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Dregon ft Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the University of Oregon, published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and final examination periods. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Ore. Member of the Associated Collegiate Press SOB FRAZIER, Editor BOB CHAPMAN, Business Manager -w BILL YATES Managing Editor JUNE GOETZE. BOBOLEE BROPHY Co-News pditors walt McKinney, jeanne simmonds, maryann thielen Associates to Editor WALLY HUNTER Sports Editor PHYLLIS KOHLMEIER HELEN SHERMAN Assistant Managing Editors BARBARA TWIFORD Advertising Manager Editorial Board: Harry Glickntan, Johnny Kahananui, Bert Moore, Ted Goodwin, Bill Stratton, Jack Billings. ft's Up To You For the fourth time in the history of Oregon’s bills and legis lation, the sales tax will come before the voters. On Tuesday, the polls will be open from 8 to 8, with a special polling place provided for University students, where the voters may regis ter their ayes and nays. This sales tax, according to authoritative sources, will not be a new tax—but rather a redistributed one. Instead of upping property taxes, and state income taxes, which would be neces sary because of increased costs of state government, the sales tax would supplement the present incoming funds to an esti mated $22,000,000—the necessary cash. A three-cent-on-the dollar affair, the proposed tax, if passed by the required two thirds of the Oregon voters, will be on a pay-as-you-go basis, which may or may not be preferable to the quarterly, semi annual or annual tax paying setup. The tax would fall, essen tially, on all retail purchases except food bought for household consumption, or ‘‘food for human consumption off the premi ses,” as the bill states. Excepted from this will be motor fuels, newspapers, religious literature, and some personal property which is not taxable because of federal and state constitutions. Twenty-seven states have sales taxes at this date, with Ore gon’s neighbors California and Washington in the fold, and Idaho and Nevada outside. According to statistics compiled from the bill, which was passed by the 44th Legislature under its official title, “Enrolled House Bill No. 460,” the tax will be distributed as follows: one sixth to the 36 Oregon counties, based on their assessed valua tions ; one-sixth to the cities, based on population; one-sixth to old-age assistance (to make up whatever is lacking in net liquor revenues); one-sixth to schools, based on pupil atten dance, and two-sixths to the general fund for general govern mental purposes. The Emerald does not advocate either pro or con policy. It does advocate that every voter registered in Lane county and attending the University investigate the bill further if he feels this information to be inadequate, and vote on the basis of the findings. The polling place for students will be located in University high school at 16tlrand Alder streets. J.B.S. High Cost Of Awakening Coffee (even black coffee) costs 10 cents a cup almost any where in the University community. Time was that it cost a nickel. From this we may gather that inflation has hit the Wil lamette valley, and that the cost of keeping awake has gone up 100 per cent. This has aroused a degree of criticism, although it has not resulted in any serious decrease in the quantity of coffee con sumed by the Oregon student body. While the Oregon student mutters his hoarse complaints, and orders a second cup (which he can get for a nickel), there are strange things happening in California. In the Los Angeles area, according to the wire services, coffee is selling for three cents a cup at some of the chain drug stores. A coffee tycoon warns that the great American drink may face stiff competi tion from the 5-cent beverages. "With all this in mind, we engaged the proprietor of our favor ite campus bistro in conversation the other day. We talked about business—his. Coffee, he reports, costs 4*4 cents a cup. He saws-lie can't operate on a ■*) cent profit. Our source, a man of undisputed honesty and character, threw in the following facts about the coffee business. \\ e pass them on for the information of the University's coffe-consuming clique: Sugar at about $9.50 the 100-pound sack, is up 25 per cent over the pre-war level. Coffee, cream, labor, cups, rent, neat, light, gas, oil, and life insurance are also up. The figures are available, but become meaningless after a time. In the first six days he was open this fall, he lost (or broke) 17 cups. Good china cups cost 65 cents. The pottery jobs don’t pay, he says. A little quich mental arithmetic indicates our man would have to sell 1473 cups of nickel coffee before he d pay, he says. A little quick mental arithmetic indicates our coffee for 10 cents, he need sell only 190 cups to make up this loss, as any fool can plainly see. If we figure the second cup at 5 cents, and that not everybody buys a second cup, then our man’s story begins to get a little involved. Before the war, by the way, these cups cost 18 cents. Most places which charge a dime for coffee, are willing to throw in a doughnut “free.” The doughnut costs about 2Vz cents. Take it from there. Of course there is also the device of running out of dough nuts about mid-morning. This is unfortunate, our man reports, and is not an intentional trick to bilk the customer into coming through with another 2 and Vz cents profit. The restaurant business, he contiues, aims for a 20 per cent mark-up. In August Oregon restaurants realized an average of only 11.3. Furthermore August is a peak month. Things always get slower in the winter. Looking real pitiful our man ex plained items such as heat and keeping the door closed that don't figure into the summer statement. Now coke is different. Coke is still a good thing at a nickel. The syrup costs $1.85 a gallon, and a gallon of syrup makes 132 cokes if you don’t spill any, or give anybody too much. Of course, he points out, you might fail to collect from somebody. Coke glasses break, too. Milk is also a good deal. It costs a nickel and sells for a dime. “People,” he comments, “should drink more milk.” That seems to be the story. Coffee at a nickle is a gift item. Our man wonders about a 7-cent cup. He thought about it over the summer, but discarded the idea because of the penny prob lem. Our Eleventh street operative, though, reports an establish ment in his neck of the woods that still sells coffee for a nickel. Publishers Note: In order to participate in the what-happened-when game, it is necessary for the student to invest in an impressive number of tomes each year so that he too can raise his hand in class. This neat requirement plays right into the publisher's hands, and every year hundreds of thousands of beautifully bound textbooks, awesome in their newness, are distributed among university bookstores to be sold in turn to the eager,knowledge seeking student. Some of the light dies from his shining eyes when he receives the bill for his beautiful books. Plunking down an average of $17, he somehow feels these handsomely bound volumes are a little too fine for the rough use he will give them. For one thing, no one will dispute the fact that it rains quite a bit at Oregon. Covers fade and pages ripple and depreciation sets in at a startling rate. The underlining method, employed by those who have read their “Good Studying Habits” book let, doesn’t add to resale value either. Students find an equally sad situation when they attempt to sell their used texts, only to discover that a newer edition or completely different book has been selected for the course. Several courses at the Univecsity are using 25-cent pocket book editions for outside reading. Last year's Twentieth cen tury literature course used the Modern Library series at 95 cents each for their studies of the novel. These books are well bound and more suitable for student purposes. We suggest the publishers think about putting out more cheaply bound texts for college students so our minds would not register $3 or $5 winging away as one of our books drops into a mud puddle. Lower-priced volumes would also leave something besides lint in our pockets and gaping emptiness in our billfolds at the end of registration. Of course, for those who use their books strictlv as show, we I suggest they continue buying the “purty” ones. M.E.T. i Old Oregon Changes Hands Bert Moore is now editor of Old Oregon, replacing Harry Cdickman who put out the alumni magazine all last year. We're sorry to see Harry leave, but if he must, Bert is an excellent choice for the job. Both students are on the Emerald editorial board, and we know them both from years back. Under Harry Glickman's pen the magazine doubled in cir culation. and developed into a publication of interest to per sons who were not alumni. But it did not lose its original Webfoot flavor. We think it’s pretty good. Glickman, who will graduate in January, is responsible for most of the improve ment in Old Oregon. Bert Moore, who writes a movie column for the Emerald, has distinguished himself as a writer, an oracle of sorts, and a fountain of miscellaneous information. There should be no lowering of Old Oregon standards under the new leadership. i "V <n* Second By BETTY ANN STEVENS Proving that a true gentleman always behaves in a gentlemanly fashion, no matter the circumstanc es, is this tale of Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, former chancellor of Austria. The small, bespectacled gentle man, garbed in undershirt and hanging suspenders, was surprised in his downtown room by reporters. With plu-perfect aplomb he assent ed to an interview in his “you-all” German accent. Then he bowed low from the waist. All of which causes one to pon der the reaction of an undergar mented Loretta Young if a report er walked in and caught her in sus penders. A curtsy, perhaps ? * * * An imperfect stranger ap proached Pat King on Thirteenth the other day. “Aren’t you at Ore gon State?” she burbled brightly. Rather defensively, Pat explained that “No, she wasn’t going to O.S.Q.” “Oh, but you told me you were,” the stranger persisted. Pat, thinking she had mistaken her for a freshman counsellee, pointed out that she had been here for two years, and had no intention of transferring. Whereup the strang er cheerily threw over her shoul der, "Oh, you must Jiave changed your mind.” Piqued, Pat trundled on to her woodlore class. Even if she had been considering Oregon State, Larry Lau’s column on the curriculum Over There would have scotched the idea. * * * Campus life, under the G. I. Bill, say most of those who keep a rup tured duck in the upper righthand bureau drawer, is not hay. It’s fierce, they tell you, waiting for the eagle to scream. Something new under the heavyside layer, however, was the veteran who in sisted that Emerald hall authori ties pay him his monthly subsist ence In Advance. 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