Oregon W Emerald
LOUISE MONTAG ANNAMAE WINSHIP
Editor Business Manager
MARGUERITE WITTWER GEORGE PEGG
Managing Editor Advertising Manager
JEANNE SIMMONDS
News Editor
MARILYN SAGE, WINIFRED ROMTVEDT
Associate Editors
Art Litchman, Tommy Wright
Co-Sports Editors
BYRON MAYO
Assistant Managing Editor
MARYANN THIELBN
Assistant News Editor
BERNARD ENGEL
Chief Copy Editor
ANITA YOUNG
Women’s Page Editor
GLENN SNYDER
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 *na
Inal exam periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon.
Entered as second-class matter at the poctoffice. Eugene, Oregon. _
Bao-h ot the 'IjeaA.. . .
When Oregon’s book of the year makes its debut today,
the whole campus will join with the educational activities
manager in acclaiming the Oregana as another winner.
From the full-color cover to Lemon Punch, its pages por
tray one of Oregon’s most unusual years, the year that started
on a wartime campus and ended in the midst of an acute housing
shortage. Signs of reconversion appear in its use of color and
other devices as well as in the pictures of events.
To the staff, the book will mean the successful result of
hours of work, making layouts, doing artwork, identifying and
organizing pictures, writing copy, selling ads, and handling
the details that make the Oregana a journalistic and financial
success. When staff members issue the Oregauas today, they
also will remember the printing difficulties that threatened to
hold up circulation until after Junior Weekend.
A complete sell-out, the Oregana needs no boosters to put
it over. It can win its enthusiasts on its own merits.
WiM&uiebL Beauty?. . .
As one finds beauty in a wilderness, he can find it in the
Odd Fellows cemetery south of the campus. Kven the most
ardent lover of natural beauty, however, will have to stretch
his imagination to piece the fragments, namely the tall firs,
the occasional patches of wild flowers, and the maible head
stones, into a pleasing landscape.
If plans go right, this ill-kept piece of property will be
cleaned up by Memorial Day. Already approximately $1000
has been donated to a Cemetery Cleanup Fund in Eugene, and
it is the hope of Ben F. Dorris, chairman of the I ioneer I ark
Association, that $3000 will be raised by May 15. This money
would be used for pruning and trimming in this cemetery, and
in the Masonic cemetery south of town.
Since the cemetery is quasi-campus, with McArthur court
to the east, it is to the University’s interest to have this wilder
ness cleaned up. Campus organizations who can afford it then
might well contribute to this fund. Checks, made out to the
Cemetery Cleanup Fund, or cash may be left at the First Na
tional Bank, or with Fred Stickels, treasurer.
Money in excess of the $3000 will be used to stait a pci
manent endowment project. What could eventually be done
with the cemetery has been suggested by Eyler Brown, acting
dean of the school of architecture and allied arts. He is com
pleting a water color sketch, picturing a beautiful park, with
flush markers, lawns and shrubs planted, and a I ioneer Mt
morial Chapel. Such improvement would add greatly to the
beauty of the campus, and is a goal which the F niversity should
encourage.
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Rather disgustedly, I would like to point out that those
15 old men who, somehow, summoned the necessary strength
to write in and gripe about certain traditions, most certainly
do not represent all the veterans. At the risk of being literary,
may I remind these ancients that traditions were some of the
things we all went out and fought for! _
They swell with pride ana spe**
of the horrors of Guadalcanal and
Iwo tas can millions of others).
Come now fellows, after all that,
is a mere hack going to put you
in bed? There are many veterans
here now, and most assuredly, the
largest vet enrollment will come
next fall, so perhaps now' is as
good a time as any to decide
whether the veterans are to be
placed in any special, hallowed
class. If so, let us all wear skull
caps made of old campaign rib
bons, thus making ourselves easily
identifiable and eliminating the
possibility of our being bruised. If
not ... if we're going to be “one
of the boys," let's quit whining
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By Betty Bennett Cramer
An American composition of
great popularity, Ferde Grofe’s
“Grand Canyon Suite” has recent
ly been admirably recorded by Tos
canini and the NBC Symphony
Though many of us consider
Grofe’s music inferior in many
ways to other less popular Ameri
can works, the excellence of this
recording should be noted.
The work is divided into five sec
tions, an opening “Sunrise,” fol
lowed by “Painted Desert,” “On
the Trail,” “Sunset,” and “Cloud
burst.” Undoubtedly the most pop
ular of these is “On the Trail,”
which is given grotesque comicality
without unnecessary cheapness by
Mr. Toscanini.
Delicacy of Balance
The technical quality of the re
cording is commendable as all the
climaxes and tonal shadings of
the orchestration are realized with
unusual delicacy of balance. In
particular, the effects of “Cloud
burst” are especially fine. This
album far outclasses any other pre
vious issue.
This same orchestra’s rare re
leases of operatic excerpts are al
ways eagerly awaited. Not disap
pointing in any way is Rose Bamp
ton’s interpretation of Deonore’s
dramatic aria “Abscheuhicher, Wo
Eilst Du Hin” (Thou Monstrous
Fiend’ from the first act of Bee
thoven’s “Fidelio.” Miss Bampton
portrays with true dramatic tech
nique the pathos of Leonore plead
ing for her imprisoned husband
Florestan. This is only a single, and
well worth the dollar.
Bach Concerto
Of all the violin concerti that
the great Johann Sebastian Bach
composed, only about half have
survived; the rest have been lost.
The “Concerto in D Minor” for two
violins and orchestra has been pre
served only by the discovery of the
parts, copied in Bach’s own hand.
Adolph Busch and Frances Magnes
play this work with great feeling
and true understanding of the style.
Not quite as brilliant as Yehudi
Menuhin’s interpretation of the
same work.
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By PAT KING
Chevrolet is the largest single industrial organization to
enter the field of television so far. The company will sponsor
four consecutive shows from New York over ABC, which will^_
be the most elaborately-staged commercial television series ever
attempted by a major network. A different approach and tech
nique will be used on each program so that the potentialities of
television will be utilized to maKe
the series outstanding.
NBC will have a television cov
erage of the Louis-Conn fight.
Mike Jacobs, president of the
Twentieth Century Sporting club,
Inc., believes that it will be a great
boon to the fight business. Three
of the five cameras to be used will
employ the super-sensitive RCA
image orthicon camera tube which
is capable of picking up scenes by
the light of a match.
Alum Soloist
Marie Rogndahl will be the so
prano soloist on Great Moments
in Music, which will feature the
music of Johann Strauss tonight
over CBS at 6.
Last Thursday, Bing Crosby was
given a surprise birthday party
when Bob Hope marched in wear
ing a messenger’s cap and carrying
a giant cake topped with a torch
of 100 flaming candles. While John
Scott Trotter’s orchestra broke
into “Happy Birthday,” the two
kissed each other lovingly on the
forehead.
Robert Cummings, movie actor,
is the latest to be given away for
a first prize in a radio contest.
Irene Rich, Joan Leslie, and Grade
Allen will decide who writes the
best 25 words to the question “How
and Where I’d Like to Spend a
Day With Robert Cummings” in
the Erskine Johnson contest. The
winner may carry out her wishes.
I wonder if Cummings is doing the
wise thing. . .
Fast Talking
Off Mike: Jay Stewart, emcee
of Answer Auction, speaks 225
words a manute during the fast
action part of the show. His regu
lar speaking rate is 150, which
goes up to 180 for speedy com
mercials.
One of the original Quiz Kids
just graduated from the University
of Chicago on the day before his
nineteenth birthday. He’s a Phi
Beta Kappa, of course.
Lou Costello plans to have the
Browsing...
With Joe Young
“The fack can’t be no longer dis
gised that a Krysis is onto us. . .
Why is this thus ? What is the rea
son of this thusness?”. . . Artemus
Ward. . . This thusness seems to
be all the pro and con analysis of
whether a local ration of spam and
soybeans will add a morsel to the
international porridge pot.. . Some
where between the ultras of gaunt
prospects of simulated famine
meals and the infras of the gastro
nomic bourgeoisie who feel no re
sponsibility in such things . . .
somewhere between must come the
realization that nations are looking
to us as A-manna-merica. . . For
palpable results of this realization
.... Calories for the heart, even
when. wheat and meat shares are
dropping, are words like these, “I
have received the parcels that you
so kindly sent. . . They arrived in
perfect condition and were very
welcome because of the lack of
food which we always suffer here
... Bras du Chapitre, Creteil
(Seine), France”. . .
After a 15-minute student
count in the second-floor hall
of the libe, it seems that the
average Webfoot prefers to
waddle along in blissful nes
cience of any Russian question.
. . . Rubbing shoulders with
the SSR poster-exhibit along
this hall, hut showing no curi
osity. . . Perhaps they don’t
want to taint their private part
of public opinion with any new
or diversionary information on
Ukraine, Azerbajan, Armenia,
Kazakstan, or others of the
16 Soviet Republics. . . Doubt
if you’ll be labeled “red” if you
stop and see if anything is of
fered that might add to a lib
eral education. . .
Still on topics of the prejudicial
nature that are awaiting conver
sion as surely as industry and eco
nomics, and are handicapped even
more by the backhand of racial
cliches. . . With Mother's Day com
ing up, Mrs. Clarissa Clement is
honored as the American—not
black or white—Mother of 1946.
A college president, ARC director,
USA Chaplain, professors, and
other talented children present
quite a challenge—even to us who
recreation building and other parts
of the Lou Costello Jr. Youth
Foundation in Los Angeles ready
by fall.
Meredith Wilson has composed
a symphonic work called “Radio
Suite” in three parts with part one
as “George and Gracie,” part two
as “Sunday Morning,” and part
three as “Fibber McGee’s Closet.”
On Cavalcade of America last
week, a small crisis arose when
the announcer realized the irony of
the situation if he signed off the
program which was a drama on
Alcoholics Anonymous, with his
name—so he finished off with the
words “This is Tom W. Collins in
viting you to listen next week. . .”
Jilted Producer
The producer was left waiting at
the church last week when tlft"
last ten minutes of “Married for
Life” was customarily switched to
the church for the just-before-the
marriage interview with the bride
and bridegroom-to-be. The couple
didn’t show up, and all the har
rassed producer could do was fill
in the time with a tenor warbling
“O Promise Me”—ten minutes’
worth.
“Going My Way” prototypes
have now hit radio. A new series
of the veteran morning serial “The
O’Neills” has taken a different di
rection with Danny O’Neill as
Father O’Neill doing his best to
disentangle the problems of the
folks in his parish.
Highlights
Tonight: Cass Daley on the Bob
Crosby show at 5:30 over CBS. . .
Chester Bowles, director of
Office of Economic Stabilization,
will give another talk on the Amer
ican scale of living costs over
KORE at 9:45.
Thursday: Jackie Cooper on
“Suspense.”
Friday: The King’s Men will
premiere on their own show over
KGW at 8:15. Each week’s pro
gram will feature the story behind
the writing of some melody. . .
Martha Scott stars in “Victoria,”
on Carrington Playhouse over
KORE at 8:30. The drama was
written by a veteran and takes
its seting from the year 1939.
have no white hurdles to jump. . .
A good book presenting- the
life of progressive, hardwork
ing, and thrifty Negroes and
specifically designed for the
average Negro child, is not an
ordinary publication. . . My
Happy Days, a photographic'
representation of the real life
of a Negro family, is a book
written by a Negro for chil
dren and is not suggested as an
immediate addition to a colle
giate library. . . For us, Jane
Dabney Shackelford’s signa
ture presenting the book to our
personal library adds to its
physical value, but for all,
there is an elementary charm
in the pictorial and verbal
stepping stones to racial toler
ance. . .
Will brush aside comments on
the green ribbon and non-smoking
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