DAILY EMERALD Thursday, January 16, 1947 Page 2 Oregon7# Emerald MARfStnERlTE WITTWER-WRIGHT GEORGE PEGG 2}4itor Business Manager BOB FRAZIER, TED GOODWIN Associates to Editor JACK L. BILLINGS Managing Editor BILL YATES New» Editor MARYANN THIELEN and walt mckinney Assistant Managing Editors BOBOLEE BROPHY and JUNE GOETZE Assistant News Editors JEANNE SIMMUNDa Feature Editor t/UUU Advertising Manager BERNIE HAMMERBECK Sports Editor WTT.T. STRATTON, WALLY HUNTER Assistant Sports Editors DON JONES DICK BYFILELD Staff Photographer Chief Copy Desk Editor Signed editorial features and columns in the Emerald reflect the opin ions of the writers. They do not necessarily represent the opinion of the editorial staff, the student body, or the University. Entered as second class matter at the poa toff ice, Eugene, Oregon. 20th Century ‘Spectator’ Wednesday “The Pacific Spectator,” a new quarterly jour nal of interpretive opinion sponsored by 20 Pacific coast uni versities and colleges, made its appearance. Edited by six emi nent California writers and professors, published by the Stan ford university press, The Spectator “will maintain world-wide perspective,” according to a press release. “The Pacific Spectator makes its bid for a place in the sun on the conviction that the country at large should know more of the growing contribution which Pacific coast authors and scholars are making to American letters, "Donald P. Bean, di rector of the Stanford press explains. The editors are determined to produce a magazine not dominated by any coterie or group predisposed to a particular ized creed. The Spectator’s field of discussion is limitless; its opinions will be varied. The press releases sounded good. The first edition is even better than we had expected. And we are proud that the Uni versity of Oregon is among those institutions supporting the project. Through some regretable oversight, Oregon was not mentioned in the first releases" but due credit is given this school in the first edition's list of sponosrs. We note sadly that only one Oregonian, R. F. Arragon of Reed, is included in the 14-man advisory board. In loyalty to the University, to our list of alumni nationally known for excel lence in their specialized fields, to our faculty members equally well qualified to participate actively in any committee for the humanities, we must express the hope that future editions of the journal recognize this institution. If our financial support was welcomed, we are sure that our advisory and literary con tributions should be welcomed as cordially. The west coast institutions of higher education have some times been characterized as producers of fairly good foresters and football teams. Their activity in literature and the fine arts has received a minimum of publicity. This Spectator, which has for its purpose the interpretation and discussion of enduring' human values, which will concern itself with history in its human implications, to treat of men and events as they affect intellectual and social currents, has been a long time com ing. We are glad it is here. We wish it a successful future. We hope the West takes The Spectator to heart as a Worthy product. Literary ‘Puddles’ 11 our academic midwife, the educational activities board, handles the forceps skillfully, Oregon may soon witness the birth of a monthly "slick" magazine patterned after Washing ton’s "Columns” and "The New orker." Jim Prior, Jack Puffinbarger, and Win Kelker have been hard at work drawing up pieliminary plans tor the magazine. "Puddles” tentatively has been chosen as the name, and contents will probably include humorous features, cartoons, and stories. Last summer Austin "Suds" Chaney and Larry Lau were planning; to launch a similar publication under Emerald spon sorship. Chaney, however, turned out to prefer disk jockeying at KUGN and the whole scheme fell flat. Oregon has long needed a monthly "Lemon Punch. We hope "Puddles" will fill the bill (that's no pun, son). The next time you’re tempted to gripe, go ahead and gripe. (Tripe good and'hard . . . bpt do something about it . . . find the remed\ for the gripe! —Anon. If we had no faults, we should not take so, much pleasure! in noticing them in others. -—La Rochefoucauld, Black or White Tie? "Formal affairs are not the common thing on this campus. Indeed for some girls—those who talked their parents out of large wads of cash for glamor "formals”—they may be all too infrequent. It is not too much to assume that many women who put out a lot of money last August for a good-looking "formal” have not yet had an excuse to wear it. The senior ball January 25 will be their excuse, and we are confident they will all look stunning in their long dresses with no back and a minimum of front.. Nobody begrudges the right of the American girl to "dress up ’ now and then. With men the situation is a little different.' I here are not many going to school this year under the G. 1. bill who feel justified in buying a "tux” which they might wear twice all year long. While formal attire can be rented inexpensively at downtown men's stores, there are a lot of men who balk at going to a dance in somebody else’s clothes. The senior ball committee is to be commended on their good judgment in okaying dark suits for their annual dance. Per sons possessing a Aveird affinity for the “boiled shirt can still wear their tuxes if they wish. Telling the Editor ABOUT BEAUTY ON THE SPOT This new feature, “Beauty on the Spot,” is in a fair way to put it fur ther on the spot. Miss Carolyn Hin son’s juvenile “back to Hoover-days reasoning,” is not based on factor any reasonable facsimile thereof. For a girl who has obviously spent the-major portion of her life filing finger nails and putting up hair, to come out with such an out cry against legal decision of one of our country’s highest courts, would be funny, if it wasn’t the bleating of just one more sheep in the man agement fold. In the first place, Miss Hinson, portal to portal pay does not mean pay for all the time spent in the place of business. The word orig inally Came from suits placed by miners in the country, who felt that the time they spent getting down into the mines and up out of them again, on elevators and in the connecting shafts, were entitled to pay for that time. If you were not a girl and had lived anything but the perfect sheltered life of the av erage sorority girl, you would real ize the dangers of time spent in a mine shaft. I have seen men crip pled and maimed from work in the mines and can point out men on the streets of Eugene who will be phy sical wrecks as long as they live be cause of accidents in the logging camps of Oregon. Some time when you really feel like roughing it, drag yourself out of bed at 4:30 a.m. and ride 35 miles on a cold rough-riding logging jit ney. Climb out of that jitney and load yourself with about 50 pounds of falling equipment, falling saw, axe, undercutter and a half dozen big wedges. Then walk two miles over down timber to work. The portal to portal pay suits are legal under the National Labor Re lations Act, and the unions filing them are morally and legally entit led to them. The propaganda you have been reading, in case you don’t know it, is anti-labor, put out by ★McKENZIE IN SPRINGFIELD THE MARX BROTHERS "A NIGHT IN CASABLANCA" "JUNIOR PROM" FREDDIE STEWART JUNE PREISSER fTATE v THEATRE 5 BEDLAM and DANGER WOMEN I the bosses and the NAM, who own or control 98 per cent of our so called free press. Your article would get front page coverage in any of the Hearst, Scripps Howard chains and probably get put on over the air from Colonel McCormacks, Chica go Tribune. Why don’t we just shoot all those troublesome workers, so Miss Hin son won’t have to bother her pretty head about them. Bruce A. Bishop. VARSITY SERVICE STATION 13th and Hilyard Streets Eugene, Oregon Attention social chairmen Plave a cameraman on the spot to take pictures of that dance or party. You’ll want them— the gang will want them For photography at its best—at any time, any place call JERRY McNEW Phone 5009-M SIDE PATTER BOB WHJTELY Operative Z-4 reports great newlS from the Theta Chi house to wit: Dick “Sledge” Steelhammer hung his pin on cute Toby West of the Delta Zeta clan. Love has kicked brother Steelhammer in the teeth at last and really picked a big win ner. Red Skelton also of the same clan has really learned fraternity manners. After being coached and coached on meeting strangers that come in the house, young Skelton showed a stranger the cups and warmly started in on Theta Chi history. The stranger listened ’in tently, and then politely announced that he had come for the house dry cleaning! The Phi Phis hit the trail again this week when Bob Blood worth placed his cop’s badge on DG Elsa Binum. The tong hauled out their much used box and in chilling circumstances dumped Bloodworth in the snow in front of the DG house. Elsa attacked the box wi.th such vigor and careless abandon that fears were felt for his saf^y. When she finally did get him out, the lovers peck that ensued melted the snow off the roofs of three houses and nine windows in the house cracked from the heat. The friendly Alpha Chis announce that there will be an open house at the local tong Friday night after the game, and that everyone is invited. Nothin but the best in music sez they. The jolly Pi Phis chalked up another one when Helen “Ham burger” Eichemeyer took SAE Glenn Wilson’s pin. Who’s left un pinned over there anyway ? The In side Straight and Thanotopsis club will hold their weekly meeting at “Major” Gene Brown’s following the game Friday night. This cold weather is causing many com plaints to piggers who bewail lack of space in various living organi zations. For the last week it’s been Meet the people” in sun porches all over the campus. Watch Oregon take Corn Valley Friday night . .'. but you never have to watch your hat at the Side. For dates, donuts and coffee . . . it’s the Side . . . natcherly.—Pd! Adv. It's time for Winter Term Dances So it's time to those formats have cleaned at