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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1945)
MEN'S EDITION — SECOND SECTION When Jack Oakie encounters Karen Randle, this bewitching screaiW newco/ner, in “That’s the Spirit,’’ Universal’s new comedy-fantasy J Oakie is so thoroughly bewitched that’s the last anyone ever sees ofj him—as a human being. From that point on, he’s “the spirit.’’ ) • • • For Ladies Only Men are the most indispensable things on this earth. Women are nice, too, but men are better. Lately (meaning the last 400 years), women have tried to usurp man's natural place in this world. With the aid of Daisy Mae, she of the muddy peroxide afterwash and the dotted swiss Sears Roebuck prior ities special, they have sabotaged and noce powedered their way into all four of man’s estates. At this very moment they are drafting a special message God, asking for an adequate biological adjustment; and threatening to set Eleanor up in his place should their request be denied. Determination is written all over their eyebrow penciled little maps. Women are determined to wear the pants in the family, .Cuffs or no cuffs. True, women have made some great advances in the modern era—aily fugitive from a sorority house dance will attest to that (providing a living example is still available). True, they have made love a thing it never could have been without them; but they are not satisfied. They want more. Soon women will have men where they want them—behind the sink and atop the scrubbing brush. They will not be content until the males have been organized into local Housemaid’s Knee and Monday's Washday unions with Madame Perkins dictatorial head. Then the women will be able to achieve their lifelong am bitions—staying up all night with their sick grandmothers in dimly lit hotel rooms, fishing for deuces and one-eyed jacks, and consuming unlimited cpiantities of bathtub gin. Men, we cannot stand aloof and pat our pancake makeup complacently. We must rise from our sewing circle and sweater bees, cast off our smocks and chintz housecoats, and put the women back into their proper place . . . beside our mothers-in law, behind the unscraped pile of unwashed breakfast dishes on the unscrubbed sink. And in the future, so as to prevent any reoccurence oi this deplorable situation, let's confine our relations with the nvlon-swathed sex to such academic researches as graveyaid ologv and backseat-onomy. Here, however, let us be unconfined.—C.P. Men Needed fyosi School Sfulit New By JACK CRAIG Someone called the wrong sig nals during junior weekend—as the result, a quarter of a century of Oregon traditions were thrown in the bird bath. What happened ? ? ? Well, er, uh, we didn’t exactly know—was it the old campus or the new ? Why am -I being hacked ? Do freshmen wear rooters lids any more? Is it not possible that an associated men's student body or an Oregon men’s federation might remedy this situation ? Do you remember going to win term’s smoker, or better still do you plan to take in the one not scheduled for spring term—prob ably not. Why? Why can’t the men of Oregon have their tri annual cigars, German band, box ing matches, and grunt and groan contests ? Wc don’t lack manpower or “know how.” Might it not be that an Oregon men’s federation would provide for a planned and organized smoker? You fellows who played in the intramural basketball — were you satisfied ? Who finally won ? Did you have any rules agreed upon by all the teams and players ? Something to think about isn’t it? Why couldn’t an organized men’s student body help out? Did you go to the Butler’s Ball ? Some say it was the best “all round” dance of the year. Wasn't it an all men’s affair — sponsored and activated by men? Couldn’t an organized men’s student body make this successful event an an nual affair? The answers to these questions and many other problems- which directly affect the life and happi ness of men on the Oregon campus COULD be solved through some kind of an organized men’s group on the campus — say, something like the University of Washing ton’s men’s federation. Such a group could be very help ful to returning veterans. An asso ciation of all men would give both veterans and non-veterans a chance to discuss their problems and', at the same time, promote friendly relations between them selves. The men’s smokers and other male social affairs would be spon sored and planned by a men’s association. Fraternity and inde pendent men would find a meeting ground on activities. As the pendulum swings back from a world at war to a peaceful one, a men’s organization would have a definite place at the Uni versity of Oregon. If we start this year, there can be an active or ganization next fall—let’s start the ball rolling soon? An army signal photo platoon processes more than 8,000 prints a week. 1 lr FOR THOSE WEEKEND JAUNTS TAKE ALONG AND ENJOY . . . * Fruit * Olives * Potato Chips * Cold Meats * Salted Nuts Elliott's Grocery Corner 13th & Patterson | Draft Still Beckons, Food Shortages Will Decrease WASHINGTON, May 10.—(AP)—The government notified its civilians today they must remain in virtually full war harness until Japan is beaten, but abolished immediately the racing ban and midnight curfew on entertainment places. “Some reconversion to civilian goods production was promised at once by War Mobilization Director Fred M. Vinson. But he laid down the policy that nearly all the economic controls imposed for the two-front war—ra tioning, high taxes, wage and price ceilings, many manpower and pro duction controls- should be main tained in force until the last shot is fired in the Pacific. Vinson Sees Invasion Vinson warned at a news confer ence of a dire struggle still ahead, predicting that Japan would not surrender unconditionally without a “successful and complete inva sion’’ of her homeland. This means that “a great part" of the war workers force must stay on the job and that munitions pro duction will finally stabilize at not less than two-third of the present huge armament rate, Vinson stat ed, in his first meeting with the press since he became director of the office of war mobilization and reconversion. The army will reduce strength by 1,300,000 men in the next year, but slowly at first. The navy will not cut, he said. Draft calls will con tinue to be heavy and deferments for men under 30 “will continue to be relatively few.’’ Job Picture Good Probably 1,500,000 war workers will lose their jobs in the next six months, Vinson predicted, perhaps. 3,000,000 more in the following half year. But reconversion should soak up most of them, leaving 2,500,000 unemployed in twelve months com pared with today’s 1,000,000 job less. On the optimistic side of the pic ture, he forecast: A few new passenger cars com ing off assembly lines in six to nine months, an immediate start on moderate numbers of refrigerators and washing machines: and an in crease in gasoline rations perhaps amounting to 50 per cent for A-card drivers; just when, he could not say. Commercial users, and perhaps B card motorists, will get an increase too. In a report released at the news conference, entitled “the war— phase two," Vinson gave the war production board encouragement to start gradually its relaxation of in dustrial controls as soon as arma ment cutbacks permit “Generally speaking," he stated, “materials and manpower no longer pre-empt ed for war will be freed for civilian production.” The nation's sober reception of the V-E day news convinced him, he reported, that the people “will keep their feet on the ground in the try ing days to come.” FOR MOTHER'S DAY DINNER BROILERS No Points Needed 49c per pound Eugene Packing Co. 675 Willamette Phones 38 and 39 CORRECT FOR COMMENCEMENT IN 1860 ——- ^ This member of a Senior Class of that year is fashion-perfect for the occasion. Top-hats were sine-qua-non, and voluminous neckcloths muffled the spotless linen. Co-education was becom ing fashionable, too. That year, 1860, civil war was looming on the country’s horizon. College campuses blazed with patriotism. Railway Express was ready, at the first summons, to put its services at the nation’s command. Today, America is fighting a world-wide war. So, to help all concerned, please do three simple things with your 1945 home packages and baggage: Pack them securely — address clearly and adequately— avoid abbreviating state names.