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Petriished daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, asd holidays and
'final examination periods ny the Associated Students. University of Oregon.
Entered as second •class matter at the poetoffice, Eugene, Oregon.
“The war drags on and on, thrust and parry fashion, until
it looks as if it were never going to end. Britain is looking
after her interest in Greece and other prize plums, while Russia
is settling the Balkans comfortably into her ample bosom. The
French house the Americans and cheat them every chance they
get; people seem to forget the part that ‘gallant’ France played
in bringing on and prolonging this war. Only the Americans
fight with an undivided interest—that of getting the war over
with. And the other nations are certainly willing to let the
Americans fight.”
This was written by a former University of Oregon student
who is now a sergeant in France. He is company clerk of a
noncombatant unit and as such gets around a good deal behind
the lines and has a much greater opportunity to observe what
goes on than the average GI. We submit this little passage
from one of his letters with the remark that if this is typical
of what the average American soldier thinks concerning world
questions in general, hell is going to pop when he gets out
of the army and back where he can help run tilings. He is going
to come into direct conflict with people like those whose knowl
■ odge of international problems is derived chiefly from idealistic
University courses on the subject.
While the details of this man’s sentiments regarding each
individual problem that he mentions may not necessarily be
typical, we believe that the pessimistic realism, or if you will,
cynicism, is indeed the predominating sentiment among our
fighting men. The postwar gloom of the ’twenties is well re
membered. Another era of postwar cynicism seems well on the
way to becoming a reality. Its burgeoning lacks only the com
pletion of hostilities.
What are we going to do about it? Don't ask us yet. All we
hope to do right now is recognize trends like this one in time
to forecast the mental, moral, and social problems which will
be raised. This is the first step toward any sort of solution.
/J l/Uasdluf. Meiicufe . . ,
“To be an American at this time is a very great responsibility
and one of the greatest opportunities that’s ever been.” With
those words Madame Alfred Jonniaux concluded her address
yesterday morning.
Behind them was an appeal for an enlightened approach to
world problems through the realization that happenings in
one sector of the world affect all other countries, either directly
or indirectly.
It is a theme we have heard and read countless times since
the Jap attack at I'carl llarbor blasted America out of its
isolationism. But it is also a theme we must remember and
repeat over and over again to ourselves and to others who may
have forgotten the lessons of this war.
We were particularly impressed with Mine. Jonniaux's in
sistence on the necessity of becoming actively conscious that
we are all citizens of the world—not one particular nation—
but of a world that grows smaller with each new invention and
improvement.
It is an obvious fact that the United States will be the strong
est world power at the close of World War II. Therefore, it is
our respensibility to change our way of thinking from the pure
nationalistic philosophy to a world consciousness.
“If the United States and the British Commonwealth of
Nations firmly stand together and are determined to keep the
peace no other power can change it—if they pift it above everv
thing else,” Mine. Jonniaux declared. As a great power that
is not only our opportunity, but our responsibility. We must
not slip back into the old ways of thinking, the old desire to
follow policies no matter how they affect other countries, the
old habits which shut our eyes while Germany, Italy, and
Ho-Hum
By ORIN WEIR
Smilin’ Bill Mayther has admit
ted his true love and devotion for
a Sally Flood, who more than in
fatuated the frail youngster at a
recent mixer. We’re glad to see
W?illie is once again hitting his
stride.
Flash: Joanne Holstad and Har
ry Skerry have disagreeances.
Flash: Joanne Holstad and Har
ry Skerry are happy again.
Flash: Joanne Holstad was seen
with Clifford Mallicoat.
Flash: Thousands of panting men
cluster about Joanne Holstad’s
College Side booth.
Flash: Isn’t she!
Robert “Buck” Schott seems to
have taken over the position of
“traveling house to house sales
man” from Jerry “I’m all muscle”
Miller who has settled down with
Gloria Grendfell at the Theta
abode. Wonder if Gloria knows
about Jerry’s Gamma Phi inten
tions this coming Saturday night?
Probably the most "show-going
est” persons on our fair campus
are Robert “I love cinema” Hamil
ton and Jim Bartelt, who seem to
prefer “townies” to most college
women and are all tied up this
coming weekend with half the
young usherettes from Eugene’s
most prominent theater.
By this time the proverbial ques
tion is who will Marilyn Sage, Pi
Phi, choose as her next victim in
romance. Aren’t there any records
left that the girl hasn’t put to
shame ?
Bill Davis of Portland Dental is
once again trying his luck and
personality with Oregon lassies—
this time the weaker sex being
Betty Butler, Gamma Phi. Wonder
which unifrom Bill will wear this
time?
>Ve would like to inform Mardi,
Liz, Claire, and Rusty from Alpha
hall, who were so eager for dates
they filled out applications and
sent them to the lads at the school
of law, that they are herewith in
vited to meet Don Turner at Fen
ton hall any evening after 10:30—
all 480 pounds of them.
Many sweet coeds on our fair
campus will reel with envy comes
this Saturday night when Dick
“Frank Meriwell’’ Wilkens intro
duces his charming Eleanor Obst
from Portland to all the kiddies.
If there is a better combination
we'd like to cast our eyes upon it.
The by now famous “Secret Six’*
who are daily putting their thumbs
on their choices of ideal feminity,
are already planning for a long
hibernation up in them thar hills
once their true identity is revealed.
You'd think their own women
would understand, wouldn’t you ?
A big time has been promised for
all the shingle hangers at the
| school of law dance Saturday night.
; It is rumored that there is a defi
nite shortage of men, but consider
ing the efforts of committee heads
to Shanghai men all looks bright.
Such great names as Gene Conk
lin, John Marshall, John Hathaway,
and George Luoma are the guiding
lights and thus the Persian room
should prove to be quite an active
hub-bub.
Happiest girl on the campus is
"little beaver’’ Wittwer who last
weekend was promised a Phi Kap
pa Psi sweetheart pin from one
PFC Ralph Holzwarth who is now
with the army in France and was
an ASTP here last year. Lucky
girl.
Qlo&alLf. Sp&akuuj,
By BILL SINNOTT _
The fall of Warsaw and Krakow is the important news of
the week. The Red army’s long awaited offensive seems des
tined to present the western powers with a fait accompli—
the Lublin government will be in effective control of all the
territories the Kremlin now concedes to it.
Britain continues to urge Stalin
to recognize the government-in
exile as the true Polish governing
body. The Soviet dictator refuses
to treat with a government headed
by a violent Russophobe, Mikola
jczyk. Perhaps if the more moder
ate ex-premier, Arciszewski, should
return to power Stalin might con
sent to an uneasy merger of the
two rival Polish juntas.
Stalin is trying to win support
for his Lublin puppets by dividing
up the estates of the Polish land
lords among the peasants. The
landlords of Eastern Poland were
Polish while the peasantry are
largely Ruthenian; racially akin to
the Ukranians.
Estates Expropriated
The landlords are permitted to
retain 125 acres; the rest of their
estates are divided up in equal 125
acre allotments. This expropriation
of the landlords would tax the
brains of our law students—even
those of that embryo .solicitor, the
“Great Sahlstrom.”
The life of the prewar Polish
magnates was a feudalistic an
achronism in the twentieth cen
tury. Princess Paul Sapieha paint
ed a striking picture of the Po
tockis and the Radziwill’s in her
book, “Polish Profile.”
Count Alfred Poticki has fled
to Vienna with thirty carloads of
Rembrandt’s and Titian’s, silver
and antique furniture. He was one
of the few Poles who collaborated
with the Nazis. His magnificent
castle of Lancut was used as a
rest home for German big shots.
His conduct differs from that of
his cousin, Prince Czartoryski, who
voluntarily turned over all his pos
sessions to his peasants.
Poles, Intelligent Race
The Poles are among the world's
most charming peoples. They are
an intelligent race with a mercur
ial Slavic temperament. Their tra
gedy is to be located in the heart
of Central Europe between those
two hereditary foes—the Germans
and the Russians.
The Poles cannot forget that
they once saved western Europe
from Turkish rule by Sobieski’s
defeat of the sultan’s army before
Vienna. A hundred years later,
Polish independence ended with the
Third Partition in 1795.
Those two cynical rulers, Fred
erick and Catherine, the Great, ap
peased the pious Maria Theresa
with a share of Poland. “She weeps
but takes her share,” said the
Prussian king of the Austrian em
press.
France Aided Poland
Poland was reconstituted by the
breakup of the Czarist empire.
France aided Pilsudski to extend
Poland’s frontiers hundreds of
miles east of the Curzon line—
Poland’s thenic boundary.
The Polish army was stopped at
Kiev and driven back to Warsaw
by the Red army under Tuchachev
sky who later was purged by
Stalin. Weygand was sent to Po
land by the French and beat the
Russians—the so-called “Miracle
of the Vistula.”
Pilsudski and his “Colonels
Clique” ran Poland until 1939.
They represented the landlords.
Poland signed nonaggression pacts
ivu>Mti iougnt it out on opanisn sou; winle Jap soldiers
tramped through tire Far Hast; while Austria, Czechoslovakia,
and Poland were forced to bow down before the might of a
military machine.
The consciousness that we are citizens of the entire world
must become “as real as everyday life.’’
That is a message worth remembering. For wars and aggres
sion will never be stopped until we accept that ideal and until
our actions prove that we have accepted it.
1 hank you Mine. Jonniaux. We will try hard to remember.
) We will try hard to keep our heads above the sand.
with both Germany and the USSR.
Colonel Beck, the Perpetual for
eign minister, was the crookedest
diplomat in Europe.
Poles Stole Teschen
The Poles assisted at the carv
ing- up of Czechoslovakia in 1938;
receiving as their share, the town
of Teschen that was made famous
by the Earl of Twyfor at Versailles.
Nineteen thirty-nine broughfc“"the
fourth partition.
The Poles have suffered more
than any other people in this war.
Warsaw is 75 per cent destroyed.
Hundreds of thousands of Poles
are working and dying in the pris
on camps of Germany and Russia.
Poland, alone of the occupied coun
tries, failed to produce a Quisling.
Stalin wants a Poland under
Soviet influence. He will not tol
erate a Poland forming a part of
the Cordon Sanitaire that the Al
lies set up after the last war to
insulate the west from the “Red
Virus of Communism.’’ >tEh,,
Buell?)
A new course designed to pro
duce specialists in the field of labor
relations is now a part of the regu
lar curriculum at Rockhurst col
lege. First three years of the new
course will be devoted to liberal
arts work and a degree in econom
ics. Fourth year will be spent in
highly specialized study in the field
of labor relations.
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CENTRAL
PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
10th Ave. at Pearl
Rev. Norman K. Tully, Pastor
Soldiers, Students ad Visitors
Cordially Welcome at Divine
Worship
11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH
Broadway and High
Dr. Vance H. Webster, Pastor
University Group, 9:45 a.m.
and 6:00 p.m.
Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.
Evening Service 7:30 p.m. y
ST. MARY’S EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
13th and Pearl
Rev. E. S. Bartlam, Rector
Services at 8 and 11 a.m.
Canterbury Club, 6 p.m.
Service, Wednesday in Gerlinger,
7:50 a.m.
FIRST CHRISTIAN
CHURCH
1166 Oak Street
Walter J. Fiscus, Pastor
University Classes, 9:45 a.m.
Dr. Victor P. Morris, teacher
Youth Discussion Groups, 6:15 p.m.
Fireside Meetings, 8:45 p.m.
Worship Services, 11:00 a.m.
and 7 :30 p.m.
FIRST
CONGREGATIONAL
CHURCH
490 13th Ave. East
Telephone 4192
Wesley Goodson Nicholson, Minister
Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.
University Group 7:00 p.m.
CENTRAL LUTHERAN
CHURCH
6th and Pearl—Phone 4623
Harold Aalbue, Pastor
Morning Service 11:00 a.m.
Holy Communion last Sunday
each month
L.S.A. Sundays, 7:00
FIRST METHODIST
CHURCH
1165 Willamette St.
Llewellyn O. Griffith, Minister
University Group
9:45 a.m., 7:00 p.m.
Morning Worship, 11:00 a.m.
Wesley House, 1258 Kincaid,
Miss Mary Beth Carpenter
Student Director