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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1944)
IIUUIIWllJIlililJIlIllllIllllIlUiaillllillllllllllinHtlllllllllllillllllltliniHlIllllllllllllllllllllHIIIIllllUIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIillllIillillllllilllinilillilillliinilllHliiiiiiniHUUinnilHiiiiwii'u CaAe Aaeuttli Women.... By ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS The cards have been stacked against women in government. On the whole, men have had more experience and better ex perience in nearly all the fields in which the bulk of govei n ment jobs fall. Today not as much experience is required of prospective employees as in pre-war days. The government has been hard hit by the draft. It has had to lower its standards somewhat to maintain staffs and keep going. As a result, women have entered the professional \\ ashington scene to a greater extent than ever before. But many administrators still prefer to comb the supply of 4-F males rather than hire women. Others prefer to have staff vacancies rather than hire women. Women are still, in too many cases, a last resort. One top government administrator has this to say about his prejudice against hiring members of the gentler sex: "Before the war, I had one woman on my professional staff. The pro portion of one woman to about 15 men worked out splendidly. Then, right after Pearl Harbor, I hired three more women. The first thing 1 knew, I had trouble on my hands. Two of the women couldn’t get along with each other or anyone else. They began having office spats that finally involved the whole staff. I had to fire both of them to get some peace and quiet and some work done. And I’m through hiring women from now on." Other administrators chorus about similar experiences with women. An important division chief in a large agency had some helpful hints to offer women before they apply for gov ernment employment: ‘‘Women should adopt a professional appearance and attitude. Somehow it’s hard to believe a woman has a great deal of job experience and competence when she comes to apply for a job when she’s dressed for a tea or cock tail party. On the other hand, I don't like to see anyone come in with flat heels and sloppy sweaters and skirts. 1 he woman that makes an impression on me, as a prospective employee, is the one that is dressed in a tailored outfit, whose hair is neat and not hanging all over her shoulders, and who is poised and self-contained in her manner.” v * * * . .. What about feminine behavior on the job? ?! here again he insisted on a professional attitude. "I've had women on my staff,” he said, "she pouted and acted hurt every time I handed an interesting assignment to someone else. They took every thing like that as a personal slight. 1 hand out an assignment to the person who 1 think can best handle it. Most of us are better at some tvpes of work than others. Every individual on my staff has, more or less, some kind of specialty. 1 try to fit the work to their particular abilities. Work volume determines assignments, too. l! someone is free to handle an assignment, the chances are that I'll give it to that person. “But women sometimes tend to think that the assignment I give the men or to other women are more interesting than their own. Jt’s mostly a matter of other pastures being greener. Often women fail to realize the full significance and interest of their own work.” * * * * 'Was that the division chief’s only complaint about women? By no means. "A lot of women expect favors. They come around dripping with insincere charm and hoping to be shown favoritism as a result. Some of them don’t work as well or as hard as they might—they rely on good looks to carry them along. And some of them are so temperamental that they'd drive you crazy if you had them on the staff very long. Another complaint against them—some of them—they get jealous ol other women on the staff.. And that means we can't work to gether as a team.” Asked if the men on his staff had always got along together, this section chief said, "Not always. That is, they didn't always form mutual admiration societies. And I ve had some men who actually disliked each other. But. they managed to conceal their feelings better than the women do. As a result, their attitudes didn’t often interfere with their working together. The men have generally been less interested in petty office squabbles and gossip and more interested in doing a good job. "1 don’t know what accounts for the difference between the two sexes as it's worked out in my office. Maybe it’s because men have families and more responsibility toward their jobs because of it. A lot of women in government are footloose and fancy free. No one depends on them for a living. Many of them hope to get married soon and stop working. That all tends to ”i\c them less of a professional attitude toward their work,” Most secretaries, stenographers and clerk-typists in govern ment are women. Many of them will not work for other women, because, they say, they get better treatment from men. One secretary sa>s, "Women are too bossy. Instead of asking you to tlo something, thov order you to do it. And they treat you like dirt. Men don't treat you that way, not many of them." * * * * Charges like that may make some women irate, but the fact remains that strong prejudice against women still exists in mam spots in government. Today the government is employing more women than ever Oregon® Emerald MARJORIE M. GOODWIN EDITOR ELIZABETH EDMUNDS business MANAGER MARJORIE YOUNG Managing Editor GLORIA MALLOY Advertising Manager ANNE CRAVEN News Editor Norris Yates, Joanne Nichols Associate Editors Betty Ann Stevens EDITORIAL BOARD Edith Newton Mary Jo Geiser Betty Lou Vogelpohl, Executive Secretary Carol Greening, Betty Ann Stevens Boabrin“USoonrEdhor °r Betty"SRobertson, Chief Night Editor Mary Jo Geiser, Staff Photographer Elizabeth Haugen, Assistant Managing Edi or Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Urego . Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.___. /1 fyeia ^naddiaw.. ,. War abruptly ends a lot of tiling's. It throttles liberal refonn, it terminates individual liberties; it chokes social progress. But the fact that it does not necessarily impair the activity of those who maintain the fine arts will be plainly shown tonight when the second all-campus Odeon gets under way in the music auditorium at 8 p.m. Odeon had its inception last year, when a little group of artistic and literary-minded students got together and decided that they and others in the University student body like them selves should be encouraged rather than almost totally ignoied outside the classroom. So this little group proceeded to interest several members of the faculty, and with their help a program ■was formulated which consisted entirely'' of student-written stories, essays, and poetry, and student-composed musical mini" hers, supplemented by an array of student-created art exhibits. This presentation turned out to be one of the most successful programs of the year, and it was decided to continue Odeon j and make it a campus tradition. But this year the war, while it did not stop Odeon, has never theless got in some good hard blows. The student body, from which the material is drawn, has been sadly depleted. A crowd ed schedule has necessitated the giving of the program at a time when many students will have gone home. But those who remain will turn out in force, we have no doubt. And whether a thousand people come, or only one, the attempt to establish Odeon as a campus tradition will have been definitely furthered.—N.Y. Globally Speaking By BILL SINNOTT Wendell L. Willkie’s withdrawal from the presidential derby is the news of the week. Mr. Willkie was the only Republican candidate who showed any awareness of the role that America should play after the armistice. Mr. Willkie is an internationalist. He believes that the United States must play a paramount part in the restoring of peace and prosperity to a war-torn worm. Few remember that the Repub lican party was the international ist party 40 years ago. The Demo crats, under the leadership of Wil liam Jennings Bryan, were the iso lationists of that era. During the administrations of McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt Americans suddenly became inter ested in world affairs. We became international-minded, due to our war with Spain. T. R. arbitrated the Russo-Japanese war at Ports mouth, New Hampshire. John Hay and Elihu Root made our in fluence greatly felt in the diplo matic jockeying that was the pre lude to Sarajevo. We believe that if T. R. had been president in 1914 World War I might have been avoided. He understood the tech nique of handling Emperor Wil liam II. Active Part Favored Taft, Root, and Hughes were in favor of our assuming an active role in World War I reconstruc tion. Wilson made many mistakes that led eventually to our with drawal from European and world affairs. He should never have gone to Paris. He should have appointed some senator to our delegation. He was not agile enough to cope with those two cynical, clever oppor tunists, Clemenceau and Lloyd George. The “Tiger’s” obsession was French security; Lloyd George’s idee fixe was the effect of his ac tions on the voters back home, and Wilson—Wilson, with Calvin ist stubborness, wanted the League — a League covenant without a period changed. The uneasy armistice of 1918 ended in 193 L with the Mukden in cident in Manchuria. The Lytton report was made—and filed in the pigeonholes of the European for eign offices. Secretary of State Stimson, with the active backing of Hoover, wanted to stop the “War of the Future” then and there. Sir John Simon, that peer less appeaser who has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered into his soul, sold us out before in its history. It is up to these women—and up to those soon to join the ranks of government employees—to leave a good impression in the minds of government officials. If women continue to he known as trouble-makers, the jobs will be scarce for them in Washington after the war. jy giving Japan carte blanche to to what she wished in “Maqriiu UlO.” The thirties were filled with ,a series of successive steps by which the axis powers prepared for a Mew Order. Hitler’s policy was so supremely simple that we can’t magine how he fooled our Bertie McCormacks, Ham Fishes, and Rufus Holmans. Hitler Marched He restored conscription, reoccu pied the Rhineland, took Austria, and Czechoslovakia. The anti-com intern pact and the Rome-Berlin fokyo axis made it evident that :air turn would be next. The fall of France brought us to our senses. We joined the Commit tee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. Republicans like Will-j kie, Stimson, Wadsworth, and Aus ten became aware of our danger. We believe an international or ganization is essential for pros perity and avoidance of future wars. If bureaucracy and economic nationalism become the policy of the United Nations after the war, we might as well prepare for World War III. An international organization would ensure a free fhnv of trade and a stable monetary system. If the Republican party nominates an isolationist at Chicago it might as well fold up. Willltie was our log ical candidate — a believer in operation abroad and free eiwer^ prise at home. 1 Easter.... By A. HAKE Easter . . . some say its an old Roman custom, others say that our irch enemies, the Germans, started the quaint customs, still others say that it’s an ancient Persian cus tom, meaning things like Easter ?ggs and overdressing in too-new clothes. It really began 1900 years ago with the cry “crucify him, crucify aim . . Earlier terms, “Ostara” mcl “Eastre” signified a festival for the season of new birth, the modern recognition of the resur rection of Christ. “Ostara” was the divinity of spring of the ancient Norsemen, who was welcomed by a festival of celebration on her annual return. She reclothed the earth with the greenery and flowers after each winter or night of death had swept away its fading verdancy. ^ The painting of Easter eggs is an age-old symbol of redemption and deliverance. The hare and or rabbit is representative of the moon. It is supposed to steal into home on Easter eve and lay bright ly colored eggs. This conception, however, is a slight distortion of biological phenomina. Both the symbol of the Easter egg and of the Easter rabbit is life-giving. The earlier ideas for coloring eggs were derived from the rays of the au rora borealis and the dawning hues of the Easter sun. Fires Another way in which Easter was cited was by laying a n^w hearth fire and lighting it. Easter binfires were kindled on the hills to remove evil with their light. Young men and maidens who de sired to marry during the coming year sang and danced around the flames. And then there is the Constan tine school of thought. It is said that Constantine, emperor of Rome 1600 years ago, used Easter as an excuse to appear in rich apparel so new and unusual that everyone else would seem poorly clad in comparison. Of course, “the Jones es" had to “dress up,” too. SfiP heretofore simple ceremonies per formed on Easter didn’t suit Con stantine's taste for grandeur. He declared that elaborate services filled with pomp and extraordinary richness be observed.
