iiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiuiinmr Nuf Sed By CHAS. POLITZ (Sweeping aside a suggestior that the third installment of the third article on an interesting po litical system on the planet Mar go, be subdivided into five chap ters, the author dogmatically de cided on a final course of action, It may quite possibly become ap parent to those who read this that this is the final article.) * * * The promotion campaigns were climaxed by twin “psycho” rallies held at opposite ends of the wind ing Campus trail so that the bands, talent, and hot dog vendors could shuttle from one to the other thus making sure that neither side would miss a trick. Both rallies were deeply psychological in intent and achievement. The Boo-Baas gathered their fol lowers in a hollow square lined on tour sides with huge, tulip mouthed loudspeakers. As the crowd gathered the low, moving power-music of the Tschaikovsky I’athetique rolled up from the speakers’ throats and on out o cr assembling throng. The soothing balm continued to be administered for 15 minutes af ter the masses had arrived—then lower, lower, almost to a whisper of the first violins and then a voice rising steadily with the mounting rhythm of the second movement — slowly — sincerely — persuasively —■ “Heeeennnndahhh Brruuult — aaahhhh — Heeennn dahh Brruuult,” it said. The exact effectiveness of this approach is still being calculated by the out standing consultants in mass psy chology in all the centers of the world. Crafty Baas The Baa-Baas - crafty they — deemed it wisest to present the subject to their constituents by the indirect method. They brought Pundit Walter Lippmann from Earth to speak on the History of Earthy Foreign Policy. A master stroke. The campus was plunged into an orgy of excitement the morning of the day before elections when a small news folder printed on Shocking Pink onion skin in Ma genta Bold and Italic fluttered down on the library steps. The folder, innocently titled “Tlie Mud Puddle,” contained two pages de \ oted to deftly-worded scurrilous defamation of each candidate. Striking serutchboard cuts bright ened up the otherwise drab pages. "Copies of the special election extra were eagerly sought, and up on being apprehended were well received by both students and fac ulty so well in fact that the mod est editors chose to remain in cognito and thus escape the tiring the assembling throng. By election morn the campus was really at fever heat. The Baa Baas distributed roller skates to all their members so that they could roll to vote between classes. Lollypoppys The Boo-Baas distributed lolly pops from stands stationed at in tervals completely surrounding the polls being careful, however, to place these booths outside the two block electioneering zone. The in genious lollypops were large, round, comfortable to mouth, and contained a sample ballot of Boo Baa candidates. The recipient absorbed bis re ligion as he licked, became con vinced of the advisability of sup porting a party that so strongly favored the good things in life, anil upon entering the polls, was com pletely legal and innocent of in traction as all semblances of elec tioneering had dissolved with tin seventy-second lick. The calcula tions of the Boo-Baas’ lolly pop ex pert were perfect, as he had deter mined on 41 licks to the block Oregon W Emehmj MARJORIE M. GOODWIN ELIZABETH EDMUNDS EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER MARJORIE YOUNG GLORIA MALLOY Managing Editor Advertising Manager ANNE CRAVEN News Editor Norris Yates, Joanne Nichols Associate Editors EDITORIAL BOARD . Betty Ann Stevens Edith Newton Mary Jo Geiser Betty Lou Vogelpohl, Executive Secretary Betty French Robertson, Chief Night Editor Warren Miller, Army Editor Elizabeth Haugen, Assistant Managing Editor Carol Greening, Betty Ann Stevens Marguerite Wittwer, Exchange Editor Co-Women’s Editors Mary Jo Geiser, Staff Photographer Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holiday* and dnal examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. v'<Vte fcooh" A long year of work came to an end last night when Helen Johnson presented the 1944 Oregana to her staff. It all began last spring for Helen Johnson, Edith Newton, and the rest of the upper Oregana staff. While the rest of us were going on picnics and looking forward‘to summer vacations, “the book” was a-borning. Ads had to be sold, spring section pictures had to be taken, paper purchases had to be computed, the cover and the size of the book had to be figured out. So it went, and deadlines reared picture-eating heads. About then, Helen Johnson got measles. The book is here now, a trifle smaller—but no less exciting than those of past years. And it reflects, better than anything we have seen, the transition Oregon has gone through. There has always been something definitive about the Ore gana. When at last students have seen the picture record, they have been able to sort out campus events and to get a perspec tive on them. And in this strange and disturbed year the Ore gana has not failed to bring Oregon into focus for its students. Many of those who attended the banquet last night were thinking of long hours spent pasting pictures, telephoning liv ing organizations, scheduling pictures, or running down town on an extra errand. And out of these memories, and the sight of “the book before them, they have every last reason to be proud of what they have done. The Oregana, which will go into so many students’ suitcases when they pack to go home, and which will be sent this year to the army ducks who have left, is a splendid achievement. The Oregana has come out on top with the shine about it which we have grown to expect. Last night, “Johnny” officially stepped down from her post as Oregana editor. She takes with her the excellent Oregana for 1944.—M.M.G. “Most college students lead secluded lives, and a good many years usually elapse before the graduate takes his place as an active citizen in his community. This lag must be overcome.” Dr. William 1\ Zimmerman, president of Thiel college, Green ville, Pa., advocates apprenticeships in community service and leadership for college men and women. jjs jjc “As the colleges responded to the war nehds by such things as the Y-12 program, they will respond to the needs of postwar reconstruction when the time comes.” Postwar education re ceives a vote of confidence from Dr. Walter A. Dunden, former president of Gustavos Adolphus college, St. Peter, Minn. the average student’s tongue-gyra- ] tion rate. As the day progressed the ex citement became almost unbear able ballot boxes, gorged all day with votes, began to swell beyond recognition, candidates passed the time running frenzied fingers through frenzied hair and playing "Tip-Toe Through the Tulips" on the rims of coke glasses in the Gaping Crag. Party leaders twirled each other’s keychains with ner vous abandon. This Is It Then the big moment - - 6 o' clock-all voting ceased. The bal lot boxes were carefully locked and placed in the arms of the ballot box carriers and torches were lit and both sides formed their members into a continuous chain of linked arms and waists and the ballot box carriers lifted the boxes to their shoulders and the parade to the traditional elec tion night bonfire began—through empty fraternity row, down sor ority lane, past the physical sci ence building, over the asparagus covered hill behind the women’s gymnasium to the clearing be yond. Singing—chanting -excite ment anxiety. And the crowd squatted Indian fashion in a perfect circle inscribed by math professors, and the ballot boxes were carried to the fore and placed in a pyramiding pile in the exact center. Silence—not an in haled breath—silence. THEN—the match was struck, the tiny flame flickered brightly and was tossed on the waiting pile. The union with the boxes was complete and every one toasted marshmallows for the rest of the night. Globally Speaking > By BILL SINNOTT The present Japanese offensive in Honan province draws our attention to the current situation in free China after nearly seven years of war. The Chunking government is completely cut off from inter course with the outside world with the exception of the mere trickle of supplies that are flown over the most difficult flying terrain imaginable — the Hima layas. The loss of Burma closed he Burma road. General Stilwell has been valiantly trying to open a new route by which war materials will reach the Chinese. This Ledo road is not yet in operation. The continuance of China in the war probably depends upon its imme diate opening. China is war-weary. The country is- experiencing an inflation un paralleled since the German dis aster of twenty years ago. Instead of machine tools, planes carry bundles of crisp new banknotes, engraved in America, for the Na tionalist government. American observers in Chung king are worried. It costs $7.00 to buy a sparkplug smuggled through the Japanese lines. A coolie em ployed by the New York Times correspondent struck for higher wages because his monthly salary of $2500 would not buy a suit of clothes. 1931 Saw Beginning Japan started the present war in 1931 by taking over Manchuria. In 1932 the Japs briefly occupied Shanghai. Since the Marco Polo bridge episode of 1937, China has been actively fighting the Nip ponese invaders. Japan controls the seacoast of China, besides all the important in dustrial cities, such as Peking, Shanghai, Nanking, Hankow, and Canton. Free China has no industrial plant to speak of. The Chinese armies are composed of great masses of poorly armed, poorly led j peasants. It is amazing that the Chinese have withstood the Jap- j anese for so long. Not Free Country China is not a democracy. It is a ..dictatorship ..of ..Chiang ..Kai Shek and the fabulous Soong fam ily. The Chinese empire was over thrown in 1911 by the Cantonese under Sun Yat-Sen. Sun was the Washington and Lenin of the Chi nese revolution. His sayings are as sacrosanct to the Chinese, as are those of Marx and Stalin to the Russians. His Three Peoples’ Prin ciples—“Nationalism, Nationality, j Livelihood”—are the slogans of the : country. Dr. Sun died of chagrin after Yuan Shik-ICai set up a military dictatorship in 1912.-- The next 15 years in China formed the era of “warlords.” Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of ANNUAL ANNIVERSARY! Both stores values galore SHOP NOW Penmj-Wise 40 E. Broadway and Irish Swartz Shopping- Center 709 \Y. 6th Ave. Glimpses .. . By MARGUERITE WITTWER Waltzing flirtatiously over the grass, daisies are chorus girls dancing on glass. Ripples on the millrace echoing back glimpses of the river across the track. Slender young poplars, dressed in green, stretch to the sky to survey the scene. the Kuomintang party of Sun Yit Sen, drove north from Canton in 1926 to unify the country. Chiang was aided by the Reds with sup plies and advice. Chiang made a deal with the Shanghai bankers and turned vio- * lently anti-communistic. China made great progress during the next decade. Chiang married Mei ling Soong, whose influence upon Chiang and China has been re markable. Ai-ling Soong married Dr. Rung, the 7oth direct descen dant of Confucius. Hung is China’s perpetual minister of finance. China Getting Impatient Ching-ling Soong is the widow of Sun Yat-Sen. T. V. Soong was China’s foreign minister until this year. Madame Kung, a staunch conservative, is the real power “be hind the throne.” China is in a desperate fix. Her _ economy has broken down due to lack of replacements. She wishes action — not plati tudes of a Better World uttered by the many American visitors to Chunking. Mr. Roosevelt has tried to give China a shot in the arm by abol ishing extraterritoriality and mak ing China one of the “Big Four.” China is not a great power at pres ent. She will be twenty years from now. Our giving if immediate, ade quate aid to China at once will insure the peace in the Far East by setting up a counterpoise to Japan. A strong, free China will show the other non-white peoples “* that the western powers have shed imperialism as a national policy. HUNGRY? After tonight's show come in and fulfill your desire by having a good cheeseburger . . . a cup of delicious coffee . . . and then finishing it with a piece of pumpkin pie! SNAPPY SERVICE RESTAURANT and Fountain 1017 Willamette 3S0-JNI Next to McDonald