Oregon If Emerald
LOUISE MONTAG
Editor
ANNAMAE WINSHIP
Business Manager
MARGUERITE WITTWER
Managing Editor
BILL, SETSER
Advertising Manager
JEANNE SIMMONDS
News Editor
MARILYN SAGE, WINIFRED ROMTVEt>T
Associate Editors
Editorial Board
Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Jack Craig, Ed Allen, Beverly Ayer
Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays ima
final exam periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon.
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.
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Vital Statiitici
A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but names
are handy means of identification. Almost as necessary as
the name itself in social contacts at the University is the
Piggers’ Guide or student and faculty directory. It lists the
names, home and campus addresses, majors and years, and
telephone numbers of all students enrolled at Oregon. It also
gives similar information about faculty members and adminis
trative and business officials and various campus leaders.
With a rather sizeable number of new students enrolling
in school this term, the fall term directory is now very in
complete. Not only are several fraternities reopening their
houses, but also there are more students living in private homes.
It will be very inconvenient for them as well as the old students
if their names are not listed in the directory.
Although many schools publish a new guide each term, a
supplement to the present Piggers’ Guide would serve very
nicely in this case. It could be sold for a small cost by one of
the campus service honoraries in the various living organiza
tions and at the Co-op, and students could clip the supplements
in the back of their Piggers’ Guide.
The Educational Activities office still has* a number of
guides left from the fall term sales, and these are available for
new students to buy.
Ordinarily not enough new students enroll winter or spring
term to make it necessary to publish an addition to the guide.
This year such a supplement is very badly needed.
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An increasing number of the members of the Webfoot
family are being taken into private homes in Eugene. As paying
guests they occupy rooms usually saved for visiting friends
and relatives. Some of these students become a part of the
family circle in these homes.
By opening their extra rooms to students, many families
are giving up the privacy of their homes. Naturally, they will
receive payment from their guests, but they are due a little
more than cash on the line. These families do not expect a great
show of gratitude. Many of them offered their rooms after the
Chamber of Commerce, the Register-Guard, and interested
townspeople pointed out the real need of housing at the Uni
versity. Knowing the situation, they wanted to help.
Officially, the University has thanked these people for their
part in relieving the housing shortage. But they pill be thanked
much more eloquently and personally through the actions of
their student roomers, friendliness, neatness, and a respect
for the homes of these families on the part of the roomers will
express the students’ appreciation in concrete terms. Lack of
these will cause them to regret that they ever answered the
pleas of Eugene groups, University officials, and the students
themselves.
I he pleasing- impression created by the student roomers
now is helping these groups in their efforts to line up more
housing for spring term. The Webfoot family is grateful to the
cooperative people of the community who have and are giving
their time and ability to improve housing conditions.
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I'oi those who spent the Christmas vacation recuperating’
from a case of the fin, the news from the health service this
week was especially heartening. Dr. Fred X. Miller, head of
the health service, announced that vaccinations against in
fluenza would he given students at cost, onlv 80 cents.
Since the infirmary has vaccine for only 500 vaccinations,
the entire student body will not be able to get the shots. The
rule will be first-come-first-served.
locally and throughout the nation, it is obviously to the aclvan
tage of students to protect themselves. The infirmary is not
equipped to handle a campus flu epidemic, and winter term
is all too short to be interrupted by unnecessarv absences.
high tv cents is a small price to pay to guard against such
a common illness.
Hemisphere
Hopping
By MARCELLA JOHNSON
Four months have elapsed since
V-J Day, and peace is supposed to
be the way of the world. Yet there
are various spots of contention in
the world where armed hostilities
still hold forth. Such a place is in
the Netherlands East Indies,
where 1946 was ushered in with
strained conditions between the
Dutch and the Indonesians. The
question being decided in the
archipelago is concerned with the
problem of Dutch sovereignty
versus Indonesian independence.
This is not only a problem that
the Dutch have to face, but all the
nations in the world who have
ventured forth imperialistically
and gained colonies to help sup
port their homeland; it is to be
determined now ' whether these
powers will still be able to main
tain colonial empires, or whether
new and drastic changes will have
to be made in the method of gov
erning those colonies.
To such nations as the Dutch
and the British that have few
resources at home, colonies are the
chief form of livelihood. For exam
ple the Netherlands East Indies
provide large amounts of oil, tin,
coffee, rubber, pepper, and nearly
all of the world’s supply of quinine.
For Holland to lose control of
these resources would be similar to
cutting off both arms and legs.
Partnership Promised
The Dutch have long realized
that they cannot always dominate
their colonial empire as has been
their past policy so in 1942 Queen
Wilhelmina promised the Indone
sians an eventual partnership in
a Netherlands Commonwealth. The
Indonesians did not and are not
condoled with this idea. Their aim
is either independence or a form
of government under the control
and guidance of the United Na
tion organizations. They base their
reasoning on such factors as (1)
they are 72 million against the
Dutch 7 million, (2) they have
nearly all the natural resources it
takes to become completely inde
pendent, and (3) they have the
great desire to become self-sus
taining. They believe that at the
present time and during the next
few years they could make rapid
growth along this line and would
not have to be troubled with the
thought of foreign aggression.
The leaders of the dreamed of
Indonesian Republic believe that
they have never been given a
chance under Dutch control to
further their own national inter
ests. For the last three hundred
years there has been little or no
attempt by the Dutch to try to
Christianize or Westernize their
old cultures', it was not until the
turn of the twentieth century that
the natives were given any voice
in the government of their home
land'; education standards were
low; there was little or no free
dom of speech; and financially the
natives were at rock bottom, the
average income of a native before
World War II was two cents a
day, while the Dutch made mil
lions of dollars in profit; or, as the
Indonesians feel, the basic injus
tices of colonialism and imperial*
ism of a large scale.
Seeds of Nationalism
With these facts simmering in
the minds of a few of the educated
natives, nationalism reared its
head in the early 1900’s under the
guiding hand of the Dutch-educat
ed native, Achmend Soekarno,
such spark as there was was kept
well under control by the Dutch.
When the Japanese invaded the
Netherlands East Indies in 1941
42, there was little difference to
the uneducated native as to who
the ruling power was, but to the
Readers of the cause for the Indo
nesian Republic it was a ripe op
portunity for them to carry on
their work for the fight for inde
pendence, while the Dutch were
out of the way for the time being.
They made good use of this
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By TED HALLOCK
By far the greatest white band in America today, Boyd Raeburn
stands among the 74 vote class in Down Beat’s latest poll, assuming
your copy hasn’t arrived, man. What a farce these straw-vote-poor
man’s-Gallup messes are. Eight thousand Bronx high shavers vote for
the band most likely to play the Paramount next week.
Obviously Raeburn’s music calls for an attentive and almost
necessarily musicianly listening ear. Unfortunately their best work
exists on Langworth and Ascap
ET's in the vaults of too-young
disc jockeys northerly way. Guild
label has put a few out; “Summer
time,” Bothwell arrangement, and
“Sequence,” a John original with
much great alto. Last June during
his S. F. Palace date, Raeburn
sacrificed much scratch for that
lovin’ air time, which didn’t win
much of anything, including listen
ers.
Reconversion Warning
You might have caught one, ana,
if you did, remembered. So watch
for Boyd. And burn incense
against another 1942 type Kenton
reconversion program after “Reed
Rapture” and eight brass blew too
much hair from mentally balding
pates. Bothwell is with our combo
now, but that still leaves George
Handy, arranging from 88 bench,
and Frank Sokolow, another must
be-heard-to-be-voted on, tenorman.
Of course when John , B. left
Boyd’s Boids bad tastes were ex
perienced all around. Took all of
the book that he had done and
previously sold to Raeburn. Great
kick is Milt Kleeb, of Portland in
Oregon, who is still with uncle at
Fort Knox but is sending pounds
of affairs like "March of the
Boyds,” based on a Hindemuth
riff, to the band. More will be said
later.
Hampton will not show at the
park tonite. Flood warped the
floor, maybe permanently, accord
ing to whoever told me. Which
means Art may be out in rowboats
for a while.
Right Records
Following are several gramo
phone records that must be found.
The greatest of the last three
years, or thereamong: Jimmy
Dorsey’s “Oh What A Beautiful
A.M.” on black label Decca, an
oddity because the band is usually
mediocre with Dorsey’s horrible
alto, below even mediocrity. So
from oblivion it came out for this
thing and proceeded back five
minutes after it was cut. If you
should catch any J.D. air-shots
watch for same type arrangement
of “Lover.”
Excellent: A. Shaw’s “Chantez
le Bas,” three year old Victor, the
12-bar blues, but with melodic
strain from Mexican foray to drink
milk made by Artie during the
second “tired-of-it-all-and-Lana
Turner” or “absinthe” period.
Great: Mel Powell’s original
with entire Goodman gang; “Mis
sion to Moscow,” Columbia, two
and-a-half-years old, Lou McGar
rity tram, etc. Mel piano.
Bob Crosby’s hungry new studio
pick-up band has a CBS show be
ginning soon which should last a
week or so. He was marine 1st. It.
Not that anyone cares.
Portland Guide
Portland and vicinity: Snow fol
lowed by little boys on sleds (you
recall Morgan, do you). Warren
Black, who plays guitar and is
married, has opened a shop, “Le
Jazz Record,” next to the Broad
way theater, with Earl Whitney.
Assuming musicians to be head
less, it may not go, but the stock
iis good. The 8,949 odd labels now
on the market comprise their col
lection of rarities. Black’s trio is
still at the Paddock. Bob Baker
and Eddie LeHigh have a 14-piece
band; name, Eddie Hughes. Russ
Graham lost a horn in the Clover
Club fire but not his library un
fortunately. Monte Ballou has the
only sincere effort in the town
with a small jazz band at some
place known as the Red Dot,
where two or 2000 bucks qualify
you for the rolling mill. A1 Zone,
trumpet: Willie Pavia, clarinet;
George Phillips, tram; Axel Tyle,
Sociology Course
Stresses Problems
Of Modern Family
By VESTA SARGENT
Marriage and the family, a
course of recent establishment in
most of the colleges and universi
ties in the United States, was
created to meet student demand.
Fifteen years ago there were few
courses of this kind taught in the
schools because of religious and
social feeling against them.
As a sociology subject, it places
dual emphasis on the history of
marriage through the ages and
problems of marriage today, it""
serves, too, as a marriage prepar
ation course to better fit men and
women to become husband and
wife and parents.
The social leaders and educators
are worrying about the American
marriage as an institution because
the divorce rate has risen until
there is one divorce for every four
marriages in the United States.
In many schools marriage
courses are not given for credit,
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drums. King Oliver idea and well
done. Especially on things like
“Sister Kate.” It must he Victor
cause Portland don’t shake like
that.
This is a period of re-orienta
tion (army term) so forgive the
wordiness. Columns are usually
made up of cartoons you know.
On the campi: watch for a new
large band this term, ask Dick
Carlton or George Carey about it;
watch for music on the KOAC
KEX variety show Wednesday
nights; same for a Januaary 10
pre-BB game rally. Great surprises
or large thuds in store. Let’s col
lectively get on the business and
demand some of those fine pre
war, pre-game rallies et assemblies
avec music.
Senior Ball this eve. Winship
says to say that yellow shoes may
be worn.-No tuxedos. Long dresses
(no revealing types). Banks of
orchids. Begins nine. Holman
plays.
Welcome to more 1940-41 musi
cian vets; Dave Fortmiller, trum
pet; Ed Johnson, bass; Tommy
Thompson, tenor. All good guys
and able to blow much more than
their nose. j
Campus Guide
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AND MORE HONORS
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