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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1944)
Oregon® Emerald A In JN K (JKAVJiJN Editor Business Manager ELIZABETH HAUGEN Managing Editor FRANNIE MAIER Advertising Manager MARGUERITE WITTWER News Editor LOUISE MONTAG, PEGGY OVERLAND Associate Editors EDITORIAL BOARD Norris Yates, Edith Newton, Carol Cook Betty Lou Vogelpohl, Executive Secretary Betty French Robertson, Women’s Editor Winifred Romtvedt, Assistant News Editor Darrell Boone, Photographer Jean Lawrence, Assistant Managing Laitor Gloria Campbell, Mary K. Minor Librarians Betty Bennett, Music 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 matte/- at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. SUi>ihenA Aten't WantexH. . . Almost every day The Emerald carries stories announcing the appointment of a number of Betty Coeds and Joe Colleges as committee members. The publicity is grand and the an nouncement usually finds its way into home town papers, thereby making the students “big shots’’ in the eyes of home town folks. The chairman is happy, “Such a nice bunch of people.’’ Soon, however, smiles change to looks of worry. Just try and find the committee members, or for that matter get any of them to work. They have more excuses for inability to carry out the functions assigned to them than a freshman trying to get out of an eight o’clock. Unfortunately, at the last minute something always comes up which is more important than the job to be done. Granted, there are a large number of students on this campus who do not take appointments unless they are sure they have the time and ability to do a good job. We are speaking of those who only think of the glory of being on a committee and forget entirely about such insignificant matters as the work involved. ...There is a responsibility attached to appointments. People are dependent on you for the success of whatever function you are a part of and if you shirk your job it may mean that the whole project will collapse. College is a training ground for future life and the cold, gray world isn’t going to stand for shirkers. If you get used to slip ping out of work which you had accepted, you will receive a rude awakening when you leave this campus. Only if everyone does his share, can a program, project, dance or drive be a success. It’s up to you. If you agree to do a job, then do it. Don’t let the work "slip your mind” after you have received all the glory.—-M.A.C. 4 • • Q. P. A. tf-a&dtc/i With the latest ASUO executive council meeting', something new lias been added to the freshman’s campus perspective. .There is a lot to the old theory professors, grandparents, and other such learned people are always driving into us, that knowledge should he the pure, unadulterated goal of every in telligent person and that such a purpose, in itself, is sufficient cause for the student putting forth every effort possible. But if one takes the average, slightly confused freshman and asks him why he is attending the University, and what his pur pose is behind the daily struggles he undergoes, there is likclv to be only the evidence of chaos, l'or the average human being is not corccrned with intellectual standards nor with moral aims. J3e has a number of unformed reasons for doing what he is doing, and in some cases even has none. So, progressive educa tion considers the purpose behind education, considers the human failings of the individual and then proceeds to set up incentives and material goals which will persuade and charm the student into throwing every mental hone in his head into complete, over-all ettort. The executive council with this realization in mind and also as a personal merit award has offered to tlve freshman boy and girl with the highest cumulative ('■ PA, a scholarship of $75. The decision will rest upon grades received during the fall and winter terms, and freshmen, with mid-terms hardlv begun, have the best possible chances to start out on an even footing with each other. This will be the first time such a scholarship has been offered and some boy and girl can expect the award during the spring term. The results of this decision will probable be widespread and will aflect more than the two who will eventually receive the scholarship. With a material incentive before them, everyone can expect an increase in freshman grades during this vear. Now is the time to start pulling toward that goal which will be just enough to start some person out for the summer vaca tion, "well-holed" and with the best evidence of a superb record anyone could offer. And the others will have learned that in .aluable lesson—how to study.P.F.O. Qlabcdlif Sft&akitUf By BILL SINNOTT Those aging lovers, ex-King Carol and Magda Lupescu, recently amazed the people of Vera Cruz by embarking for Brazil with 25 trunks, 40 suit cases, two Rolls Royces and assorted servants. Carol is en route back to Rumania. Russia believes fcarol is the only person who is capable of ruling a chaotic Rumania. Constantine Oumansky, the Soviet ambassador to Mexico, sent Magda a corsage of orchids as a proletarian bon-voyage present. This amazing volte face of the Kremlin brings to our mind how very different this war is than the last. Then the Fourteen Points of Wilson were a clarion call to the peoples of the world. The Allies had something to fight for—the Central Powers something to look forward to after their defeat. Now the maxim is that a person strong enough to form a stable government should rule. Thus Russia’s support of Badoglio in Italy, Baron Man nerheim in Finland and now Carol in Rumania. A New Holy Alliance The proposed international super-state is to be run by the Big Three for Europe not by Europe. It is sort of a revived Holy Alliance. The principle of legitimacy seems to be playing as great a role as in the days of Metternich and Castlereagh. Carol and his companion will find Bucharest greatly changed. The Athenee Palace hotel has been blitzed. The Athenee was the center of Rumanian intrigue. It was the hunting ground of Edith von Kohler, the Mata Hari of this war. The hotel was thronged writh painted excellencies, corseted army officers and spies of both sexes. It is paradoxical that Carol should owe his return from exile to Stalin. The king, who is vastly proud of his Hohenzollern blood, looked down on Hitler as scum from Vienna flophouses. Now the cousin of the last czar is beholden to the son of a Georgian cobbler. Carol Overshadowed Carol is able and intelligent—a multilingual pro duct of that old international of kings. The king had an inferiority complex due to his overshadowment in his youth by his sprightly, glamorous mother, Queen Marie. Carol’s great-uncle, Carol I, was imported into Rumania, as the country’s ruler, in 1866 by the Bratianu family who ruled the kingdom for sixty years. Marie was a beautiful granddaughter of Victoria who, for political reasons, was forced to marry Carol I’s nephew and heir, Ferdinand. Ferdinand was a hideously ugly dumb cluck. Marie decided to console herself with the handsome and rich Prince Stirbey. Prince Stirbey, by a funny coincidence, negotiated the recent Rumania armis tice in Cairo. Much-Wedded King Carol grew up willful and spoiled. He married morganatically during the last war. Marie had the marriage annulled. Carol was dragooned into marry ing Princess Helen of Greece. Carol emulated his mother; seeking consolation from Magda Lupescu, the daughter of a junk dealer from Jassey, called Wolf. The couple were exiled in 1927. In 1930 Carol returned and displaced his son as king. For ten years Carol ruled Rumania by trying to play off all the powers against each other. Magda was disliked bitterly by Rumanians, net because she was the king’s maitresse en titre but because she sold offices and concessions like a true daughter of the horse leech. The Rumanians are the world’s most amoral people. The patriarch of the State Church was looked up to because he kept a chorus girl. Graft Causes Trouble The kindom’s great trouble was an overloaded bureacracy that grafted like Pendergast. Carol tried to modernize his country’s economy. He was a staunch supporter of the Allies until the fall of France paved the way for his downfall. Mihai is still ruling Rumania. A cabinet made up of the same old gang—the Manius and Bratianus is trying to fight off communistic attempts to in filter the country. IF A BUJJDY MEET A BUDDY- ] By JEANNE WILTSHIRE Hello all! Here’s more news of our Oregon men in the ser vice. . . . Let’s start off with Ed Moshofsky, former Delta Upsilon president who is home on leave and visiting the campus. This previous football player is now playing ball with the army as a second lieutenant at Camp Sheldon, Mississippi. Don Lonie, ATO, also visited the alma mater last weekend. Don is stationed in the naval train ing school at UCLA. Ensign Bill Huggins, class of '45, and ATO member, graduated from midshipman school August 23, 1944, and is now stationed at Little Creek, Virginia, as a gunnery offi cer. Harlowe Hayes, Duck from '41 to '43, now in the V-12 program studying to become a chaplain, has been assigned to Columbia uni versity. Harlow was previously schooling at Park college, Mis souri. John Noble Home PFC John Noble, Phi Psi, just returned from two years overseas. John is reporting back to Mary land to be an instructor. Private Jack Ruble, Chi Psi now in the M. P. platoon at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, spoke at a fratern ity meeting last Tuesday evening. Navy man Marve Brown has been seen around the campus recently. Marve was previously at Willam ette university in the V-12 pro gram. As for some data on “who is where, or who's doing what” . . . Bill Borcher is in the navy sta tioned in the Hawaiian Islands; Harry Johnson is in England with a replacement unit; Fred Rugh is studying meteorology in the army air corps; Bill Dean is in a rest camp in Australia convalescing after a siege of typhus; Bob Lit ten is in New Guinea. Fanclier Visits Campus Bill Love is studying in the V-12 program at Notre Dame; and Eu gene Bird, also with the V-12, is stationed at Helena, Montana. Lieutenant j.g. Brad Fancher, Sigma Nu, who graduated from Oregon in ’41, was visiting the campus last Thursday. Brad is sta tioned near Boston, Mass, i And now for a glimpse into the Lemon Drops By SHUBERT FENDRICK If you see some students wan dering around the campus mum bling odd jumbles of letters, don’t rush them to the infirmary. They are just freshmen learning to spell for English comp. The dictionary is now reported speedily replacing the dog as man’s tfreshman’s) best friend. Have you noticed large clouds of smoke hovering over the campus lately ? Or have you seen boys tramping down the street emitting huge billows of smoke not unlike that of locomotives? Due to the life of the air corps -Privates Jim Pelton, Don Beechler, Ben Brown, and Frank Churftey, have really seen something of the world since they left the campus last May. From here they took their “direc tion finding” training at Selfridge field, Michigan, and after a slight wait for planes, the boys flew to Brazil and from there on to India. Krusclike in Medford Private Ray Kruschke who left the campus last May, is now sta tioned at the Medford air field. Ray was recently in Eugene on a three-day pass. And as a closing note, Private Bob Glasgow, ’41, now in New Guinea, writes that while on a night problem with several buddies leeently, they just happened to run across a watermelon patch, raided it. and carried the melons back to camp where the boys enjoyed a feast. This war isn’t so bad after all. shortage of popular brands of cigarettes, many lads have drawn their trusty pipes and these pipes are responsible for turning the U. of O. into another Pittsburgh. And that, as the man said, is no pipe dream. The girls have, so far, maiSii aged to get by with the brands of cigarettes obtainable. * a: a: At last! At last! The Republi cans have their Dewey buttons, and the Democrats have their Roose velt buttons. From now on until election, everyone can go about glaring at everyone else. We spot ted one enterprising female with a Roosevelt button on one collar and a Dewey button on the other. Maybe she was trying to appease both factions or perhaps she just hadn’t made up her mind. Yesterday we saw a squirrel run ning around the top of Johnson hall. Johnson hall, as you know, is Where you go to register. MaybJ? the squirrel managed to get in. Has anyone seen a squirrel attending classes ? DANCING Every Saturday Night 9 ’til 12 at the EUGENE HOTEL with ART HOLMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA in the Persian Room