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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1944)
Clips and Comments By MARGUERITE WITTWER A bit on the serious side now, comes this psalm adapted from similar petitions originated by the coeds at New Jersey State College for Women. Mr. I’rice is my teacher; I shall not pass. He maketh me to lose sleep in great quantities; he con fuseth my soul. He Ieadeth me into paths of wicked experiments for my grades’ sake. Yeah, though I sweat and toil ’till 4:57, I shall still fear. His C’s and his D's, they do not comfort me. In class he Ieadeth me to wrong conclusions in the presence of mine classmates. He annointeth my quizzes with zeroes, my work runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall catch up with me one of these days or I shall dwell in a Freshman elementary journalism class forever. Amen. At the senior ball we were watching a trio of Co B “wolf men” waiting for their dates. Sud denly they caught sight of a tall glamma-gal, wearing a spangled green dress, plenty of silver se quins in her blonde hair, a fur jacket, and a big hunk of ice on her fingers, with more glittering in a bracelet. The boys eyed her carefully and one of them remark ed blandly, “I thought they were n’t making any new Buicks this year.” Texas Christian university is staging a carnival and the coed in charge of sideshows remarked that, “despite all the freaks I see running around the campus, no one seems to be eager to cap italize on his oddity . .. We simply must have some kids with rub ber stomachs, six toes per foot, or two heads per neck around here somewhere.” . . . What is their 1 rouble down there ? Civilian classes arc' at a stand still and all military personnel has been restricted to the campus at the University of Minnesota duo to a general walkout of employees. Both academic and civil service personnel are striking for wage in creases and wage equalization for male and female workers. A few students started to trudge off to classes but were stopped by lines of pickets. No civilian employees reported for work and Navy men stationed on the campus took over the build ings. Sailors took a hand and helped prepare their own meals. The university hospital was crit ically affected by the strike. About 15 army patients who were able to be moved from the health service were taken to the nearest army fort. Navy personnel is tak ing care of the navy patients, but as many civilians as possible are being discharged from the hos pital. From Tender Topics, weekly publication of the I'SS Clian deleur, seaplane tender, conies this choice item of information. Ship storekeepers are exceeding ly versatile and come from all walks of life. Proof of this fact was brought out in a recent sur vey of special qualifications, listed among the talents submit ted by the storekeepers were muskrat trapping and bootlegging . . . No thanks, .just looking. Upperclassmen chose good mor als second only to a good family in a survey among the coeds at Iowa State as to what were the most desirable qualities a girl could possess. The dean of women discovered that freshmen placed good morals fourteenth on the list . . . Draw your own conclu sions. One of the sorority houses in Texas has the following rule for pledges and members, “liirls will wear BOTH stockings when en tertaining gentlemen, except on Sundays and holidays.” . . . Shoes too ? Oregon 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 Stearns, Executive Secretary Shaun McDermott, Warren Miller Army Co-editors Bob Stiles, Sports Editor Carol Greening, Betty Ann Stevens, Co-Women’s Editors Mary Jo Geiser, Staff Photographer Carol Cook, Chief Night Editor Elizabeth Haugen, Assistant Managing Editor Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and 6nal examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. QUr tAeneltlif'.. . Monday night’s Oregon Daily Journal deplored the hack neyed and meaningless phrases of government documents, of ficial reports, and war communiques in an editorial entitled “Our Brow-Beaten Wartime Words.” Such words the Journal writer calls “official slang,” invented “to make communications sound, oh, so official and important.” On its list of worn-out words the Journal places: “all-out, over all, backlog, directive, postwar, wishful thinking, doing a job, stock pile, hush-hush, the duration, free enterprise, racial minorities, Shangri-la, channeled, rehabilitation, ceiling, frozen goods, inflationary trend ...” and so on and on, for such a list can have no end. Washington Irving wrote a story once about a broom which was given a pumpkin head, brought to life, and named “Feathertop” by the witch Mother Ribgy. Dressed in fancy clothes and equipped with a stock of fine phrases, Feathertop managed very well in society, for he knew all the proper com pliments and polite terms. To describe him in the language of the cliche, he knew the right word on the right occasion. The Univeivsity of Oregon campus has its “official slang” too. Our slang is made up of words which, although they may have once had a dictionary meaning, are now only a series of syllables strung together on a thread of conversation. Campus slang is made of Feathertop phrases and has as little genuine meaning as the magician’s “abracadabra” or the nonsense words of a popular song. If you doubt this, try to define “Oh, honestly.” Like the Oregon Journal, we have made up a list of words and phrases which should be removed forever from our vo cabularies. Our list, like the Journal’s, is only partial: get or ganized, no lie, that shows me plenty, super, how ’bout that, simply adorable, I just can't stand it, kid, eager, honey, shot cookie, marvelous, short silks are in order, adjusted to college life, that gripes me, awfully cute, just darling, freshman orienta tion, plug, activity girl, deal, wonderful, oh, honestly, I mean really. Maybe we're just not adjusted to college life, but it cer tainly gripes us, no lie. AVe just can't stand it, even if some people do think it's just darling. AVc can't see it at all. It doesn't show us a thing. Oh, honestly! 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At the time being, I am liv ing with Lieutenant Howard Girdlestone, '43, and daily, he receives your paper. In the past few issues, this Rodney has rated quite a bit of space containing some very humor ous remarks (???). I think it is fine that your military unit has a pet; it is good for morale and all of that but, may I make a suggestion ? Either name that boneeater Rover, Fido, or something like that, or leave out all articles concerning him when you send “Stone” his pa per. It makes a fellow feel aw ful stupid to see one of those articles posted, knowing that all your friends know only one Rodney, and that’s you. Look, I don’t know any good attorneys so I’m willing to for give anything published so far, but you can’t imagine how good it would make me feel to read an article about “Browser” creating a disturbance. Forgivingly yours, RODNEY B. HIGGINS Second Lieutenant United States Marine Corps P. S. It's really not a bad paper at all. J Up From UO By Peggy Overland Vivian Kellems, ’18, has always been in the public eye; cither for being nominated one of the best dressed women of the nation, or for competing with Mrs. Clara Boothe Luce in the political field. However, her latest interesting action is her recent defiance of the United States government on the question of the December 15 in come tax. The outcome of this spectacular move and her even more daring call to industry to follow her ex ample, has not yet been decided. But whatever the results, Miss Kellems, has once again forged ahead of others and sot the pace where she believed she was right. economics were Vivian Kel main interest when she was attending the University hack be fore World War I, and when she received her 1$.A. in 1918 she did not allow her interest to perisli during the hectic post-war years. She continued tier studies and se cured her master’s degree in 1921. The business which brings her in an annual income of more than $50,000, is based upon the produc tion of a cylindrical contraption whose grip becomes stronger ac cording to the weight of the ob ject being held. Although it was her brother Edgar Kellems who in vented the Kellem grip more than 12 years ago, it was through Miss Kellems’ promotion that it be came of industrial use. She had just been granted her Ph.D. from Columbia university, and seeing commercial possibilities in the in vention persuaded her brother to have it patented. Since then her story has been more along the line of that of Clare Booth Luce. The Kellems’ grips have threaded more than 1,000.000 feet of cable through electric conduits in the wiring of the Chrysler building, held high tension. wires in the construction of Boulder dam, and held cables that ran to the top of the Empire State building. Miss Kellems, herself, has re ceived as many honors as her fab ulous cable. She was recently se lected one of the ten best-dressed women of the I'nited States; in I!)4() she was chosen by the busi ness and professional women of the Soroptimist clubs of New York as the outstanding- woman in industry; and is one of the three women members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Whether Vivian Kellems has mined this brililant career by the recent stand which she has taken on the tax question has not been decided yet. Secretary of the Treasury Henry P. Morgenthau in speaking of her said that he considered her plea to industry a matter of disloyalty to the gov ernment, and Senator Coffee de manded that she be investigated by the government. Miss Kellems has as yet been undaunted by these reactions, and her determination will probably prove as tenacious as her famous grips. A significant collection of his torical legal and economic ma terial on the republics of Colum bia and Venezuela has just been acquired on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. 1 Roar, the new army newspaper there. He claims he’s the “only Oregon man at Princeton.” Lt. Everett J. Dickerman, of the Navy air corps, ‘44, was re cently home on leave here in Eu gene. He received his commission at Corpus Christi, Texas, in Octo ber and has since specialized in piloting navy dive bombers at Jacksonville, Florida. His next base will be Cherry Point, North Carolina. Glen Kelly is now a midshlp man at Columbia university. He says a lot of the “old boys” from Parkville, Missouri, have been transferred ihere. We’ll get that report later. Hirschel Smith, naval air corps cadet, is now back at Worcester, Massachusetts. He says “You don’t know how much you can miss Oregon ’til you get away from it.” Wedding bells are ringing in a big way at tjhe naval med school in Portland next month. Beta Bob Jackson will marry Gamma Phi Dorothy Giese March 26, and Beta Bill Snell will also take the final step with Mary Lee Fry, Kappa, March 24. Corporal Puke Elder, Sigma Chi, is now at Camp Landing, Florida. He iis training new i’fi cruits there. ' Lt. Howard Girdlestone, Kappa Sig, a navigator i;i the marine air corps, was just recently up here visiting Lorraine Davidson. First Lt. Fred Stickels, ’42, is still in India; with the infantry. He's been there over a year. Pvt. Neil Regan is now station ed at Camp Wolter, Texas, in the medical corps. Neil had a rough time in New York on his two week furlough. Sgt. Harry Prongas, in the 347th boat company at Ft. Ham ilton, New York says recently in a letter, “I am in a boat company now and upon completion of our training we are to leave for the Pacific. Our job will consist of transporting troops and supplies from one island to another. I like the work very much and am look ing forward to it with zeal.” Sounds interesting, doesn’t it! Pvt. Bill Stratton, onetime sports writer on the Emerald, is now stationed somewhere in Eng land. He’s an M.P. in the air corps. Order your programs for thai once-a-term House Dance Order early so that you will be sure to have them ou time. Valley Printing & Stationery Co. 76 W. Broadway l
