Page 2 DAILY EMERALD
Tuesday, Oct. 31, 1944
ANNE CRAVEN
Editor
ROSEANN LECKPE
Business Manager
ELIZABETH HAUGEN
Managing Editor
FRANNIE MAIER
Advertising Manager
MARGUERITE WITTWER
News Editor
EDITORIAL BOARD
Norris Yates, Edith Newton, Carol Sibulski
Betty Lou Vogelpohl, Executive Secretary
Betty French Robertson, Women’s Editor
Winifred Romtvedt, Assistant News Editor
Darrell Boone, Photographer
Jean Lawrence, Assistant Managing Editor
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 matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.
What will the world, be like when this war is over? Will the
peace he lasting- or will the same mistakes be made all ovcr
again? Will there be another depression? Will people revert
back to isolationism and extreme nationalism instead of banking
their hopes on an international organization?
'Those are just a few of the questions we ask as we stumble
along, trying to see some promise in the post-war world. But
usually in bull sessions we barely touch on them and then
go on to matters which we feel are “closer to home.”
In a few short years we will lie catapulted into a world
struggling over the solutions to those questions. We will find
that they art not problems to be ignored, but that they actually
concern each of us.
We have been told that we should continue our college
careers so that we can train for our part in rebuilding the post
war world. We must prepare now, if we are to take an intelli
gent part in constructing a world worth living in. Each course
is another step. We must have the knowledge to help us make
intelligent decisions. We must keep our eyes and ears open so
that we will not suddenly wake up and find that an entirely
new world had developed while we ignored it during our four
years at college.
But our training should also include “courses” in activities,
ft is through activities that we learn how to work with people,
how to lead when necessary, and how to cooperate with the
group when necessary. It is in this manner that we learn how
to carry out our ideas into successful projects. For if we are
to help lead people, we must be prepared as leaders.
We are not suggesting that a person delve so deeply into
activities that he has no time for studying. After all, eve came
to the University primarily to study and learn.
But we do suggest that everyone on this campus at some
time or another should get out and participate in the work of
planning and carrying out campus activities and government.
The training received would be an invaluable addition to your
studies.
'Think of it as your duty as a citizen of the community. Just
as every clear thinking citizen of a city community knows that
it is his duty to serve on a jury when called, you should con
sider it your duty and privilege to participate in the life of
the college community.—M.A.C.
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Beneath the Qacti
“Knowledge to humans is like the white of an egg to an
unborn chicken. You can surround yourself in it. But it doesn't
do you much good unless you know how to use it.”
Frequently college students with noses specially-built for
burying in books insulate themselves with what they fondly
think is a shock-absorber of knowledge, a fine, thick coating
of facts and data. They gather a wealth of information on a
wide variety of subjects. They appear quite profound creatures,
proudly point out fallacies in faulty reasoning, and even turn
into radical thinkers. Life for them, in thought at least, is on
a very high plane. They know the meaning of complex terms,
and accept no statement that is not based on a logical premise.
They are interesting to talk to, and have a burning desire to
acquire all the knowledge they can.
But they are so concerned in learning about laws—The Law
of Supply and Demand, Mendel’s Law of Genetics, The Law
of Diminishing Return, and other blanket laws—which, they
reason, have determined and always will determine the course
of the world, that they arc apt not to see the simple, funda
mental truths.
It takes shrewdness to understand human nature. But be
cause human nature is illogical, often people who are burdened
with knowledge, fail completely to understand it.
Some of these same students may grasp at one cause onlv
for a situation, ignoring all other causes. Others may be so
lost fn a maze of technical terms that they are unable to see
the fundamentals of a problem.
What is needed, then, is to probe beneath the facts of what
happened, to find why it happened, and to try to plan future
action accordingly.—L.H.
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By JOHN J. CRAIG
WHAT MANNER OF MAN?—Noel F. Busch—Harpers. 1944.
Noel Busch sets for himself a difficult task in discussing the
world’s most-written-about head of state in his latest brief
volume. Mr. Busch’s new biography of President Roosevelt
is a remarkable combination of biography, psychoanalysis, his
tory, and reportorial gossip.
As a writer for Time, Fortune,
and editor for Life magazine, the
author has had many opportunities
tc see the president and his prin
cipal associates at close range and
at the same time has absorbed
much Washington gossip about
their methods and intentions. The
result is, with possible exception of
Gerald W. Johnson’s “Roosevelt:
Dictator or Democrat,” the most
balanced and readable book about
the president that has yet ap
peared.
'Although Author Busch is some
what confusing in his psycho
analysis of the President, we are
able to see a friendly and con
vincing portrait of a man whose
prime drives are the love of people
and excitement, and a dislike of
friction and contradiction.
""Mr. Busch sees the president's
“a, good but not a very wise man;
vain, captious, overconfident and
warmhearted; no more honest than
most, but friendlier than the aver
age; courageous but at the same
time no totally without a certain
somewhat meretricious grandeur.”
Contrary to what some campus
Republicans might think, Busch on
the whole inclines a balance for
F. D. R. He endorses at least two
of his three main strategic war
decisions—to beat Germany first,
to demand unconditional surrender,
to attack Africa and Italy before
France.
Mr. Busch tells us, despite Re
publican whispering campaigns,
that the president is, if not quite
top form, still lively as a cricket,
full of stamina, and on his game
ready to enjoy a series of new and
even-more-exciting crises.
In contrast to other Roosevelt
biographers like Emil Ludwig,
Gerald G. Johnson, and the presi
dent’s mother, Busch has given the
fairest and most unbiased picture
that might be obtained, for he sees
the president objectively while the
others are either violently opposed
to the man or whole-heartedly for
him.
This review is dedicated to the
American voter who finds himself
in a “mugwump” frame of mind,
lor by reading Noel Busch’s unique
biography he might be furnished
with just enough zip to break his
dilemma, or at least give himself
an “inside” on the man he chooses
to make a lasting peace program.
Air Alert
By SHUBERT FENDRICK
Dig your way out o£ that pile of textbooks. Forget those mid
terms for an hour or so. Flip the switch on that conglomeration
of tubes and condensers. Hoist the volume. The ether is loaded
with entertainment—all for free. Help yourself to a big chunk
of it.
Barbara Bentley, Miss Lane
County, will be interviewed by a
movie star over the KGW (620)
program, time Friday at 9:30 p.m.
Good luck, Barbara.
If you are in a poor humor to
night or you just want good laughs,
we’d like to suggest two of the best
end most popular comedy pro
grams on the air. Here they are:
A Blot, Too
Fibber McGee and Molly - this
program always has a plot'to hold
it together. Therefore it leaves you
with more than a lot of gags that
you can't remember anyhow. The
character actors that come in
throughout the program are always
good and original. Billy Mills al
ways has his orchestra on tap, and
the King’s men take care of the
singing assignments, NBC, 6:30,
every Tuesday — we like it — and
heartily recommend it to you.
Hardly have Fibber McGee and
Molly left the air waves when Bob
Hope comes in on the same net
work. Hope is our favorite com
edian so of course we’re prejudiced,
but we think his program is tops.
He is well supported by such stars
as Jerry Colonna, Frances Lang
ford, and Vera Vague. Skinnay
Ennis makes the music. Listen once
and you’ll listen again—NBC, 7
every Tuesday.
We listened to some programs
over the weekend which you might
like to hear next Sunday.
Digest Aired
In our estimation the Radio
Reader’s Digest is one of the best
variety dramatic programs on the
air today. Conrad Nagle is the
M.C., and the program is some
what like an oral interpretation of
the Reader's Digest. There is a 10
or 15-minute dramatic sketch,
some shorter ones, and some dram
atized puns. Part of the program
is usually good education as well I
as entertainment. If you can get j
CBS in the daytime, it's 6 o’clock!
Sunday.
Another program that we listen
to regularly, although we don’t
know why, is Take It or Leave It.
Quiz programs are rather point
less, but some of them are pretty
good, and you hear so much about
the $64 question that if you haven’t
heard the program you really
should listen jn and find out what
it’s all about. CBS, 7, Sunday. You
may like it.
Magazine Board
(Continued )rum page one)
and trends and snapshots or ideas
suitable for use in Mademoiselle
are submitted by members.
In addition to the prizes, a mem
ber is paid for any actual articles,
ideas, or pictures used. The quality
of her work counts toward her ap
plication for a guest editorship on
Mademoiselle. Each year, in the
late spring, fourteen College board
members are selected to go to New
York in June and spend a month as
guest editors putting together
Mademoiselle's August college
issue.
Applications should be submit
ted to Miss Phyllis Lee Schwalbe,
College Board editor, Mademoi
selle, 122 East 42nd street, New
York City.
Despite the hundred-legged im
plication of its name, the centipede
has but twenty pairs of legs.
Jeep: A cocktail shaker with
three speeds.
| Clips and j
Comments I
By BETTY BUSHMAN and
JANE ELLSWORTH
It Ain’t the Dark, Brother
Everything from escalators to f
classical records were suggested 1
for the post-war improvement of
Northwestern university in an all
campus poll taken at Evanston
last week. Included on the unique
list, was the appeal made by one
studious lad for better lighting in
the library because “the dark
makes people sleepy.’’
It’s Even Rather Odd
Then there was the sophomore
who wanted to see the music li
brary enlarged. At the present
time, only the odd symphonies of
Beethoven are in the collection—
1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. Said he, “I like
2, 4, 6, and 8, too.”
All Out and All In
The Independence (Ore.) Enter
prise says that a local storekeeper
has put this notice on his door:
Out of cigars
Out of cigarets
Out of gum
Out of patience
Out of town
Wheel They Did It
An exciting homecoming game ’
was witnessed by University of
Kansas students and alumni last
week. For the Trst time in 48 |
years, their football team defeated
Nebraska’s on home soil.
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Etiquette & Company
At the University of' Montana,
Mortar Board’s Charm School is
the place for students who suffer
from a squeamish feeling when
they meet the person with whpftU
they broke a date while on a date
with a better prospect, bite their
nails, snap their fingers, tap their
feet, wring their hands, chew their
upper lips, wear polka dot ties with
plaid shirts, combine orange skirts
and fuschia blouses, or are self
conscious about preceding a woman
through a door and banging it in
her face.
If this idea spreads, it looks as
if Emily has lost her post to Mor
tar Board.
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“The Friendly Rivalry
of College Life”
The University of California nas
invited Stanford university to at
tend the forthcoming Cal-USC
football game. Since Stanford, lifcj?
Oregon, OSC, etc., etc., does not
have a football team for the dura
tion, “this,” stated the ASUC
president, “is probably the only
way of continuing the traditional
California-Stanford rivalry until
the end of the war.”
Maybe they’re going to see who
can sell the most hot dogs.
Signs of the Times
By the way, last week we saw
a University of Washington stu
dent who was hitchhiking his way
down to see the Cal football game.
He said that he was having no
trouble at all getting rides, al
though carrying a suitcase and a
big sign did prove cumbersome
The sign read: “Stop, or I’ll Vote
for Him Again.”
An optimist is one whose glass
is half full; a pessimist is one
whose glass is half empty.
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