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Oregon® Emerald LOUISE MONTAG Editor ANNAMAE WINSHIP Business Manager MARGUERITE WITTWER Managing Editor GLORIA GRENFELL Acting Advertising Manager JEANNE SIMMONDS News Editor MARILYN SAGE, WINIFRED ROMTVEDT Associate Editors BILL WALKENSHAW Acting Sports Editor MARYAN HOWARD Assistant Managing Editor MARYANN THIELEN Assistant News Editor JANET WHELAN Executive Secretary SHIRLEY PETERS Chief Night Editor ANITA YOUNG Women’s Page Editor JACK CRAIG World News Editor BETTY BENNETT Music Editor Editorial Board Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Jack Craig, Ed Allen, Beverly Ayer Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and -43nal exam periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.__ « • » One. off the QhamfU&nA. The “ladies of the press,” who did most of the work on the Oregon Daily Emerald last year have won deserved recognition from the Assoctated Collegiate Press. The All-American honor rating signifies that the 1944-45 Em erald was among the best of the college and university papers in the nation* *- * Although thhencting has been awarded to the Emerald a num ber of times, the staff may feel a special distinction for maintain ing the standard last year. During the war the Emerald had its own manpower shortage and frequently was faced with a lack of newsworthy activity. As the work fell to a smaller number of people, those people were -overworked. This year the campus daily will be expected to keep up the records of All-American ratings. Possibly competition will be stiffer, and judgment will be more critical. But the fact that last year’s staff was able to carry on the high standards will encourage this year’s Emerald workers to do their best. We congratulate the staff of 1944-45. Their record goes on the list of Oregon's great. 'Wan.th \WcUtuuj tyosi. . . Tabling of plans for the revival of the canoe fete at Junior Weekend this vear is another reason why Ducks cannot expect to see the so-called “normal year,” for a while yet. Only an oc casional student now at the University was here before the war began to take its toll of peacetime activities, tradition, and atmo sphere. One of the best-remembered of these events was the canoe fete on the mill race. Even before the 1945 Junior Weekend celebration had ended, many students had it in their minds that the canoe fete would be revived next time. Students should not mind waiting a while for the traditional spring fete. The State Highway Commission plans to let contracts for the construction of the new super high wav between ludkins point and Broadway. Since the mill race crosses Broadwav and Franklin boulevard, which is part of Highway 99, the University will cooperate with the highway commission in improvement of the mill race site. 'I'lie project was reviewed, and the educational activities manager was directed to add to the $15,000 already set aside, as funds are available from the budget. The money will be used to fill the old channel, construct bleachers on the south side of the race and a stage on the north side, and for general improvement. All this means that the mill race will be a much more attractive site for the next canoe fete. Q-Jj ftCis&L • r « Journalists sav there is nothing- so ohl as yesterday s news paper. hut Oregon lias something that ages even faster than its daily. Signs posted in prominent campus spots advertise all forms of activitv—twistie sales, political campaigns, drives of various sorts and numbers of dances, lectures and other entertainment. Thev have performed their function when the activity has been completed. Nothing is quite so bleak as a rain-streaked, warped piece of cardboard announcing a past event. W hen out-dated posters are left in place, the value of such advertising declines sharply. After a time, we remember that they're old stuff and don't bother to read them. When a new event is announced, the sign pulicity is lost on us because we re gard each sign as an old stand-by. Such advertising is supposed to be removed as soon after the affair as possible. 'This duty should he assigned to same specific committee. And the job should be complete. Way BacJz When ... Oregon Explained an Idaho Grid Victory By TRUDIE CHERNIS and Dorothy Habel Thirty Years Ago "Guild Hall, the ‘little theatre’ in Johnson hall, was formally opened by the presentation of Jerome K. Jerome’s ‘The Passing of the Third Floor Back,’ given by members of the Drama Guild.” Front page criticism ran: “The wonderful inspiration of Mr.- Jer ome shown brightly through the slow-moving and creaking mach inery of amateur production. The acting abounded with affec tation and over-long dramatic pauses which intended to allow the moral to sink in. Instead, as a rule, so much time was given that it generally sank through and kept the audience in a state of suspense hoping against hope that the actors would remember the line at last.” * * * Sports: "The Oregon-Idaho foot ball rally has made its plans for celebration. We will have the usual pajama parade with prizes for original costumes—Villard Will be the scene of festivities.” A must in every college girl’s wardrobe: “Smart suits with con vertible collars of velvet or fur trimmed, made of poplin, serge, mixtures, and gabardine. Also new coats of corduroy, plush, and mix tures. Come see.” They were healthy, too. “The girls have infinitely better feet, which condition is due largely to the more reasonable type of shoes worn by the women of the west,” a P.E. instructor said. A far cry from the Dutch shoes of today. Twenty Years Ago The University of Montana im posed the following regulations for thier freshmen: “Girls who wish to display the pictures of men shall do so only on condition that these pictures be pinned to the curtain and that said pictures be labelled with the correct name, age and relationship.” All the better to yell with-“6,000 megaphones, presented by movie actor Harold Lloyd, were distri buted to the rallying Ducks for the traditional Oregon-Idaho football game.” Made of yellow cardboard, the sides were filled wth the line up of the teams, place for sum mary, and a large picture of Lloyd himself. * * * Taken from a two column ad in the Emerald: “Surprise the Folks —make Phi Beta Kappa. The Wahl pen has a big ink capacity, and won’t fail you—its fluent easiness will boost your grades, its slim, trim shapliness will match that golden key.” The Ducks did loose the Oregon Idaho game that year, but Em erald sports writers set everything. all right with the real reason, as printed in their headline: “IN ABILITY TO SCORE IS HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR DEFEAT BY IDAHO’S TEAM SATUR DAY.” Ten Years Ago The Emerald ran an advertising column with Polly as its star. To quote: “Polly found just the right footwear at ‘Grahams’ for the football game. Black or brown slacks is what she calls them and they are flexible and just the right weight before the heavy winter brogues. Polly had a hard time choosing between the brown $6 pair which were trimmed in seal and can be worn in the Prince of Wales pattern or tied around the ankle or the more popularly priced, $3:50 black suede or brown elk with saucy flaps and the new trouser crease over the vamp.” * * * Headline news: COUNCIL FINES NINE FRATERNITIES $140 to eliminate “dirty” rushing. * * * Always in the spirit, the Oregon yell team dreamed up this new “popular and tricky yell”: Team Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Team Oshowee Whiskewee OOOOregon! The Plot Sickens iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin By BEX GUNN One day, a few years ago, a man sat in front of a typewriter in a hotel room in San Francisco and recorded the fact that it was cold. He spent 3000 words saying that and that alone. Later, the 3000 words became a chapter in a book, and the book became a best seller. How did he do it? A cold room merely as such holds no suspense, no conflict, no drama, no interest —nothing that professional writ ers consider necessary for money making copy. Tiie Props Put a corpse in the room—yes, we have something now—put a knife in the corpse, a cigarette with lipstick on it in an ash tray; give the corpse staring eyes with constricted pupils. There’s the skeleton of a plot. After being introduced to the suspects, the police, the master sleuth, etc., the writer leads you into a dozen false clues, then blithely beats you over the head with the solution. But Saroyan didn't do that. He just said it was cold. How did he make money? The Reasons There are many possible rea sons. Maybe the book got first rate advertising. Maybe the chap ter was just a chaser for stronger stuff. Maybe the public had an off month. All this might be, but there was one other factor. Saroyan not only said some thing, he felt something. When he said it was cold, he had an honest desire to convey that feeling to other people. He mentioned how hard and brittle the typewriter keys felt to his fingers, how cold the copy looked on the cold paper, how the gray light in the room had a cold color. The Effect When imaginative readers finish ed the chapter, they felt cold. Willie had recreated the morn ing and the room. Since that time, he has made a (Please turn to page sezen) Clips and Comments By CARLEY HAYDEN At Stanford, tryouts for the Farm’s first peacetime gaieties are occupying the time of vets in civies, AST’s in khaki and NRO’s in blue. The theme, “A Girl In Every Port,” will feature com pletely original music, dancing, and skits. The navy will have an op portunity to act themselves in the musical based around naval exper iences in various ports. The loss of his left arm in a minefield explosion on a battle field in France last winter hasn’t stopped Bobby Ravera, gritty ex-doughboy, from playing a flashy game in the University of Nevada backfield. He broke through the Idaho Marine line for a 42 yard gain after catching a punt. Transportation problems didn’t worry a pretty coed at the Univer sity of British Columbia. She took them in their stride, and her favor ite horse takes her in its stride to classes. The artswoman sailed right on past rain-soaked students in block-long lines in the recent but shortage. * * * Football forums are sponsored by the Syracuse Daily Orange for the interest of ardent pigskin fans. Movies bring out teehnieal points of the game and sport announcers answer queries. From the University of B. C., maybe the Greeks have a word for it, but the staff of the regis trar’s office was left down right speechless last week at the height of the registration roar. A soft-voiced, would-be coed argued for an hour that she wanted- to enroll at the university without attending lectures. She planned to take six units of music off the campus but was “slightly worried about three junior matriculation sups.” “And why do you want to attend university?” tactfully inquired the I registrar’s office. “Because” reasoned the girl, “I | want to join a sorority.” A University of Southern Cali fornia sophomore was persuaded 'to enter a beauty contest at the last minute and' triumphantly emerged the winner over 50 con testants. Better late than never! J** * * * All photographs made by the army, navy and marine signal corps of Ernie Pyle during his ser (Please turn to page seven) Telling the Editor About Oregon Spirit Dear Editor and University of Oregon men. Rah, Rah. Several following quotations have surprised “Old Line” Oregon backers in the past few days. The first quotation: “was dis graceful. I know that it was none of the University students who were booing and hooting through out the game. I would be ashamed to admit I was a student of this school if it were.” Now isn’t that nice. May I sug gest we all take lollypops to Cor-^ vallis this weekend and sing T' sweetly, “I love you.” The lady with the sore ears ob viously hasn't been to many Ore gon State contests which are an important factor in the return of many Oregon veterans. She was probably referring slightly to our “bilged” sailors at the Idaho game. The Emerald editorial gently curtsied, straightened up its lace cuffs, booties and emitted, “We should have had a separate section for them.” Would that have solved the problem with the Torpedo juice” boys ? ? ? ? We should have escort ed them out on their ears. I think even I would have felt strong enough to help, and that’s unusual. The exodus wouldn’t have been new to Oregon spirit. And Oregon is famous for it’s spirit. I know. I’ve seen enough of it purchased. The second quotation: . . and since the men don’t dress up . . . the natural effect is that the qual ity of their behavior is lower than it ordinarily would be.” ' All the males step and think. With all these beautiful women around the campus, it’s , hard (Please turn to page seven)