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.
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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
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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
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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.”
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