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2). Rao-leuzlt
The mourning which the death of Mr. Roosevelt has cast
ujion this world is not that of a nation nor even of a race, for
we can rightlv say that lie belonged to no one country nor
to a people.
Mr. Roosevelt holds the peculiar and singular position of
now belonging not only to the ages, but also to the peoples of
(fie entire world, for in the present struggle lie has made of
4iimself a force among the Allied nations not lightly to be for
gotten or replaced. His death, coming at such an inopportune
moment, will probable increase his stature in the world as it
cotdd never have been increased before. Mr. Roosevelt left a
scene of immediate impending significance which had been
ju imarilv shaped and directed by himself and which will reveal
in its outcome, the results of his absence.
Rut the sorrow of the world and the particular sorrow of
the universitv student is somewhat different. For us, who see
the flag flying at half-mast over Johnson hall, a moving force
Inis passed from the American scene. It is not for ns to turn
with trepidation to the results of Mr. Roosevelt's death upon
the San Francisco conference nor upon the postwar conditions
of the domestic front, vital as they shall be.
For the majoritv of us something of the tremendous surge
of faith which shook the nation at the 1932 election of Mr.
Roosevelt has always associated itself in our minds with the
figure of the president. Although the depression continued for
sometime afterwards, there are few who do not feel from per
sonal experience that his entrance Upon the scene initiated a
ik w period in American history.
And because we have become so accustomed to living within
that period and have seldom considered ourselves as a part of
anc other, the abrupt termination of it has left among us an
atmosphere of unrealitv. W e have few recollections which do
not include the figure of Mr. Roosevelt. Because of that, our
reaction is probably more personal and less political. We are
aware of the extinction of a tremendous personality and a bril
liant mind from the background of our lives and the American
scene assumes without this perspective a more alien outline.
Historv will probable sav of him that he died for his country.
Jk was a man who employed to exhaustion all the. mental and
spiritual powers at his control in carrying forth his purposes,
lie risked his life in prosecuting the present war. and if his
phssical capacitv was less than that of spirit and mind, Mr.
Roosevelt is perhaps to be admired the more.
W e shall alwavs remember him with greater emotion than
wc shall any other president for Mr. Roosevelt’s administration
bus spanned the period of our childhood. Probably w.e shall
never be able to judge him in his particular historical position
because of this personal association.
MctffSta Gittn Jlaude
• • •
A professor is expected, as everybody knows
To observe a staid solemnity of habit
A decorum which clings about him everywheie he goes
And makes him seem an academic Babbitt
But the individualists
Who stud the UO lists
Have more eccentric aspects than a gang of anarchists.^
K. Christian (?) Lesch is noted for his stock of knife-edged
quips
And Maestro Kratt for his conducting antics
Prof Ernst has always got that monstrous grin upon his lips
And Handsome Hoyt attracts the gal romantics
While Ken Shumaker’s caps
And Cal's New-Dealer traps
Are justly famous, as are Moll s and 1 ownsend s goateed
maps.
But one fact vou should ponder as you laugh at all these lads
They rank among the ablest in the college
Their striking traits are genuine and not theatric fads
And each dispenses quite his share of knowledge
So if you Want to be
Renowned scholastically
Go shave your dome, make bars your home, and wear your
jeans to tea.
—HATFIELD McCOY
Oam fo*. fcneakfjGAi
By TED HALLOCK
It has been one helluva time since I last wrote this thing.
Spring of ’44 to be precise. And date lined from England.
Usually it has been about music, so it still is.
Our friends the Britons don’t know much about jazz. Most
of them don’t that is. The demand created initially by members
of the eighth air force, stationed in that country, had a great
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deal to do witn ine pressing oi
commercially popular music, and a
little hot.
Their recording companies,
mostly subsidiaries of American
firms: viz. English Brunswick,
Decca, His Master's Voice, use
masters done in this country and
■shipped across, in spite of wartime
transit conditions.
Each Eugene town of Eugene
size, maintains what is known as
a Rhythm club, sponsored by one
or more members of the truist Hot
Jazz clique, to spread the good
two-beat-word against their less
fortunate fellows: Oxford recluse,
etc.
They Try Hard
They don’t always have the ab
solutely correct jazz data in mind.
Some of them think Billie Holiday
a man, others that Bunny Berigan
plays (not played) tenor saxo
phone. But they try, and I admire
them for that.
Jazz on the continent, during the
period when the Germans held
France, was seemingly untouched
by the short-lived Heinie occupa
tion. Hugues Panassie and Made
laine Gautier, in Paris, continued
to broadcast nightly at 10 p.m.,
over the Calais (German con
trolled) radio, beamed short wave
at us in England. Panassie also
managed to keep the French swing
label in business, finding, god
knows where, sufficient talent to
keep the Wehrmacht in Rue de
QlobaMu Sfiealzina
By BILL S1NNOTT
litany observers believe that the
approaching San Francisco confer
ence is premature—that it is fore
doomed to failure because of Kus
»*i-»n dissatisfaction. The Soviet I'n
lo>:i has demanded tliat the Lublin
government be represented. Brit
i and the I nited States have
refused to permit the attendance
«rf a in delegates from a govern
ment they regard as being under
•complete communist control.
Stalin also ' .wishes -that no
it. aendments bo made at the con- i
iecence to the Dumbarton Oaks
agreement. Senator Vandenbnrg
and many of the smaller powers >
J'ive formulated amendments to
at.'engtheu the Oaks proposals;
especially in an endeavor to weak-,
on the dominance of the Big Three
in the world security organization
to be set up.
The Yalta conference was badly
mismanaged. Many believe secret
agreements were made that will
eventually be revealed when the
time is ripe.
At Yalta Stalin asked for 16
votes for the Soviet Union in order
to counteract the influence pos
sessed bv the British empire with
six votes and the 21 votes of the
American republics that the Krem
lin believes are under the thumb of
our state department.
The giving of these votes to Rus
sia; one each for the Russian,
Ukranian. and White Russian
Soviet Socialist Republics, was
Roosevelt’s idea, not Stalin's. The
f
Soviet leaders are wrathy because
our state department managed to
put the onus of blame for the three
vote proposal on the Soviet Union :
instead of our executive.
We are giving up our right to
have three votes. The smaller coun- !
tries and British public opinion
have been stirred by this further
attempt at power politics by the
Soviet Union.
Whether we like it or not we J
have to face the fact that the |
Soviet Union is one of the two
great world powers. Russia is the
dominant state both in Europe and
Asia. Her position after the war
will be beyond the dreams of even
the most rabid Fan-Slavist of the j
old czarist empire.
(Please turn to page three)
Grace disc shops asking for Lily
Marlene in E Flat.
Swiss Swinging, Too
During the English stay I did
manage to receive, through un
orthodox channels, a few letters
from Jonny Simmen, who had been
a record collecting chum before the
mess. He is a Zurich resident, a
fine hot fan, and president of the
Swiss Jazz society. Seems, some
how, he wangled a few Louis and
Ellington masters through Lisbon;
so the Swiss were also fairly up on
current American pops. Ellington’s
“Chelsea Bridge,’’ “Perdido,” etc.
were his raves.
Records are expensive as hell in
England. Five shillings four pence
for the top four labels. Which is
one stone ten cents per. But worth
the money. If you went through
each town systematically, you could
find items that had never been re
leased in this country, or that had
been out of print for ten years.
Example: found at least thirty
Holidays that had been originally
issued here on Vocalion and were
now unobtainable.
For the purist in jazz, England
holds more, with its taste and se
lection as to what would be re
leased on records, than does our
own country. Upon return I found
labels like Apollo, Savoy, Keystone,
Asch, etc., all featuring men who
were great, but with so many tunes
that I was afraid to go ahead and
buy in without spending much time
listening.
Best to Be Wary
Because now jazz has become
“the” thing. The fad we knew it
would. Most of us would, therefore,
rather buy old tunes again, Mugg
sy, Jelly Roll, Bessie, Jimmie
Noone, than experiment with rec
ords that are obviously put out to
snare the unwary into buying for
names, and that alone.
It isn’t that the finders of jazz
are or were snobs; nor that they
all claim (though some do) that
jazz died when Bix did; just that,
this sudden inflation of our music
has done something. Perhaps we
need another raccoon coat, hip
flask, Fitzgerald, era to bring the
music back as folk song, which
it is.
I don’t know, myself. I’m a
stranger on the campus. Just
thought I’d tell you about some
stuff I d picked up. I’ll see you
again maybe.
Ur Alert
By SHUBERT FENDRICK
Three special memorial btoari
:asts will be given for President
itoosevelt this morning over
CORE. They are as follows:
8:15 to 8:45 a.m., a special mem*
srial broadcast.
9:15 to 10:15 a.m., a memorial
service from the St. Patrick cath
edral.
10:45 to 11:30 a.m., a memorial
service from the Christ church of
Philadelphia.
A special musical tribute will be
presented over K O R E Sunday
evening from 8 to 9. Watch the
radio section of your paper for
other programs.
Erich Leinsdorf, newly returned
to civilian life after an honorable
discharge from the army, will con
duct the “Cleveland Orchestra"
program Sunday from 4 to 5 over
Mutual.
Sam Hayes, whose newcast can
be heard each afternoon over Mu
tual at 5, hit the road April 11 for
a lengthy tour. He plans to visit
California, Oregon, Washington,
and Nevada, and he is probably
scheduled to be in Eugene on Tues
day, May 15.
Rudolf Firkusny, brilliant j^uug
Czech pianist, will play Martina’s
Second Piano Concerto with the
Philadelphia orchestra under Eu
gene Ormandy’s direction over
CBS this afternoon from 2 to 3.
The program will also include
Creston’s “Chant of 1942” and the
symphonic poem, “The Pines of
Rome" by Respighi.
An all Broadway cast, headed by
Roy Fant, now starring in the
Shubert (some other Shubert) pro
duction of “Dark of the Moon,”
will present an original drama on
Grand Central station this morn
ing from 10 to 10:25 over CB3T''
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