterans will come home.
Many of them will go back to work at their old jobs or at new
ones, but a great many will want to enter college or to return
to it. It is for the benefit of these education-minded ex-service
men and women that the University of Oregon has established
a service scholarship fund and that congress now has under
consideration an act to provide a government-financed educa
tion.
The University’s service scholarship plan was begun last
year. Bonds subscribed by campus living organizations and
Co-op receipts contributed by student purchasers built up a
fund amounting to $1,198.78. This year’s returns have not been
computed, but the work has been carried on.
The national program is less well-organized than the
University's. Regretably, the achievement of its worthwhile
purpose is being hindered by the opposite-pole ideas of various
lobbying groups, some of whom want the plan supervised by
the veterans administration and some of whom favor the office
of education. Some kind of compromise plan will probably be
worked out so that, no matter who may be chosen to administer
the program, the servicemen and women will be enabled to go
to school under it.
If the congressional plan is not passed, the service scholar
ship fund will help Oregon alumni. If the congressional plan
is passed, the University’s accumulated funds will be turned
over to the student union fund, where they will still benefit
the returning servicemen. In either case, the words of William
Tugman, managing editor of the Eugene Register-Guard, used
to describe Eugene’s postwar program will apply: “Oregon will
take care of her own.” That goes for the University, too.
I • •
Statf Aj^cUn.
Every since last fall there has been a continuous murmur
of voices on the campus asking for a stag dance. Soldier students
have expressed their belief that this would be a good way to
get acquainted with civilian students. Open house at individual
houses, and mixers have been tried, but still not all students
have participated.
Now the real thing is happening in the Canteen dance Sat
urday night in Gcrlinger hall, a real no-date affair. Of course,
there is no ban on dates for the dance, but neither is there any
reason for either coeds or fellows to retrain from coming stag.
There has been much written, spoken, and thought about
soldier civilian relations on the campus, and to all appearances
the question of this relationship has definitely settled itself in
the best possible manner—the fellows and girls are learning
what each other arc like, and to understand and appreciate each
other.
Earlier in the school year there were misunderstandings,
there were adjustments that had to be made. But the problems
have been met, the adjustments have been made, and campus
social life has functioned smoothly.
Now a crucial test of the smooth functioning faces the
ampus. The question is if the fellows and girls will meet each
.other half way by coming to a stag affair and meeting each
Clips and
Comments
By MARGUERITE WITTWER
(and Various ASTU’s)
(Note—The following five items
were clipped from that notable
achievement of journalistic en
deavor known as the Oregon
Daily Emerald (I get paid for
this) by a GI from Company
C and the comments attached are
the opinions of same, namely,
Ralph Holzwarth, and not nec
essarily the opinion of this paper
or of the usual writer of this
column . . . end note.)
“All candidates for the ‘Bonds
Away’ girl should meet at the
Alpha Gamma Delta house today
at 5 p. m. to have their pictures
taken. Short silks should be worn.”
. . . Make that ‘silk shorts should
be worn’ and we are sure they
could sell more bonds that way. ..
“Emphasis will be placed on pa
per for the scrap drive this week.
Florence Hintzen and Bibbitts
Strong, co-chairmen of the salv
age committee, announced this
drive would be the biggest yet.”
. . . Colonel Annie will be pleased
to hear about this!
“Entered as second class mat
ter at the postoffice, Eugene, Ore
gon.” . . . We wouldn’t brag about
that.
“Fall Term House Grades:
ahem: GPA - 2.230; Rank: 23,
Womens Organization: (censor
ed), etc., etc.” . . . oh, well, things
are bad all over.
“(Advertisement) Rex theater.
Starts today: ‘All Through the
Night’ with Humphrey Bogart,
also ‘Twin Beds’ starring George
Brent and Joan Bennett” . . .
Sounds like a good combination.
“In past years students have
paid high prices to see, hear, and
dance to Tommy Dorsey, Art Hol
man, Bob Crosby, and Kay Kyser.
This year Owen Bailey offers
hotlicks beat out by a gathering
of players which includes former
members of a number of name
bands.” . . . Who are these guys,
Dorsey, Crosby, and Kyser, any
way?
“Most batty but beautiful” will
be the title of the man elected as
such at the all-university leap
year dance to be held soon at
Northwestern. Women will drag
their hand-picked dates to thia af
fair . . . and somehow we view
with growing apprehension this
idea of going out to get your man
(Please turn to page three)
Frosh Coed Hails fn
Switzerland-New Jcrney
By ELIZABETH HAUGEN |
Caug'ht in a rare moment of relaxation, prepjfrmg to write
her weekly Emerald column, Clips and Comifltits, ‘‘Little
Beaver”, who is registered as Marguerite Witt^per, freshman
in journalism, admitted to being born in Switzerland.
It seems that no one in her family has ever Sped to settle
in one spot for long, which accounts for their be«% in Europe
just about 18 years ago. They stayed there till JSjfeis Wittwer
was four years old, when they came back to Moi^pstown, New
Jersey. Marguerite still has some o’ “de Joisey llteang" in her
speech, although she has lived in Eugene for three fears.
“When I was m the tilth grade,
mother and I went hack to Swit
zerland. We visited Paris, Bern,
and I went to school in the Alps
for a winter, but their work was
about the same as the seventh
grade here, and I was the dumb
est one in the class,’ she recalled.
“Oh, sure, I speak Swiss and
I've taken a term of German here,
too,” she casually remarked, toss
ing off a few gutteral idioms.
Both in Morristown high and
Eugene high, she held editorial
positions on the school paper, and
played in the school hand . . . “so
I could go to all the football games
for nothin’ ”... was in the A
Capella choir and Girls League.
After graduation from high
school last June, she moved again,
with her family, to Richmond,
California—“across the bay from
San Francisco—that’s what I al
ways tell people, because no one
knows where Richmond is.”
There she worked in the Person
nel Research department for
Kaiser.
“With the FBI,” she claimed.
“All I did was pull cards out of
a file and hand them to the spe
cial investigators, but ‘with the
FBI’ sounds good, anyway.”
In high school she took a course
in Airplane Sheet Metal and Riv
eting. She spent a lot of time at
the shipyards wandering around
the troopships, peeking over the
top of her bright white, size 40
overalls.
Miss Wittwer is a reet size 32,
five-foot-two, with blue-gray eyes,
and sandy-brown hair.
“The most fun I had in Calfor
nia was the time I got arrested,”
she chirped. “I went on a 50-mile
bicycle hike by myself and cross
ed the Bay bridge, which is
against the law. A motorcycle cop
caught me, sent for the patrol
wagon, loaded my bike and me in
(Please turn to page three)
other there for an evening of dancing and entertainment.
The Independent Student’s association has planned a
dance to follow the basketball game that should be fun with
Owen Bailey’s orchestra for the best in music and specially
planned mixers to insure everyone of meeting plenty of people.
The ISA dance committee has done its part so it is left
squarely up to the students to show their spirit of cooperation
by being willing to come stag to an affair that shows all the
signs of being fun for everyone. E. A. M.
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The Car You
Have Now ...
Must Last for the
Duration
Can you imagine Amer
ica without any automo
biles ? It would be a badly
handicapped nation . • .
and your car is an essen
tial part of our transpor
tation on the home front
during war times. It
must be kept rolling.
That is our job. Drive it
in now for a mid-winter
check-up to avoid break
downs.
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