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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 9, 1945)
LOUISE MONTAG Editor ANNAMAE WINSHIP Business Manager MARGUERITE WITTWER Managing Editor GLORIA GRENFELL Advertising Manager JEANNE SIMMONDS News Editor MARILYN SAGE, WINIFRED ROMTVEDT Associate Editors Bill Walkenshaw, Leonard Turnbull Co-Sports Editors MARYAN HOWARD Assistant Managing Editor MARYANN THIELEN Assistant News Editor JANET WHELAN Executive Secretary 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 final exam periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.__ osi Mat t& Whenever there is more than one individual, there will he a difference of opinion. Among 2845 individuals, it is far fiom likely that all of them will agree on anything—in this case, •dunking. . Analyzed, the practice of dipping violators of the YV lnsker ino no-shave rule into a water barrel becomes a little silly and unnecessary. For that matter, dissection of almost any Oregon tradition-painting the “O”, Hello walk, the Senior Bench, •class pants, and so on—will result in the a like conclusion. Yet much of the fun would be lost in a university without tradition. Granted that studies are a student s chief objective, campus life would border on the barren without the color of traditional extra-curricular activities. There have been wars before, and tradition has not disap peared. The men who went to fight are the same men who are returning—not psychological cases with a reveised outlook on life in general, we believe. They seem to want to find things as they left them—most of them. Dunking during' Whiskcrino week is a Web foot custom of long standing, hew, if any, of the victims have found it haim ful. Stunts such as this help publicize the subsequent event and become a part of the “when 1 was in school" memories of Ore gon alums. Without them, a university becomes more or less an education factory on the 168-hour-week basis. ^Ite PaupidUfiXf GeoAeb... Strain your voice no more, professor. The pounding of ham mers in Yillard hall will bother you no more. Classes may pro ceed with students free from the fear that noisy carpenters w ill drown the words ol the professor. AN hen the}' staited woik in Nil lard, converting the upper story into a dormitory, classes were moved downstairs or out of the building. Then the pound ing came nearer, and a professor or two, not wishing to com pete with hammer and nail, called off a class or two. The professor couldn’t order the carpenters out of the budd ing; the carpenters had orders to build living quarters. Super visors behind the job didn't realize the work would interfere with classes. The official word, Thursday, however, was that arrangement are being made to withold the pounding until after 2 p. m. and work into the evening. In order to speed the job other work will be done earlier in the day. As in any emergency, this time of housing stress hits every one, comfortable home or not. The inconvenience in Villard hall has been of little consequence, but it would not have been fair to instructors and students to let such avoidable interference continue. Go-ufd&i Only... Student-veterans will he allowed to sit with their wives in the student rooting sections, according to Ruth tiiltord, ticket man ager for the ASl'O. Admission tickets will he necessary for the wives who are not students, hut the veterans can use their regis tration activity cards for admittance. The athletic department was delayed in granting this request of the veterans because there was a possibility that students would have to he charged an added tax if such a policy were adopted. When this question was settled by the proper authori ties, the athletic department made the desired change. Since the student section is divided into the men s and wo men’s divisions, part of it should he reserved for married couples who want to sit together. The athletic department does not specify what arrangements are to be made within the student grandstands. The railv squad or the Thi Thetas can he authorized to mark off a reserved section for married couples. ..... Powder Burns immnmmiiiiimnmimiimimiuimimmmimniHmHiiinmmiiimniniimmmmimmm By REX GUNN Let us revel, let us revel, let us all pursue the devil. Brazen voice broke out in a patch of rhubarb and journeyed up a hill into the center of a nation. Shakespeare rolled over and said: “Full of sound and fury signifying nothing.’’ A man with grimy hands jour neyed to number 10 on an island and the voices from the rhubarb patch said: “Good” and voices from the center of a nation said: “Good” and voices from a rice bowl said nothing. Later the man at number 10 on an island turned to the center of a nation and said: “Who censors thus and crushes me in eloquence, mine equal not your words but in my heart, I have far better coun cil than your tongue.” Whereupon there died a man and a man that lived stepped in and out of a vinyard there came cries for an equal draught of wine with a pie of rhubarb, a cup of tea, a bowl of rice, and a hamburger. Now, an olive grove heard that cry and it cried too but the voice was weak and the response weaker. Meanwhile out of a tomb, crawl ed a worm and it viewed the frightful rushing and it heard the irritant cries and it scrawled on a moldy tombstone: “With nerves strung taut in some deep black a charger goes careening past, its gears whine, its eyes aghast, its gait a heedless blur. Its purpose is a curse. Its fate is not to see here with me. So shall it be.” fDown Front By MI MI MOORES “Captain Eddie,” at the McDon ald, is a story about a really great man, and it is as honest and straight-forward as its subject, Eddie Rickenbacker. In contrast to most of the movies about heroes who are still living, “Cap tain Eddie" is presented with the very minimum of pompous patriot ism, including the brass band. Instead, most of the movie is concerned with Rickenbacker in his younger days. Incidentally, it gives a good idea of what went on when our parents were in college. Fred McMurray plays his part surprisingly well. He gets better and better, I thought, as Ricken backer grows older. By the end of the picture, only very hard-hearted people won’t get a lump in their throats. The Playmore at Springfield is showing “Those Endearing Young Charms.” Innocent and beautiful Larraine Day is up against a sly and wolfish Robert Young, and she wins! She even reforms the guy, which gives you an idea of what love can do. Guard: “Who goes there?” Officer: “Lieutenant Smith.” Guard: “Password.” Officer: "Doggone it, man, I’ve forgotten it. You know me well enough.” Guard: “Must have the pass word.” Voice from the guardhouse: “Don’t stand there arguing all night. Shoot him.” _ ‘‘Men are qualified for civil li exact proportion to their dispos appetites." The chief vocational value dertake, organize and carry th ! own power without grades or e The Vocational Advisory servi 1 helping people get into the rig i tracurricular activities seriousl with driving interests during ci j interests in his adult work.—'1' ............. at the- 2bial iHiimiiimnmiliimimiiiiicmiliiniimiTnmmntniimiiiiiiitmmimiiiiiiiiiiiiinmimimmiui! The Navy-Michigan game in Baltimore will be broadcast at 10:45 a.m. Saturday over ABC. On Sunday, Joseph M. Stack, national commander of the Veter ans of foreign wars, will deliver an Armistice Day address over the same network at noon. “La Tosca,” famed for some of Puccini’s best-loved melodies, will be performed in English on the Chicago Theater of the Air, Sat urday from 8 to 9 p.m. over KORE. Grand Opera Marion Claire, prima donna of the Chicago Theatre series, will sing the role of the opera’s hero ine, Floria Tosca, and Richard Tucker will sing the role of Tosca’s heroic artist-lover, Mario Cavardossi, with Bruce Foote, baritone, as the villainous Scarpia. Incidentally, Mutual is present ing a new quarter-hour melody program featuring old-time re corded hits, starting Monday, 12:30 to 12:45 p.m. Norman Brockenshire will chat about the “good old days,” and will supple ment his talks with recordings of Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallee, Kate Smith, Sophie Tucker, George i!!iiiiniiiiii!i!iiiiiiii!iiniiiiiiini!!iiu!!iniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiinnni: Telling the Editor iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiuiiimiiumiiniiiimimiimiiicuiiiimiHiiiiniiiiiiiiiimiiuiiiiiiimnmimiib About Not Dunking . . . To the High Sheriff: So you’re helping to put the Uni versity back on a sound post-war basis, with traditions like the Whiskerino. Might it have entered your mind to help place the Uni versity back on a Sound Post-War Educational basis ? Fortunately the University has been getting rid of some of its so called tradition, and more will disappear as “soundness” reap pears. You might remind the deputy sheriffs that this is an edu cational institution. Maybe they are proud of those newly discovered whiskers, but reassure the boys that as they mature they will become used to them. If you fellows of the soda fountain stools have nothing more to do than grow whiskers, you’re welcome to it. Fortunately, you are not in the majority, so play ycur games little boys; the aver age student has more important things to do. A Vet. About Dunking . . . To the Editor: This is in reply to the letter in the paper Tuesday, “About Shav ing.” He asked for it. The 100 per cent disabled on this campus are few in comparison to the number of veterans. Those that are totally disabled should have special treatment and con sideration, but for those that fought the “Battles of San Fran cisco, Portland, Seattle, etc.” and some of the ones who fought the Japs and Germans, luckily coming back without any or a small dis ability. should be treated as regu lar students. Sure, we went without shaving or washing at times; the author of Tuesday's letter should wave a flag in the other hand and tell about the food and sleep we missed also. I'm for the tradition. Another Vet. berty,” said Edmund Burke, “in ition to put chains on their own it" any extra work that you un rough to the finish under your redits. is to serve as a signpost; ;e in Xew York, for example, is it work, takes the record of ex r. They believe that the person liege days will also have driving lie Reveille. ........ "... Jessel, Eddie Cantor, and Jack Benny. Radio Anniversary Former President Herbert Hoov er will speak over the Columbia network in connection with the twenty-fifth anniversary week of radio Saturday. He will give hia views on the conduct and progress of radio during the past quarter century. Hoover served as chair man of the international radio conference in 1927 when repre sentatives of 76 nations framed rgulations for world broadcasting. The Janiro-Greco fight will be broadcast over the ABC network at 7 tonight. At the conclusion of the fight, Tom Cowan, the first sports announcer in radio will be the guest cf sportscaster Joe Hasel on “Your American Sports Page.” Cowan covered the World Series of 1921 by radio. Benny on a Spree “Request Performance,” Sunday from 6 to 6:30 p.m., over CBSjkjU feature Jack Benny, Kathryn Grayson, Sydney Greenstreet, and Mary Astor. Benny will do a request for his feuding friend, Fred Allen when he takes Mary Astor out on a date and spends some big dough. Sydney Greenstreet will read from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell tale Heart.” It is the story of a murderer sitting alone in his room after he has buried the body of his victim under the floorboards. He thinks he hears the beat of the victim’s heart. The beat increases in intensity until it drives the killer insane. Cass Daley Anothr guest show, Erskine Johnson’s program over Mutual Monday through Friday at 4:30, will present Cass Daley, exuberant ! feminine radio commedienne, next Wednesday. “Spotlight Bands” gives a re turning soldier and his band their first chance at a coast-to-coast radio appearance next Friday. The veteran, Buddy Morrow, steps into the spotlight with his band to salute the army training schools at the University of Maine. He formed his orchestra. Champagne Music Lawrence Welle and his “cham pagne music” entertain the patients and nurses at Santa Cruz U. S. Naval hospital Monday. Eugene visitor Jan Garber and his orchestra are in the spotlight Wednesday, playing for the Puget Sound navy yard. Saturday’s dateless can get their thrills from the kiddy-favori3e, “Gangbusters,” at 9 p.m. over ABC. The single clue which will be broadcast will be a description^?)? the same criminal whose history and capture provide the story in the body of the program. Ir 71 9 staved MUSIC & and ART i Books on music and Art Reproductions and Prints made 1 instruments and Accessories Art and Music Supplies P. A. Systems for rent with Records Phone 4407 1198 Willamette