Oregon It Emerald
LOUISE MONTAG
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ANNAMAE WINSHIP
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MARGUERITE WITTWER
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GEOKGK JrEGG
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JEANNE SIMMONDS
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MARILYN SAGE, WINIFRED ROMTVEDT
Associate Editors
Art Litchman, Tommy Wright
Co-Sporta Editors
BYRON MAYO
Assistant Managing Editor
MARYANN THIELEN
Assistant News Editor
BERNARD ENGEL
Chief Copy Editor
ANITA YOUNG
Women’s Page Editor
JACK CRAIG
World News Editor
BETTY BENNETT CRAMER
Music Editor
Editorial Board
Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Jack Craig, Eld Allen, Beverly Ayer
Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays ana
Seal exam periods by tbe Associated Students, University of Oregon.
Entered as second-class matter at tbe poctoffice. Eugene, Oregon.
OU fsMUKfU to Vote ? . . .
“If I’m old enough to fight for my country, I’m old enough
to buy beer.”
Servicemen from 17 to 20 made this declaration frequently
during the war. Now it’s being applied to the right to vote.
A “Vote at 18” committee has started a movement to change
the state constitution so that 18-year-olds can vote in Oregon
state elections. They hope to get 23,103 voters to sign petitions
so that the measure will be on the ballot in the November
general election.
While the committee looks to labor and farm groups and
veterans’ organizations for support, it might seek the advice of
educators, also. College professors and high school teachers
have the best chance to see the intellectual development of the
youth of Oregon. In day to day encounters in the classroom,
an educator can guage the students’ knowledge of governmental
affairs and the soundness of their reasoning.
The tie-up between the right to vote and the right to fight
sounds good, but it doesn’t necessarily hold true. An 18-vear
old would he a better front-line fighter than Wendell Willkie
or Franklin Roosevelt would have been. But the franchise
should not be based on the ability to fight.
• • •
Sf2/U*Uf ^J&IM Statiiiici
Billy Rose slapped college girls in the face by declaring that,
•with few exceptions, beautiful girls do not go to college. Simul
taneously, Lawrence Gould, consulting psychologist at the
•Univeristy of Southern California, warned, “College is no place
for a woman if she is interested in a husband.”
To prove this point, Mr. Gould hauls out a tidy list of statis
tics. Quoting the Metropolitan Life Insurance company report,
lie says that of women in the United States between 45 and 49
years old:
Ninety-five per cent of those who left school by the sixth
grade are or have been married.
Ninety-two per cent of those who went on to the seventh
or eighth grade have “Mrs.” before their name.
liighty-eight per cent of those attending high school and S4
per cent of those who had a year or so of college have been
married.
Of the girls who held college degrees, only 70 per cent
-ever married.
The Daily Trojan commented that the figures indicated a
man does not desire for his spouse o*ie who is intellectually
inclined.
While their beauty and their chances for marriage are being
denounced By the “experts,” the number of coeds at the Uni
versity of Oregon has shown a steady increase. The girls are
dcfving the experts, for few of them will admit a lack of beauty
or a disapproval of the institution .of matrimony.
In the midst of spring term at the LT, it would take more
than Billy Rose, the Metropolitan Life Insurance company, and
Lawrence Gould to convince Oregon coeds that they’re doomed
to be old maids.
A thinking- driver doesn’t drink—a drinking driver doesn’t
think. Everyone agrees that alcohol and gasoline won't mix,
hut nearly everyone thinks he hasn’t had too much. You don’t
have to be drunk to be dangerous.—National Safety Council.
“1 have the right-of-way"—famous last words of traffic.
Caution is the only winner in right-of-way arguments. If you
insist upon your rights, you are the dope you think the other
fellow is. It may not be your fault, but it’s your funeral.—
National Safety Council.
Way Back When . . .
Flowers Were Forbidden
For Junior Prom Dancers
By Dottie Habel and Trudi Chernis
Thirty Years Ago
Flowers were forbidden and
prices set at $1 for the Junior
Prom, “so that everyone may be
able to go.” A committee was ap
pointed to see that no one got in
side the door “with the sign of a
nosegay.”
* * *
“At a meeting of the student
body of Oregon Agricultural col
lege, a constitutional amendment
was proposed prohibiting freshmen
from smoking either cigars or
cigarettes in public.” It’s about
time!
Emerald ad: “A superb collec
tion of all that’s smart—fashion
able pumps and oxfords to the new
high-top boots. Newest models of
ivory kid and feature the new ivory
heels to match in this unique show
ing.”
The April Frolic neeted $46.20
for the women’s league. This was
to go to the fund f-or the erection
of a women’s building.
Twenty Years Ago
The loving cups awarded for the
winners of Song Week, Junior
Weekend, were presented to Pi
Beta Phi, women, and Beta Theta
Pi, men.
H: * *
For the first time in the history
of the University, total registra
tion reached 3000. The freshman
class was much larger than any
other class ever registered. And
they were proud!
Times have changed department:
"Friendly Hall and Theta Chi in
Net Finals.”
* He *
Double meaning: “A jolly bunch
of our young people went out on
a kodaking expedition Sunday that
resulted in many exposures and a
very enjoyable time.”
Ten Years Ago
The new Howe baseball field was
dedicated between showers at the
scheduled but postponed Oregon
OSC baseball game. The hundreds
of fans had hopes until the last
minute that the game would be
played.
❖ * *
A cut of $50,000 in the operating
budget of the state system of
higher education for 1936-37 was
approved by the state board.
Chancellor Hunter declared that
more revenue must be obtained to
prevent damage to the system.
* * *
The inter-fraternity council
adopted a sealed bid rushing sys
tem to be placed in effect next
term. The house presidents struck
out provisions permitting summer
pledging, before it was approved.
"With the sound of his famous
violin, Paul Pendarvis, maestro of
the Pacific coast’s outstanding or
chestra, will officially open the
1936 Journalism Jam. It is under
stood that Pendarvis plans to play
one of the songs written by Helen
I Jones, campus songwriter.”
Telling the Editor
About Registration . ..
What happens if you forget to
bring your yellow added-course slip
with you to your one-hour class
for your instructor to sign ?
And your imagination is too
slight to have realized what a mo
mentary “stamp” on a registration
card could involve miles and miles
of “red tape” taking hours and
hours. Having your mind changed
for you because one or another
class section is filled makes no
difference.
So next day you must go to
Johnson hall to get a yellow slip.
“You must go to this instructor
at that building and get his signa
ture and so on for each one.” You
have decided to add those two one
hour classes you wanted while you
are at it. “Be sure to get your
adviser’s signature at the end.”
You realize she is on the campus
but one day a week. You are mad
already.
iai\iu^ i/a> uii
As to when each one of these
dignitaries is taking the day off,
what time they’re going out for
coffee, when this and that meet
ing is going to start for which one
and how many hours it’s going to
last, which one has appointments
for where—these are unwritten
statistics.
The professor’s posting his of
fice hours on the door'gives little
if any enlightenment to all this.
You call up on the phone and get
inadequate or misrepresented in
formation, or no information at all.
You discover that as you make
your 13th, 14th and 15th trip, and
so on. This is no exaggeration.
Then if you just can’t get the
last signature in by the deadline,
you only have now to start over,
early hours and late hours, your
game of chance—getting data as
to why you are now late.
Surprisingly you still persist.
Come hack Tomorrow
The last requirement, weighty
enough, is the committee to gather
the data thug acquired so they can
fine you. “Come back tomorrow.”
. . . Now you want to kick and
scream, but that isn’t a socially ac
cepted outlet. You write it off in
stead.
Oh yes, you have your course to
digest meanwhile, but when ?
If a system could be arranged
whereby instructors could be in
their offices certain hours during
the two weeks of late registration
and have these hours published
they might find the G.P.A. of some
of their students going higher.
And on registration day, “red tape”
resulting from many little details
which require so much time could
be avoided. Have at McArthur
court a booth for each professor
to be stationed in through a rea
sonable part of that day.
Jean Korish.
Moiel
Oh Record
On the Classical Side ...
By Betty Bennett Cramer
An interesting premiere was
presented recently in New York
by the newly organized Festival
Negro Chorus. Written by Hall
Johnson, organizer and conductor
of the choir, the work is entitled
“Son of Man.” It is described as
a musical meditation in the Negro
idiom. Instead of being entirely
derived from the old-time spiritual,
the score is characterized by orig
inal songs and dramatic musical
| episodes. Hall Johnson is best
known as author and composer of
“Run Little Chillun” and musical
director of “The Green Pastures.”
Other Premieres
Other notable recent premieres
are Samuel Barber’s “Concerto for
Violoncello and Orchestra, Op. 22,
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Go4UjAeM*onal
Qommenti.
By Ted Hallock
We’uns in the starry-eyed school
are going to attend Harris Ellg>
worth’s lecture en masse. All three
of us. We are also going to ask
the good congressman to devote
five minutes of his allotted time
to “How I Put in My Vote Against
OPA, and Why.” For those who
care to know a wee bit more about
Mr. E. and his political philoso
phies, we recommend New Repub
lic’s summary of voting records,
or the Congressional Record it
self, as excellent biographical
reading.
Juan Peron has definitely stated
Argentina’s immigration policy:
preference to be given Italian,
Spanish, and Irish emigrants. Evi
dently the UN do not think it odd
that one fascist nation is openly
planning to harbor exiles and ex
cess from three other fascist na
tions. In case you wonder about
Eire being titled fascistic, we cite
a UP dispatch as of Wednesday:
“The Irish government has granfr
ed sanctuary to twelve German
and Japanese diplomats who are
still living openly in Eire despite
all Allied efforts to get them out.”
We are not defending the British
Empire, in condemning De Valera’s
regime, nor are we sanctioning
Eire’s role during the war and the
peace, as fitting her supposedly
neutral attitude. Just setting down
the facts.
More Pearl Harbor
Happened to pick up the Novem
ber 12, 1941, issue of the Record
last night and found some real
pearls of Congressional wisdom
therein. Said Mr. Hamilton Fish
in debate against amendment of
the neutrality act: “I am convinc
ed that America is making herself
invincible on land, sea, and air, and,
therefore, has nothing to fear
from foreign dictators now orfn“'
the future.” Which statement was
made less than one month before
our “invincible” navy met and
crushed the fascist forces at Pearl
Harbor.
It is true that, as a Republican,
Mr. Fish may have been denied
access to the files at G.H.Q., there
fore may not have sensed the im
minence of the Hawaiian disaster.
Yet we seem to recall reading in
the fairly accessible, and fairly
public, Encyclopedia Britannica,
about that time: “Army, U.S.;
standing strength: 235,000.” The
facts.
On that same day Mr. Smith, of
Virginia, seemed to feel that “labor
barons” were driving us to war and
were in strict cahoots with the
enemy. We don’t recall having
read of any C.I.O. class rings on
downed Jap pilots at P.H. Nor do
we remember whether it wasjj^^,
Pont or R. J. Thomas who financed
the newest Mitsubishi plant in Ja
pan. But of course those are only
the facts.
England’s Lands
Mr. Riphards, of South Carolina,
seemed to have lacked a little fore
sight, three weeks before Pearl
Harbor, when he said: “Would it
help England for us to go all-out
into this war now when the world
knows that- our non-belligerence
is the sole thing that is holding
Japan back from attacking Eng
lish possessions in the Pacific?’’
We weren’t aware that Hawaii
had been ceded to Great Britain
in 1941.
We were not too surprised to see
that Oregon’s Mr. Pierce held the
line. Said he: “You are either for
our American government, our
American ideals, and our Ameri
can way of life, and you are then -
on our side, or you are for the
Nazi ideal and you are on the side
of Hitler. There can be no neutrals.’’
We didn’t mean to re-hash Pearl
Harbor, but merely wanted to sh«Ktf
you part of “How Congressmen
Spent Their Day As Congressmen
on November 12, 1941.” We would
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