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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! J, N.
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MEET A BUtmY-\
By GLORIA MALLOY
From the naval medical school in Portland we hear that
“big” Dick Ashcom on his way down to play in the big East
West game put an engagement ring on “Gig” Toomey, ADeePi
while on a stop over in Medford.
Pfc. William Cramer, ’46, is now back at Princeton univers
ity in the ASTU program. Bill is sports editor for “The Tiger's
Headquarters Squadron,
Marine Aircraft Group
Fifteen
Naval Auxiliary Air
Station, Camp Kearney
San Diego, 39, California.
The Editor,
Oregon Emerald,
University of Oregon,
Eugene, Oregon.
Dear Sir:
It has come to my attention
through several embarrassing
moments, that the Emerald, is
publicizing a certain campus
character, a pooch named Rod
ney.
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.
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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.
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