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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1945)
Brecon If 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 vdA final exam periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene. Oregon._._ SmcuusifuMoei Style ... Oregon coeds have; won a small victory in the field of equal rights for women. By the ruling of all-campus Social Chairman Louise Goodwin, coeds will wear campus clothes to football games. This means that the girls will be able to enjoy a game as com fortably as their casually-dressed male compatriots, and they’ll show a lot more spirit when they aren’t worrying about a run in ■their last pair of 51 gauge rayons. It was rather a nice custom for the girls to dress up for the games. Undoubtedly they looked more trim and sophisticated. But a football game is not the place to emphasize style and beau ty, and the girls looked a little foolish all dressed up when the men slouched around in their dirty cords and rooters lids. With the rainy season evidently getting ofif to a roaring start this week, the ruling came at a timely point. It s much easier to be rally-rally when you’re wearing wooden shoes and a reliable raincoat than it is when you ve hauled out the precious fur coat and rationed toeless shoes. Now that they've been freed from the obligation'to look deco rative, perhaps the coeds will even learn what football is all •about. Student ta Student . . • American students, with the exception of veterans who have seen the destruction of war, may find it difficult to realize the •difficulties which fellow students in Europe and China have had and will have in gaining their education. Their educational institutions are demolished; they have no hooks or equipment; they have little money, and many of them are ill. This is only a sketch of the situation in many countries. University of Oregon students have a chance to help. On Monday the World Student Service fund drive opens on the campus. Its goal is $2000, which is less than one dollar a person. Considering the endless use for money thus raised and that stu dents have not been approached in the war chest drive, the cam pus drive should go far over the top. The World Student Service fund means direct relief for stu dents. Needy students, rather than receiving money, are given books, equipment, and medical supplies, and medical and study centers are maintained for them. No other agency operating in the United States collects money for that purpose. See your living organization WSSF representative next week. Rally ^Jally , . . We crticised them and they made no excuses. Outmaneu vered bv the OSC rooting section in last Saturday's game at Cor vallis, the rail v squad is exerting time and effort to prevent a re currence of this unhappy situation. The essence of organized enthusiasm at a football game, how ever, is not solelv the result of the people in white down in front. With 2800 odd students and a highly localized campus life. Ore gon can produce no valid excuse for a poor rooting section. A varsitv need not be a consistent winner to expect the support of its student body. Wehfoots would have it known that spirit and loyalty are abounding at Oregon—how better can this be demonstrated than by the appearance and performance of the cheering section at events which will bring outsiders to Eugene? Coming up with an "in addition," the rally squad has planned the presentation of card stunts between the halves by the student section. Results of this post-war innovation will only be deter mined bv the cooperation of everyone involved. As the funds necessarv have been appropriated by the ASUO, students are re quested not to confiscate or in any way damage the cards given them. l!!ll!lllllnil!llllllllll!lll!nill!!l!!llllllllllllinil!!!ll]ll!llllllll!l!llllllll!!IUIIUIUllllll!llllinil'll Powder Burns By REX GUNN . Trouble, trouble, boil and bub ble. Shakespeare’s witches brewed a highly successful batch for Mac Beth and someone or something has been stacking up a surplus ever since. A good batch of it must look like gumbo mud. It is sticky, messy, and usually you don’t see it till you step in it. The only place trouble sounds good is in Hawaii. They call it pilikia (pee-lee-kee-ah). Hawai ians can make anything sound nice. In the Beginning Trouble started originally when Eve had to borrow Adam's rib for the mere purpose of existing. Adam probably resented it because all his offspring do. Since the end of the war, even producers of radio programs have gone out of their way to stir up that most basic of all troubles, man versus woman. Tune in any weekday night to ay radio station with a major net work hookup. You can’t escape “The Better Half” or “Leave it to the Girls” or etc. It’s downright discouraging. Progress ? As a nation, we harnessed atomic energy, but we have yet to comer the reason why women wear fruit salads for hats, and the gals come back by asking why men wear hats at all. This fore-mentioned program, “Leave it to the Girls,” is a defin ite threat to our fondest prejudice. They turn loose these four gals headed by Paula Stone on one poor hapless man who is supposed to answer them all. Lucky Adam The four gals are hand-picked from that special group known as ambidextrous (career women plus wives all in one package). The male usually gets complete ly buried in the snow storm. That probably starts trouble in millions of homes all over the country where the wife might have other wise forgotten that hubby did this, and hubby might have for gotten that wifey did that if a radio program hadn’t suddenly re minded them both of the amazing fact that they belong to different species. Adam didn't have to listen to radios. Losing a rib isn’t the worst thing that can happen to a man. We Ring Bell (Continued (rom page one) school or some students had stolen it. W. F. G. Thacher, professor of English and advertising, admitted to Bryant that he had been on the campus for 25 years and didn’t know where it came from. “I do remember the iron woman though, he said. “It .was a statue over at OSC that the Oregon students used to paint every year—one year they took a truck over and brought it back. I don’t know where is it now.” The old story that the victory bell was stolen from the state col lege was never once mentioned by any of the interviewees in ’39. Another story that came out of the athletic office is that the bell was once on some historic train or something. That some generous benefactor secured the bell and sent it to the student body was another unverified rumor. Continuing his campus canvass for the history of the bell, Bryant stumbled across Bill Kirtley, color ful caretaker of McArthur court at the time, who came through with the information that Emerald re porters had searched for weeks to find. Apparently nobody has sus pected "Kirt” who would be one of the best authorities. For a short time, Bryant Clips and Comments By CARLEY HAYDEN At least 19 states and one terri tory are represented by the navy blue on the campus at Oregon State college. California is the home state to over 50 percent of the NROTC students, while Wash ington and Oregon run a poor second and third. *• * * The remark of the week came from a football-minded Bob Stevens at OSC. It seems as though Bob was speaking of traditions, organizations, etc., when a bat flew through the rafters. Amid the voluminous squeals of coeds Bob cracked, “Say, we could use him to carry the ball in Saturday’s game!’’ * * Jk Ella Raines, Universal star, sounded the keynote for the War Chest drive opening on the campus of the University of Utah. The combined quota for the university is $1000, or 35 cents from each student. The money collected for smininniiiiHiuiiiiiiiiimmiHiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiMimtiimiiiiiiHiiiiiniiMiiimiiiiiitiiiirinitHiri ^leUinp the- Cditox, About the Emerald Dear Editor: I read with much interest of the honor accorded to the Emerald and its staff in the All-American rating of the National Scholastic Press Association. Congratulations on the merited recognition for the eighth year. It is a splendid achievement to win the honor and no doubt a greater honor to con tinue to merit the rating in suc cessive years. All good wishes for continued success in the publication of an outstanding and truly constructive college paper. Sincerely yours, EARL SNELL Governor the World Students fund is sent to Europe and Asia for use in re building the destroyed universities and to provide supplies for the schools. * ifS £ wfth the “little brown jug” as its theme, Idaho’s first home coming in two years got off to a spectacular start Friday with a rally highlighted by a fireworks display behind their memorial gymnasium. i'fi * * The Debating Society at Stan ford university is examining in speeches and discussion the pros and cons of the advisability of peace and of economic stability. •fc “Zombie Fireside” was the theme of Washington hall’s Satur day evening fireside. Voodoo drums, tropical undergrowth, and medicine men entertained the dancers. Tropical punch was ser ved from a "jungle trading post,” wljile couples in jeans, Hawaiian shirts, and tropical dresses danced to recorded music. •••• • . . •. • *• A • - * * * Homecoming weekend activi-. ties definitely will be photo graphed by a Life magazine photographer, according to the co-chairman of the homecoming committee at Indiana State uni versity. Life editors expressed the desire for pictures covering the entire Homecoming pro gram. Special emphasis will be placed on the decoration, pep session and the crowning of the queen and her court. • * * * Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault stressed the importance of vigi lance by every person as insurance against future wars in a speech before the student body at Louis iana State university recently. thought he had solved the mystery The victory bell went on record as a piece of junk bought by the 1933 rally committee. Here is Kirtley’s story as told to Bryant in ’39. “It was the year Oregon State tied SC with their ‘Iron men’ (1933) that we got the victory bell,’’ Kirtley said. “I helped paint and mount it downstairs in the court. The same year that State tied SC we took it to Portland for the State game, and we beat ’em too.” “That was the first, time the vic tory bell had ever been used, and it got a good initiation after that outstanding game up there.” “It’s the Order of the O’s job to keep the bell, but they didn’t do such a hot job, and several times I had to hide it. They would just leave it lie around here. “Somehow the Idaho football team got the bell in their trunk and had it in Portland before we could find out where it went. “We had looked over their equipment when they left and we couldn’t see it, and finally some one found a drayman who remark ed about how heavy one trunk had gotten since he unloaded it. The Idaho fellows said it was just full of wet clothes, but when the dray man heard that the bell was miss ing he saw the connection and the Portland police recovered it up there. “Another narrow escape for the green and yellow bell was in '38 at the California game in Portland. The bell was left on the field and if it hadn’t been for the football team the bell would be in 'Berk eley now. They had it packed in their trunk when our boys walked in and took it.” Two weeks after Bryant pub lished Kirtley's story, “Well We’ll Be Ding Donged, Victory Bell is a Pile of Junk,” Gib Schnitzer’s story came out. Gib, whose father owned the Alaska Junk Company at one time, said that Aaron M. Frank of Meier and Frank, Portland department store, bought a bronze bell from the Alaska Junk company to give to the winner of the Oregon-Ore gon State football game in 1933. Oregon won the game and also the bell. The two bells couldn’t be the same because Bill Kirtley helped paint his bell before the game in Portland where Oregon beat OSC and won Frank’s bell. Besides, one was a bronze bell and one was an iron bell. The lemon and green bell which has been used the past few years is iron. Where is the bronze bell that was won in Portland? In ’39 the Sigma Chi’s revealed that they had a bell, but did they have the bronze bell ? No, they had^ a bell that they stole from Oregon State in 1914. It was stolen by Chris Maddock and two fresh men after a football game between Oregon and OSC. This bell was on campus until 1926, when the Sigma Chis took it to Portland. After they got it up there they couldn’t get it back safely so they hid it in an alum’s basement. It was returned to Eugene after Oregon’s game with Washington in ’38. When questioned at the Side Thursday, Bob "Smitty” Smith didn’t even know that the Sigma Chis were supposed to have a bell. Another clue as to the hiding place of the bronze bell was the Pi Kap’s bell, but they said they bought it during the Bryant search in November of '39 from a logging camp in Coos county Bryant discovered that the Uni- - versity of Oregon had three bells and claims on a fourth. At present, the location of one bell is known. Where are the other three? Perhaps some of the "eager frosh” will uncover the se cret strongholds of the missing bells ?