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r “We are caught between two
worlds,” one veteran stated, “the
world of grim reality and sheer
cold brute force and the world of
nice abstract utopian plans and
dreams. It is only natural that the
transition we have to make will
take time and require outside
understanding.”
We are the vets, the men who
fought and endured to make places
like the University of Oregon pos
sible, along with hundreds of
other things we <, took for granted
before we went away.
Some of us have had a tougher
time than others. Some of us have
fought the battles of the barracks
and office while others have faced
the enemy, but all of us have done
our best, what We wanted to do
or what We knew we had to do.
Job to Be Done
We feel no keen sense of group
problem of adjustment, no deep
feeling of conscious bravado. We
as a group are still the same fel
lows who left our schools, homes,
friends, and relatives to go out to
do a job that had to be done.
Some of us were good soldiers
in war. Some were poor, and by
the same token some of us will Be
good civilians in peace, and some
will not.
We are not different in our basic
ideas no matter how confused We
may seem, even to ourselves at
times.
We want to be accepted normal
ly and naturally When we return
just as though we had been off for
a summer vacation and are now
returning to another type of life.
Yes, we have our problems and
worries. Who hasn't?
Civilians in Uniform
The vast majority of US were
civilians in uniform, and now we
don’t want to be thought of as
soldiers in civilian clothes. We are
not just veterans, not just re
turnees, but we are Sam Jones and
Bill Smith, Americans.
Most of us want to make a suc
cess of college. So does everyone
else in school.
We represent no group problem
in ourselves, but only in the eyes
of others. We are individual,
damned individual, and we think
that we will remain so.
To express the feelings of each
of us individually m any one
article would be futile and as.
much a waste of time as tryiiig to
analyze us as a group.
Present-Day* Confusion
We are essentially just as we
were before we went into service,
perhaps some of us are a little
more confused, and all of us are
wiser. You will have to bear with
our confusion as you bear with
the-confusion found almost every
where else at the present time.
Some of Us Will succeed. Some
will fail, as some succeeded and
some failed in military life, but the
burden of the individual rests not
with the group but with that indi
vidual alone and with whomever
he Wants to share it or who is
willing to share it with him.
As a summation let me say that
to judge one Veteran or make one
veteran’s problem relative to all
the other veterans or even a con
siderable group of them is as
sheer a fallacy as judging all the
students in school by one student
or particular group of students. It
just can’t be done.
My name is Bill Smith, student.
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By RfcX GUNIV
Someone caught up with Yip
Harburg.
Yip should feel very bad.
After many successful years of
writing lyrics for popular songs,
Yip has slipped.
Tt seems that one of his top
notchers, “More and More,” isn’t
made right.
In that part where the song
goes: “more and more I'm less and
l^ss unwilling to give up seeing
more and more of you,” it doesn’t
come out right.
Foiled
The fellow who caught up with
Yip says it should go: “more and
more I'm more and more, unwill
ing to give up seeing more and
more of you,’’ or “less and less, I’m
less unwilling to, etc.”
The guy who found out says
this doesn’t speak well for either
Yip or the general public.
He has sounded a slnster note.
He is attacking the very founda
tion of popular American music.
What if he should find out that
when the love bug bites you, you
say “the moon jumped over the
cow hay doodle” instead of the
way it is in the song: “the moon
jumped over the cow hay diddle.”
To Arms
This guy might even disclose
that back in 1935, instead of “Pen
nies from Heaven," it was raining
rain. And think what he could do
to “Yes, We Have no Bananas"
and more recently "June is Bustin
Out Al! Over.”
We must tally to Yip's defense.
He turns out some of the best
syrup on the market today, and
Yip might get discouraged and
quit if we allow people to go
around inspecting his lyrics.
There has to be a way to make
“more and more I'm less and less
unwilling to give up seeing more
and more of you" mean well
mean what that fellow says it
doesn’t.
George Hopkins
(Continued from l>aiie one)
number 2), comprising the list of
selections.
Several of the Well-known stu
dies or etudes will be the first part
of the fourth and last group: F
major, C-sharp minor, “Black
Key,” and E-Major, Op. 10, num
ber 8, Op. 25, number 7, Op. 10
number 5 and Op. 10, number 3.
Polonaise in A-flat major. Op. 53
will be the final composition.
IIregon It Emerald
LOUISE MONTAG
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MARYANN THIELEN
Assistant News Editor
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Executive Secretary
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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 end
final exam periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon.
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.__
What American student would lie hampered in his studying
hv lack of light, books, drinking water, and food? Such things
are taken for granted in the United States.
In China 14 student centers are maintained by the National
Student Relief committee to provide just those things. If it
weren't for soy bean milk bars in the centers, many students
would go without breakfast. They cannot afford to buy oil for
individual lamps; at the centers the oil is pooled and used for
one large lamp.
Boiled water, both precious and necessary in preventing dis
eases, is kept at the centers. Showers and baths are also provided,
and books and magazines are available.
Seemingly the centers provide so little, yet to the Chinese
student these little things arc important. The Chinese National
Student Relief committee needs money for these centers and
for such projects as self-help w hich provides a variety of work
in exchange for books and oil.
University students can contribute throught the World Stu
dent Service fund drive. The campaign begins today at living or
ganizations and at the Co-op. The goal of the drive is $1 per per
son, a minimum of $2000 for the entire campus.
A dollar per person will help a lot, but if we want Chinese uni
versities and other schools in war-ravaged countries to rebuild
and their students to be well enough to carry on their studies and
have the simple necessities, perhaps we can dig a little deeper.
The need is limitless.
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Oregon ra-llied—and in no uncertain terms! Spurred by the
in-this-case-constructive criticism of the many, the rally squad
produced a card and rooting section at Saturday's game which
gave visitors something to take home with them. The squad was
synchronized; the yells were far from weak, and former convic
tions as to Oregon's lack of sportsmanship dissolved.
Carefully planned by the squad with the aid of Hugh Dor
tnadv, the card stunts were accomplished effectively despite
lack of experience on the part of the students. Seen from the re
Ho Hum
By ORIX HUSKY WEIR
Congratulations to Reed “I can’t
seem to stay out of this column”
Grasle and Howard “times are
tough all over” Coffey. Looks like
these two lads Solved the money
problem last Saturday eve at the
El Capitan when they let their
lady friends Melba Heyser and
Joany Hirschbuhl of the Theta
abode wash dishes to pay for their
fat check. Tsk, tsk, sech a way to
treat ladies.
Pome:
By the spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy stood, and
stood, and stood.
Temporary paralysis.
End of pome.
Big haw-haws were
sounded
after the feetsball game Saturday
last when Bobby Bissett and Her
bert Squires amused themselves by
deflateing policemen’s tires while
the coppers stood by unknowing
ly, laughing with the rest of the
crowd. What good sports these
Dick Tracy boys are but were
their faces red when they went to
drive bye bye.
Pome:
I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree
And I’m sure any dog will agree
with me.
End of pome.
My, my, it certainly was grand
seing Rosemary “bothhopper”
Jones back on the campus even if
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By Pat King
President Truman’s special address before a joint session of
Congress on “Compulsory Military Training in Peacetime ’ is
being broadcast over KORE this morning from 9:30 to 10. Tues
day night or funnyman's night will lead off with bibber as usual
at 6:30 on GIvW followed by Bob Hope who has been named an
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About the Emerald
About Game Tickets . . .
To the Editor
If anyone cares to look me up
between now and the end of the
month, they may rest assured I
will be home. For Saturday, my
wife and I, to the tune of $3.60,
saw Oregon trounce Washington
State.
Being a rookie to civilian life
and the University, I asked at the
ticket office before the game if I
might be admitted with my ASUO
card.
“No, I’m sorry,” was the answer,
“if you want to sit with your wife,
you will have to buy two tickets.”
We had our hearts set on seeing
the game, so we decided to splurge
our entire month’s budget money
set aside for pleasure and go.
Or don’t you think we need a
budget ? Have you tried to run a
home on $75.00 a month lately ? If
you haven’t, then perhaps I could
give a demonstration on how to
squeeze the most out of a dime.
Isn't it wonderful? My ASUO
card will get me into the game,
but when I try to take my wife—
“hold on, brother, buy two seats.”
Ah well, we displayed our school
spirit for one week, anyway, by
attending the game. My wife and
1 would not want the students to
think we lacked school spirit.
True, we’ll not be around town or
to any of the games for awhile.
The game cost us too much Satur
day. We’re just broke.
Don McNeil
An outraged veteran
(Athletic Manager Anse Cornell
says his department is trying to
remedy this situation. At present,
if those holding general admission
tickets are allowed to sit in the
student section an additional tax
will have to be levied on the stu
dent tickets.—Editor)
Honorary t>. I. tor his work
in entertaining troops by the
American Veterans of World
War II.
Diana Barrymore, who re
cently appeared in Portland
co-starring- with her husband
Bramwell Fletcher in ‘‘Rebec
ca,” joins the Jack Carson show
Wednesday on KOIN at 9.
Known to intimates as The Bo1^
tie, Sinatra will gurgle at 6:30 on
the same station. Frankie has been
trying to control his bobby-soxer
audience by asking them not to ap
plaud between numbers but to
wait until the end of the program
and they are cooperating beau
tifully.
Everything goes peacefully un
til the end of the show when
pandemonium breaks loose as it
did when Gene Kelly guested on
his program and the audience rose
up and swarmed over the two.
Eisenhower’s Chauffeur
If you're interested in hearing
about the experience of General
Eisenhower’s personal army
chauffeur, then tune in to the
Morton Downey show Wednesday
at 9:15 on KOIN. Downey, inci
dentally, sounds as if someone
stole his last bottle of vitamin
pills.
Thursday Lucille Ball, who h^^
spent most of her screen life lift
ing shapely legs and eyebrows
around in technicolor, accompanied
by T. D., will turn into a demoniac
cal woman named Sara who liter
ally double-crossed everyone and
brings about her own untimely de
mise on Suspense, Thurday, on
KNX or a reasonable facimile at
9.
A good musical program over
KORE can be heard on Thursdays
after dinner at 6:30 featuring Bea
Wain and Nestor Chayes who spe
cializes in Latin American songs.
I wonder if Nestor decided to be
different by switching the first
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served stand across the field, the rooting section was reminiscent
of Oregon in the days of '39 and '40.
Xo small portion of the enthusiasm was due to the efforts of
the l niversity hand. Timely and lively, their swing numbers
are something which, in the future, we will not want to do with-"
out.
With one more home game, the Webfoots are hoping that the
"visitor-loser ’ jinx of this year's coast conference games \vT^
hold when OSC meets the Ducks here on December 1. The pace
has been set. both by team and by rooters, for a spirit "like we
knew we had." It sustained, this spirit will win regardless of the
score.