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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1945)
Students View National Service By MARILYN SAGE President Roosevelt asked con gress last week for a national ser vice act. Emphasizing the need for the “right number of workers in the right places at the right times,” his tone was more serious and de manding than when he suggested the plan a year ago. If the national service act is passed its effects will be imme diate and farreaching. It would mean the putting to work in the war effort the nation’s 4,500,000 4-Fs. It would mean the reexamin ing of men deferred for essential jobs who have since left these jobs. The president also proposed the drafting of nurses under selective service. Testifying the need for man power, army and navy officials ad vance the need in 11)45 for 1,500, 000 men for replacements and ex pansion. War industries allegedly lack approximately 300,000 work ers. At Oregon, as on all campuses, it will mean the disappearance of the majority of remaining men stu dents as well as a greater contri bution to the war effort on the part of the women. Pros and cons to the president’s proposal are many and varied: Barbara Younger: I feel that congress should not hesitate to call upon every able bodied citizen if the situation war rants it. I personally would have no qualms about being called upon to work. If they want me they can have me. Anita Young: It’s double-barreled—in addition to providing the necessary man power for the war effort it would give the men who are 4-F the feel ing of contribution and a more definite place in society. Refer ring to college men, however, I believe cases should be dealt with individually. Joan Dolpli: The president hopes that such a bill will prevent strikes. I main tain that existing legislation, if en forced, is adequate to stop strikes and effectively use manpower. If the government would frankly an nounce to the public the exact la bor requirements, the shortages would be taken care of by volun tary recruitment. Further, such an act would be costly and cumber some to administer. Barbara Pearson: I feel that the drafting of nurses would be important to prevent the great number of women from go ing into cadet nursing merely for the experience and who plan to drop it after graduation. Anne Craven: Such legislation would get rid of the slacker and the cheater who has been going from job to job, working only as he pleases. It will also insure enough workers for essential war plants. Ruth Kay Collins There has been and there will continue to be an ever-increasing need for more workers and more fighters, the type of people who feel the stress of war in places other than the pocketbook and cigarette case. We haven’t appeared voluntarily to fight or to work, and despite the manifold objections and errors apparent to the national service act, it will take such an act to bring us out from behind our “Let George do it” attitude. | Styt&d fey Btein By BILL BUELL We have been reading. We have been reading a book—Wf have been reading a book by Gertrude. We have been reading a book by Gertrude Stein. We have been reading a book being called Portraits and Prayers. We have been reading a bool; being called Portraits and Prayers by Gertrude. We have beer reading a book being called For- i traits and Prayers by Stein. We have been reading a book being called Portraits and Prayers by Gertrude Stein. We have been read ing a book. We have been reading. We have been reading reading reading reading reading. We have known books. We have known roses. We have known books and roses. We have known roses and books. We have known books and roses and roses and books and lizards with watches in their mouths climbing walls but being reading this book is being beating them all. Some are being thinking read ing this one writing being confus ing. Some are not being thinking reading this one writing not being confusing. Some are not being thinking reading this one writing not being confusing. Some are be ing thinking reading this one writ ing needing being confusing. Some are not thinking reading this one Oregon if Emerald ANNE CRAVEN Editor ANNAMAE WINSHIP Acting Business Manager ELIZABETH HAUGEN Managing Editor PATSY MALONEY Advertising Manager MARGUERITE WITTWER News Editor LOUISE MONTAG, PEGGY OVERLAND Associate Editors Jane Richardson* Phyllis Perkins, Viriginia Scholl, Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Norris Yates, City Desk Editors Bjorg Hansen, Executive Secretary Betty French Robertson, Women’s Editor Flora Furrow, Assistant Managing Editor Winifred Romtvedt, Assistant News Editor Darrell Boone, Photographer Betty Bennett. Music Editor Phyllis Amacher, World News Editor Gloria Campbell, Mary K. Minor Librarians Wally Adams, Sports Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Norris Yates, Edith Newton 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. Killed in Action . . . When one of our fellow students exchanges his cords for a uniform and trades in his books for education in the art of war, we consider his departure a temporary thing. We expect to find him back at school some day, taking up trig and history where he left off, drilling in an ROTC uniform just a shade too tight, dashing off a humor column or a cartoon, explaining bow he got all tangled up in judo class. “Killed in action,” is for other boys and men, but not for those we know—not for those who sat beside us in general psych or survey of Knglish lit, not for those who are called “shackrats.” J?ut ever so often that dream is shattered. Word comes that our own little world is as vulnerable as others. It is then that we realize once again that not everyone can come back. Such is the feeling we had when the news came that Clell Crane bad been killed in action in Germany. We prefer to remember him as the tall, gangly “character” who drew cartoons and wrote an occasional column for the Kmerald, rather than as the man who died for his country. We prefer to remember how he used to stand on one leg, proclaim ing- “my name is Crane,” rather than any valorous deeds he may have accomplished on the battlefield. And yet, through all our sadness at losing “one of us” we are proud of Clell Crane, the student, sluickrat, cartoonist, column ist, and finally, the man who died so that those of his generation and all suceeding generations, might be free. 0 • • Behind ^Jhaie Qtiadel Scene: any small group of girls talking on the campus. Time: the first of winter term. ‘‘You know, I'm really going to study this term and bring my GPA up.” "Me, too. You know, our whole house is on study table at night, ’cause we made such a poor showing on grade points last term.” “Well, I’ve got to get at least a 3 point. And Dad promised me a fur coat if I could get a 3.2.” Well, all right, so you’re going to get a 3 point, or a 2.5, or whatever it is you’re striving for. And why shouldn’t you want to? You are told constantly that the reason you came to college is for grades. And, you are told, it doesn't take a genius to get a 3 point at Oregon, or at most universities. So, we’ll assume the term's over, and you have achieved that much-desired 3 point, or 2.5, or the particular goal you had in mind, or your house sisters had in mind. And what else have you acquired, besides the GPA? True, Miss “Fur Coat’s” award will probably last for years. The house that fell so low has again struggled back into its place of prestige. And there is the personal satisfaction of having attained, through diligent application, a specific goal. But, aside from these external benefits, bow much the wiser are you? Did you really work for those grades, or did you scan the University catalogue to find the easiest snap courses? If you gave up cokes dates, or other extracurricular activities, to devote yourself to study every night, have you acquired knowledge which will be of use in developing your individual personality? Or will you, by the end of the year, have forgotten the essence of the course, although you still remember scat tered facts? Have you, by determined study, learned anything to help you enjoy your leisure moments? For leisure is quite as im portant as working time. Have you learned any more about getting along with the people with whom you live and work. And, more important, have you learned any better how to get along with yourself? For you are the one you will have to live the rest of your life with. It is your desire, your thoughts, your feelings, which you should he investigating, discovering, and channeling now. Will that higher GPA itself have any other meaning? Or will it just be another “feather in his cap" for the student to list among his various accomplishments? So he can tell his grandchildren, “You know, kids, when I was a sophomore at U. of O., I made a 3.5. Highest mark ever made by anyone in our family?” "TOGETHER AGAIN" with IRENE DUNNE CHARLES BOYER CHARLES COBURN McDonald "The Very Thought of You" with Dennis Morgan and Eleanor Parker — also — "Dark Mountain" "DRAGON SEED" with KATHERINE HEPBURN TURHAN BEY 'THE CLIMAX" with SUZANNE FOSTER and TURHAN BEY writing needing tieing comusins Some are thinking reading this or writing not needing being confut ing. Some are not thinking reading this one writing not needing being confusing. Some are thinking reading this one writing not need ing not being confusing. Some a^-t not thinking reading this one writing not needing not being con fusing. Some are being. Some are thinking. Some are reading^Ssmc are being thinking reading. Some are being reading thinking. Some are thinking being reading. Some are thinking reading being. Some are reading being thinking. Some are reading thinking being. Some are being thinking reading this one writing being confusing. Some are not being thinking reading this < writing being confusing. Extremely clear. A book is a book is a book. Gertrude Stein is Gertrude Steir is Gertrude Stein. Thank you. Law Students Abandon (Continued from page one) form, in preparation for the dance. I All of them prefer to be known by| the misnomer of “general spokes men for their colleagues.’’ “Prewar social functions of thf. law school attained considerab! heights of prominence among the well-informed, but notoriety amors the- laymen and ill-informed B.A.' students,’’ said one law school spokesman. “Although it was not] the most pretentious social^gca sion of the school year, it un doubtedly the most important.’’ A second general spokesman said every attempt will be made to maintain the tradition and high esteem of the law school’s ability to present social engagements of excellence. Referring to this tradi tion, a third spokesman reported, “In former years when a girl was asked to attend a law school dance, it was an honor comparable to se lection for Mortar Board. In fact, applications would start to arrive at the law school immediately on public notice of plans for the dance.” • Lost EMERALD ring Monday mojfeinj on campus. Reward. Patty Eck berg, Susan Campbell hall. 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