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MARGUERITE WITTWER
Managing Editor
BILL SETSER
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JEANNE SIMMONDS
News Editor
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MARILYN SAGE, WINIFRED ROMTVEDT
Associate Editors
Leonard Turnbull, Fred Beckwith
Co-Sports Editors
BYRON MAYO
Assistant Managing Editor
MARYANN THIELEN
Assistant News Editor
BERNARD ENGEL
Chief Copy Editor
TED BUSH
Chief Night Editor
ANITA YOUNG
Women’s Page Editor
JACK CRAIG
World News Editor
BETTY BENNETT CRAMER
Music Editor
Editorial Board
Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Jack Craig, Ed Allen, Beverly Ayer
Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays ana
fnal exam periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon.
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.
Build-up. lob a RuildUtta...
Between the dream and the construction of the Erb Me
morial Union building is the task of raising about $300,000 from
-contributions. The campaign for this sum will begin as soon
as the services of a good manager can be obtained. To assure
a successful drive and businesslike management, the manager
will have to be hired in the competitive market so that he can
devote his time and talents wholeheartedly to the job.
Besides the expense of hiring a campaign manager, there
will be advertising and secretarial costs to be paid. It is esti
mated that the campaign operational fund will total from
$10,000 to $12,000.
Although operational expenses can be deducted from the
■contributions realized in the drive, a better policy is to get the
necessary funds from other sources before the campaign begins.
The Alumni Holding company recognized this policy and
pledged its resources (of about $5000) to support it.
At its last meeting the educational activities board approved
an appropriation of $2500 for operating expenses for the Erb
Memorial Union drive. The board’s interest in the building is
obvious. Its offices will be housed there, and a number of activi
ties it manages, such as the Oregana, concerts, and organiza
tional activities, will have their headquarters in the new build
ing. Besides, the board feels a genuine interest in this project
which will benefit the whole University and each individual
student in varied ways.
It is hoped that other sources closely connected with the
University will provide the balance of the necessary money.
If these operational costs can be covered before contribu
tions are solicited, the proceeds of the drive can be free for
building costs, and no percentage need be reserved for adver
tising and campaign^ management.
Although the money pledged by the Alumni Holding com
pany and the educational activities board could have been desig
nated as part of the general building sum, it is fitting that
these sources should start the ball rolling and contribute their
share to the less alluring project of campaign financing. When
the full operational budget has been subscribed, the main task
ol raising $3Q0,(XX) can he taken up with full vigor.
Aid to PiaaeM,. . .
Oregon’s all-campus little black book \Vill be brought up to
date this week with the distribution of the supplement to the
Piggers’ t'.uide. The supplement will be distributed free to
students and is being financed by funds appropriated by the
educational activities board.
Since the number of supplements put out is limited, students
are asked to take only one each and not to take advantage of
the free distribution.
Kxcept for supervision by paid employees, volunteer student
workers have done all the compilation of material for this addi
tion to the guide. They deserve a vote of thanks from the
student bodv and l/niversitv officials.
Browsing...
With Joe Young.
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“He that would have his horn
tooted ... let him toot his own
horn’’ once said a Sycamore pro
fessor of mine. . . So—it may sound
like the Willamette blues ... or it
may be the quack of a ■•contented
duck ... or a minor melody of mid
terms. . . But there’s always some
thing as an old Indiana man brows
es from Villard to the libe and
sometimes completes a campus tri
angle with a stroll down McArthur
way. . .
-u o
Back in those days before UNO,
atomic energy, and FEPC-buster
ing, when we were just having an
ordinary war, archit-aluminus Dick
Marlitt was expounding the glories
of UO to me between mosquito bites
and Quonset huts ... It was raining
then on those SoPac isles; there’s
been a lot of rain since, and it’s
raining here—but my enthusiasm
has not dampened. . .
-U O
“For after all, the best thing
one ean do when it is raining,
is let it rain,” and this Long
fellow approach to precipita
tion could lead a list of annoy
ances—but for the patient soul
there are promises of dryer
things.
-U O
Comes rain, comes the art of a
woodworking bootmaker — dainty
No. 5 feet wading around in No.
10 exteriors... Then there are those
sleepy moments in a lecture hour
and the awakening sensation comes
when Miss-Next-Row uncrosses
her limbs, and a few board-feet
bounce on the deck. . .
-U O
In Eugene over a month, and
Notei.
Qtt (lecosid
On the Classical Side ...
By Bejty Bennett Cramer
“There’s more snobbery connect
ed with old instruments than with
anything I know,” a recent issue of
Time magazine reported the world
famous violinist, William Primrose,
as saying. Primrose, it seems, has
played his.last 40 conceits with an
instrument made for him in 1945
in Philadelphia by William Moen
nig Jr., the only American-born
member of the 300-year-old Euro
pean Guild of Violinmakers. The
viola Primrose sometimes uses in
preference to his world-famous
Amati was not, however, construct
ed casually.
Moennig, according to Time,
spent a year and half studying the
violinist's playing technique, “then
almost six months shaping and
making the viola. . . Moennig tried
to blend the measurements of a
Strad and an Amati to get the
Amati’s mellow roundness with the
greater brilliance of the Strad.”
Public Attitude
“Moennig is fairly cynical about
the public's attitude toward ancient
instruments. “Invariably the tone
I of an instrument is rapturously ad
| mired,” he says, “until the audience
j learns it was finished a week or a
month before. Then they come out
with the bright statement that they
noticed a bit of newness in the
tone.”
Record fans can compare the
quality of the instruments f or
themselves: the Primrose recording j
of the “Harold in Italy” of Berlioz
with Koussevitzky and the Boston
Ork was made with his famous
Amati: however, the most recent
Primrose recording, of Arthur Ben
jamin's “Jamaican Rumba,” “Mat
ty Rag,” “Cookie” and “From San
Domingo” (12-inch No. 11-S947)
( Please turn to paye seven)
that permanent aaciress is an eiu-.
sive-apartment-yet-to-be-rented. . . |
There were those early January]
daily calls on Mrs. Macduff for her I
reports on the housing situation • • • I
with the anticipations of another I
change still packed down in the
basement, I relax with a reminis
cent list of all the times I’ve moved
my few standards-of-living—mul
tiplied, of course, by four naval
years—Eugene rates as the 35th
temporary place for food and shel
ter since beginning my freshman
year in college. . . Should have
enough “points” for something per
manent some day. . .
-U O
Donned the “green Freshie”
several years ago back at Indi
ana university. . . Between
English comp and basic infan
tROTC there was some coke
sipping and coeducational fra
ternizing in the “Commons” of
I.U.’s Memorial Union. . . Per
haps the cokes are giving way
to coffee, and the women are
not the drooling force as be
fore—but tally Joe as a UO
Union petitioner. . .
-U O
Last week "Powder Burns” gave
an explosive challenge to an epic
torian of our country. . . Some one
who can get more than mud and
mountains out of the dirt under
foot as “Men and women packed
up their goods and loaded them on
wagons and moved a thousand miles
with their children, their few and
cherished possessions, their slips of
rosebuds and apple seedlings, their
Bibles, their books and their guns,
to find a new home in the rich and
dangerous western lands.. . ” Some
Benet browsing found these quotes.
. . . For those who want American
history that’s more a biography
of the spirit of a land than' a data
book of facts (and after all, “What
is the metric weight of a crushed
dream or the price of freedom per
cubic foot?”) try Benet’s “Ameri
ca.”. .
-U O
Just Browsing — and so was
Charles Lamb in “Detached
Thoughts,” “Newspapers always
excite curiosity. No one ever lays
one down without a feeling of dis
appointment. . . ”
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By Rex Gunn
My cat has a reputation for being
tough.
It is mostly deserved because,
although lovable, he is mean as hell
and his mark travels with many
neighboring cats.
He has never discriminated be
tween human bones and other types.
When he gets a bone-gnawing im
pulse, he gnaw3 bones, and if the
nearest one happens to be in some
one’s thigh or chest or elbow, he
considers it their problem—not his.
Female cats are not beneath his
dignity, but he treats them rough
and changes often.
His charm doubtless is partly due
to a backyard voice which ranges
from a polite, high-pitched squeak
(when he wants something) to an
irritable, bass growl (when he has
something someone wants).
I’m convinced he has a beer
source, too. There are times he
comes swaggering in about 1 a.ni.,
wiggling his whiskers and heading
straight for bed with that “I’ve had
enough’’ look.
He always manages to get his
paws muddy during the night’s ac
tivities so he can mess up what
ever path he takes to his bedroom.
Threatened with .eviction, he will
wash them but not without dis
gruntled grumbles — very expres
sive ones.
All this stacks up a rough repu
tation so when a friend found mice
in her apartment, he was the logi
can solution.
Now, he had never seen mice, but
when the friend (who is a success
ful business lady with a fur coat
and a smooth line) talked it over
with him, he preened his paws and
went with her.
He was back home in less than
48 hours, a total disgrace. He ran
like a frightened piece of cheese
from his first mouse.
I don’t know whether he indulged
in one of his frequent character
roles or was actually afraid.
Anyway, if he doesn’t improve by
spring, I’m going to find out if he
really has any guts.
I need a new tennis racket, any
way.
Rough Customer
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By PAT KING
New York Dramatists Guild and NBC will merge to pro
duce and televise Broadway Preview, a program in which un
known playwiights and dramatists will have the opportunity
to piesent their plays each week. Because producers are jittery
about 1 isking capital on new names —in play weighting se-v^h^
out of ten plays flop in a season—good scripts are often re
jected. Many of these playwrights
will now have a chance to make
their bid for producers’ attention
through television premiers at
which the producers will be able to
see the new stage plays in finished
form. NBC will assume all produc
tion costs and will work writh the
authors in any necessary revisions
or adaptations necessary for pre
sentation on television. Thus
authors, stage producers, televi
sion, and the public will benefit.
Other Half
Two “Heathcliffs,” one from
Hollywood and the other from New
York, both clad in a high silk hat
and a pair of hip boots and each
carrying half of a S1000 bill, have
begun their cross-country search
for each other in the Chinese
restaurants of the United States.
Of course, Ralph Edwards dreamed
this up—who else ?
One contestant was chosen from
the T or C show in Hollywood and
the other from the Fred Allen show
in New York, and all they have to
do is find each other in one of
the cities on their scheduled tour j
of the country is to go into every !
chop suey restaurant in the city j
and shout, “Heathcliff” until they
meet and match their halves of the
divided $1000 bill.
Everybody is doing it so Jerry
Colonna. has joined the ranks of
celebrities writing books about
their experiences while touring the
USO circuit during the war. Bob
Hope wrote about the tours in the
Pacific and European area of his
troup of which Colonna was a
member, and now Jerry will write
in his typical style about the Hope
troup in the Pacific in 1944. Sid
Vogt, cartoonist, will furnish the
humorous drawings.
Smith Scores
Larry Smith can start taking
bows on one of the predictions he
made at the beginning of the year
which was printed in this column.
His forecast that T. V. Soongj
wo u 1 d replace Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek as China's num
ber one man has been confirmed
by a UP bulletin which states th^.
the generalissimo nas indicated he
will resign as soon as the Chinese
government has been restored to
the people.
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