NufSed
By CHAS. POLITZ j
it
Katerine Dunham is a very scholarly young woman. She
holds a masters degree in anthropology from the University
of Chicago and presumably is in agreement with Dr. Hutchins
on the books America should read to become intelligent. She
has spent several years in the jungles of Martinique voodooing
with natives, and is an authority on the dance dramas and
tribal customs of all the islands of the Caribbean. She writes
technical tomes for scientific jour
nals on the evolution of the con
volution of the Cuban hip, and lias
lectured over hornrimmed glasses
■—not harlequinated — before the
Anthropology club at Yale.
Last week the very scholarly
Kiss Dunham brought her intellect
to bear upon this city. It was the
•most memorable occasion for scho
lasticism since Eve came romping
through in natal pink searching for
Hood River. Everybody eruditic
■came to the auditorium to see Miss
.Dunham and her associates lecture
on the primitive and modern dance.
Educators and savants with long
flowing manes crouched in front
jrow seats surrounded by refer
ences. There was a fine old air of
the stacks about the whole place.
The Inseparable Intellect
The lights went down. Six gradu
ate assistants in anthropology who
jhad “come over the hill1' to hear
the lecture settled their Phi Bete
Js.eys in their laps. The orchestra
struck tip an overture—very prim
itive with drums. The curtains
parted. Miss Dunham and her in
tellect were squatting Yoga-fash
ion to the rear of the stage behind
a gauze backdrop. She was tapping
out little rhythms on a piece of
teak and gazing intently at one of
her associates who was wiggling
her head off in time with the drum
beats. After a few minutes she
and her intellect arose and came
to the front of the stage.
Rows of large clear professorial
eyes, trained in the observation of
minute details, popped. Here truly
was an intellect to be scrutinized.
It was mounted on a pair of legs
that spoke loudly for themselves
with every movement. The legs
leaped forth from hips that had
even more positive things to say,
and the shoulders were shaped to
refute or emphasize what the hips
had said. All this was stopped by
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Traditions which typify the friendly Oregon spirit have been
observed by students this week as a prologue to Junior Week
end. One Oregon tradition which seems to have been lost in
the shuffle sometime in the past few years but which would
ibe appropriate on a wartime campus is ‘‘Oregon Courtesy,"
the custom of offering rides to and from town to students
who are walking or waiting for buses.
Several years ago it was taken as a matter of course that
those fortunate enough to be able to drive to the shopping
di-'trict would help others out who were not so fortunate by
offering them a ride. It saved many weary hours of waiting
and time which would have been spent walking. No one was
the wor>e for the simple courtesy, and several were aided by so
doing.
Toda\ with the shortage of gas and tires and the crowded
condition of the Kugene buses the old custom would be more
•helpful than ever. If students would cooperate there would be
.uo social stigma attached to either end of the arrangement—
offering or accepting a ride. When townspeople realized what
tin- students were doing in this respect, they toil would co
operate In stopping for students who wore going down town.
( >u many campuses this custom prevails. Certain corners are
designated as waiting places, and when other students pass
those corners, they stop and offer rides to those waiting. The
system works well* at other campuses, and it could again be
effective here. Student cooperation is all that is necessarv.
Prominent corners in Kugene could be chosen as waiting
places. The old ones were across from the Side on the campus
and 11th and Willamette down town.
“Oregon Courtesy" is a small thing in itself hut it is topical
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“Father.I You keep out of this”
Qlabalhf. Sneahieui
By BILL SINNOTT
Benito Mussolini died a traitor’s death. 11 Duce betrayed
■the best interests of his country by his alliance with Hitler.
The ‘ Sawdust Caesar” was the first of the Spenglerian dic
tators to rise to power.
Musso was named for Benito Juarez by his mother and father
who were as leftist as Buell. His childhood was spent in abject
poverty. The future dictator received only the common school
ing given to members of the pro
letariat at that time.
II Duce fled to Switzerland to
escape military service. He slept
under bridges and on park benches.
He met Angelica Balabanoff, a
Russia-Jewish exile, who educated
him. Musso absorbed the doctrines
of Marx from this stimulating
friend of Lenin.
Socialist Editor
Benito returned to Milan and be
came editor of the Socialist paper,
“Avanti." He opposed the war with
Turkey as being imperialistic. He
favored Italian neutrality at the
start of the World War. The
Avanti changed its tune when
Musso was bribed to support the
Allied cause with some of the se
cret funds of the Quai d’ Orsay.
The “Chin” enlisted in the Ital
ian army. He was wounded in 20
places on the backside so we can
only suppose he was one of those
heroes who ran away from Capor
etto.
Mussolini founded the Fascist
party in 1919. Italians were dis
gusted by Orlando’s failure to re
ceive at Versailles all the terri
tories promised Italy by the treaty
of London. 11 Duce stole most of
the Fascist ritual from d'Annunzio,
the flamboyant poet the lover of
Eleanora Duse.
Italian Government
The Italian government had
ceased to govern. The same old
gang changed offices among them
selves. The premiership alternated
from Giolitti to Nitti to Giolitti.
The workers of Milan and Turin
had scared capital by indulging in
the first sit-down strikes of this
century.
The Fascists were subsidized by
the Italian version of the N.A.M. to
put down this attempt by labor to
interrupt production. That Fascism
prevented a Red revolution in Italy
is an exploded myth.
Musso marched on Rome in a
Pullman car when all the plans
for his taking over the government
had been laid. Badoglio wished to
put down the Black Shirt rabble
with the army but the little king
violated his coronation oath and
made Mussolini prime minister in
October, 1922.
New Roman Empire
II Duce governed at first at the
head of a coalition. He barely
weather the Matteotti affair. Af
ter 1925 Musso was supreme. He
made the trains run on time,
chased the beggars off the streets,
and erected buildings which epit
omized the paper-mache facade of
his ersatz New Roman Empire.
The regime was supported by
loans granted by the house of Mor
gan. Italy was a police state. The
credo was “Mussolini is always
right.” Musso tried to revive the
glories of the Roman empire. The
Mussolini forum, the monument to
the virile Roman, was erected.
Autostradas on which few cars
ever ran, were built. The Rex and
the Conti di Savoia plied to New
York.
In 1934, Musso mobilized to pre
vent the Nazi occupation of Aus
tria. The Ethiopian war threw II
Duce into the arms of Hitler. The
intervention in Spain and the “stab
in the back" of June, 1940, led to
the Greek campaign that show#*,
how tinselly the Fascist regime
was. The government had almost
ceased to rule due to the corrup
tion and inefficiency of the bu
reaucracy. II Duce fell in July,
1943.
Favorite Daughter
Mussolini was all chin; small,
vain, and proud of his amorous
prowess. His favorite child was the
red-haired Edda, the daughter of
his Jewish ex-mistress and ghost
writer, Margharita Sarfatti. Since
the death of Count Ciano, Edda has
been consoling herself with one
Marchese Pucci in Switzerland.-^,
If Mussolini had died in May,
1940, the verdict of history would
have been different. He tried to
make a second-rate state into a
world power by the bluster and
bluff of that favorite Italian weap
on, Machievellian diplomacy.
Fascist Italy was a balcony em
pire—II Duce’s bellicose speeches
from the balcony of the Palazzo
Venezia caused his downfall. Italy
has been wrecked for decades sole
ly because of his ego. Mare nostrum
led Musso to the Piazza Quindici
Martiri in Milan.
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