Oregon H herald
ALL-AMERICAN 1946-47
The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of cne 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, Ure.
Member of the Associated Collegiate Press
OOB FRAZIER, Editor
BILL YATES
Managing Editor
BOB CHAPMAN, Business Manager
JUNE GOETZE. BOBOLEE BROPHY
Co'-News Editors
IJON FAIR
Co-Sports Editor
FRED TAYLOR
HELEN SHERMAN
Assistant Managing Editor:
WINNY CARL
Advertising Manager _
walt McKinney, jeanne simmonds, maryann thielen
Associates to Editor__
DIANA DYE ~ JIM WALLACE
Assistant Nws Editors __
National Advertising Manager.BiVii'iM^’^ethmillS
Editorial Board: Harry Glickman, Johnny Kahananui, Bert Moore, Ted Goodwin, Bill
Strattor., Jack Billings. __
Office"Manager .Mar«e Huston Foster
It's Music to Our Ears
Every student, each term, pays a $5 incidental fee in his
$42.50 (or $92.50, depending on where he spends his summer).
From this, athletic and educational activities appropriations
are withdrawn. The Eugene Civic Music Association series
comes under the heading of an educational activity, no matter
how painless some of the productions may be. in other woids,
each student pays for the program—why doesn t eacli stu
dent enjoy it?
Tomorrow afternoon, at a time when all students should
be up and around and ready for a musical interlude, Miklos
Gafni, Hungarian tenor, will appear at McArthur court. What
is more delightful than that most students will still be dressed
the Sunday dinner clothes, and won t have to dress for the
in the Sunday dinner clothes, and won t have to dress for the
concert, is the fact that the whole thing is free.
Among Gafni’s selections will be Caro mio ben, by Giro
dani; Scarlatti's O Sassate di piagarmi; Lenski's Aria from
Eugene Onegin by Tschaikowsky; and a selection of Neopoli
tan folk songs. Gafni will sing a few of his native Hungarian
folksongs, the only music that he knew for the earliest years of
his life, for it was just a year ago that he made his American
debut, having spent his childhood and youth in Hungary.
Finden’s Cashmiri Long Song and Charles When l Have
Sung my Song will also be presented on the program as
representative bits of more contemporary work.
Mention the words “educational activities" to a student,
and that student can immediately picture many fascinated stu
dents in French Communistic glasses sitting around discuss
ing the exchange value of the louis and the rupee. But men
tion the name of a good musician or group of musicians sched
uled on the year’s series, and the same student might just go
and get his tuition and fee’s money worth.
10 Years Ago
(From Emerald Files)
John Warren’s frosh hoopnien opened their 1938 season
by losing a game but out-classed Franklin high team 40-22
and 49-29.
Reward for hours of gruelling study last term was given
to 118 students when the periodic roll of “honor-brights” who
maintained a GPA of 3.50 and higher was released from the
registrar's office. Eight students piled up a straight 4 point
average.
Making a clean sweep of their two-game series with Wash
ington State's Cougars, defending champions, the Oregon
basketball forces sounded a warning to other northern divi
sion quintets to keep their eyes on Hobby Hobson’s entry in
the race.
Dr. Donald Krb. newly chosen president of the University
of Oregon, will make his debut to the student body at the first
assembly of the winter term in Gerlinger hall.
Less than one-seventh of the 3120 students on the Uni
versity of Oregon campus are entirely dependent for all of
their luuds, while 30 per cent are "grown up" in every sense
of the word and earn all of their money, a survey made by
the registrar's office recently showed.
Journalism runs in the family, Dean Eric W. Allen of the
school of journalism commented here today, after a survey dis
covered that students in his school include 12 children of
newspaper families and two other students related to members
of the craft.
The news staff of the Oregon Daily Emerald will meet in
Room 105 Journalism building for a regular re-organization
meeting.
“Ah! Wilderness" will be the next campus production of
the University theater studio.
Through a Glass
_Darkly
By KIRK BRAUN
A voice booms out of the man
aging editor’s cubicle:
“Hey, Braun, get over to the
Beta Haffa Dolla house and take
a picture of the “Committee for the
Improvement of College Side
Bridge Games” for tomorrow’s
Emerald, will you?”
“Sure, sure,” mutters the weary
photographer, as he tears himself
away from the Police Gazette and
gathers up. his photofloods, light
meters, gadget bags, headache
pills, collapsible tripods and mis
cellaneous paraphernalia.
Ten minutes later he trudges
back -into the Emerald shack.
He forgot the camera.
Mumbling into his hypo-stained
beard, he stumbles through the rain
to the said house and confronts the
most interesting subject that a
would-be news cameraman can
find. Yippee skippee, a commit
tee!
What a multitude of interesting
angles it presents. He can take
them standing, sitting or lying on
the floor. After deciding that the
administration might frown upon
photographing a mixed group on
the floor, ■ he tries to get the
screaming, babbling bunch of idiots
to sit still long, enough for a pic
ture. This won't work either, since
there are so many of them that
some must sit on other's laps and
the higher-ups would frown upon
that also.
So that leaves the choice of hav
ing the little activity kids line up
in nice, neat, little rows on the
steps.
After listening to all the little
“funnys” concerning the “birdie,”
the breaking of the lens and other
little gems that went out with
Brady and his glass negatives, the
group is quieted and the shutter is
fired.
No flash bulb.
One wise guy quips, “I told you
it wouldn't work.” So the photog
rapher puts in a bulb and the whole
group is blinded—but the picture
is taken. The committee immedi
ately disappears and no one knows
who was standing next to whom—
but that doesn’t matter; the same
people are always on every com
mittee.
The next scene finds the photog
rapher in the darkroom. A screech
ing cry is heard to filter through
the heavy walls—“Nodamnfilmin
thecamera!!”
This, however, presents no dif
ficult problem. Our hero just digs
into his negative file (heaped up in
one corner of the darkroom along
with old Esquires and empty beer
bottles) and comes up with a print
of the “Committee for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Dance Cleanup
Committees.” This he turns over
to the managing editor with a sat
isfied smile. After all, the same
people are always on every com
mittee.
The photographer then retires,
but not before gnashing his teeth
at managing editor Yates and
Ike 2ud<4i Bide
What’s to have fun?—From 'a
classified personals column
"Any young females around not
afraid of fun via mail?”
* * *
Theatrical hazards, 17th cen
tury style—From Samuel Pepys
diary of Jan. 28, 1660: "Dined at
home, and after dinner to Fleet
Streete with my sword to Mr.
Brigden . . . and with him to an
alehouse . . . and thence to the
Theatre, where I saw again "The
Lost Lady,” which do now please
me better than before; and here
t sitting behind in a dark place,
a lady spit backward upon me by
mistake, not seeing me; but af
ter seeing her to be a very pretty
lady, I was not troubled at it at
all . . .”
❖ # *
Via France — We like Dr. G.
Wright’s French joke about the
man who asked in a book store
for a copy of the new French con
stitution and was told that the
store did not deal in periodicals.
* * *
More things French — PM
tells the story about a lady who
took two buyers to lunch at a
Frepch restaurant in New York’s
East 40s. Striving to be smooth
and casual, she summoned the
waiter after the meal.
"L’addition, s’il vous plait,” she
said.
“Down those stairs,” said the
waiter. "First door to the left.”
* * *
Grog—The word “grog” h§.s an
interesting history. Admiral Ed
wai'd Vernon wore a cloak of
grogram (French grosgrain, a
coarse grain taffeta) and was
called “Old Grog” as a result. In
1740 he issued an order which re
quired that the British sea-dogs
drinking water be adulterated
with rum (or was it the other
way around?) As a consequence
the mixture was dubbed grog,
according to reliable sources.
Vets May Pick Up
Supplies at Co-op
Veterans may now receive their
basic supplies at the Co-op upon
presentation of their vets card'.
The system of packaging the sup
plies is not being followed this
year, co-op managers announced,
because it is thought more effi
cient to let the individual student
select the items he needs.
Under this system the student
selects the kind and amount, with
in limits, of basic supplies needed
for his particular course of study.
The supplies are then charged to
to him through his veterans card.
screaming, “Don’t forget the credit
line!”
(Editor’s note: We sent Braun
out a little later to shoot another
committee and the last word we
have of him is that he collapsed and
had to be taken to the infirmary.
Before lapsing into a coma, he ut
tered the words—“Gawd, a NEW
face!”)
Stop that, \\ aldo—Mother gets a nickel back on the bottle.”
*
ROTC Cadets -
Win New Rates
Winter term non-commissioned "
officer ratings for the first yeas
advanced ROTC cadets were an- _
nounced yesterday by Colonel
Frank R. Maerdian, professor of
military science and tac tics and -
head of the military science de*.
partment.
First sergeants John R. Donald,
Bob Reed, Wyman Hammer, Don*
aid R. Clark, Robert J. Quick, and „
Walter J. McFarland.
Master sergeans: Richard B.
Smith, Carl S. Miller, and Charles *
A. Rufner. -
Technical sergeants: Harry A. ^
Edwards, Paul McCracken, Thom
as R. Sandemeyer, Arthur B. El
bon Jr., James S. Snyder, Donald -
K. Schmieding, Walter L. Miller,,
Kenneth J. Duncan, Walter W.
Privett, Roger W. Wahlgren, Low-1*
ell Chase, Don E. Wadsworth, Rob
in P. Arkley, Richard L. Clark, ^
Robert F. Phillips, Wesley R. Mil- |
ler, Steve Gann Jr., and Robert D". |
Davis.
Staff sergeants: Delwin D. Wis^
dom, Dean P. Sheldon, Gordon R.
Allbright, Willia mH. Fleming,**
James D. Bocchi, Robert P. Dunn?
Dale G. Thiessen, David G. Crorn-^
well, George M. Melvin, Clifford J.
Van Frooyen, Dewey Rand, Willis
E. McCullough, Theodore S. Calla-'d
phan, Paul L. Smith, Robert L,
MacKenzie, David J. Kempston,-«
Harold W. Beyers, William S?. j
Walker, Charles E. Hallin, Carl J."
Smith, Jack C. Odell, Cyrus Gagr
nett, Morven C. Thomas, Jimmy W,
George, Fred A. Matthais, and
Lynn F. Bucklin. -
Stanford Opens.;
Writing Contes'
The thirteenth annual competition 1
for awards in dramatic writing was j
announced by the dramatists’ alli
ance of Stanford University. Con
tests are open to all persons whatever
their training, experience or rest-*"!
dence may be. The purpose of tire ■
awards is to bring out new and striv-.
ing authors and to introduce their
work to community and professional
theaters. ^
The best plays will be recomment^- |
ed to community and college tliea- ^
ters. Outstanding articles will re-'
ceive recommendation to established
periodicals.
Awards for 1948 are these: the
Maxwell Anderson award of $HW '
for verse drama of full length or onaj
act: the Miles Anderson award of |
tragedies dealing with domestic life.
$10 for full length comedies yr
in the western hemisphere; the
Stephen Vincent Benet award of $50 ,
and presentation over station KVSM ;
for radio drama of twenty minutes!,
length, either serious or comic; the |
Henry David Gray award of $75
for clear-cut discussion of theatrical
topics in any period. Contests closl|
February 15, 1948.
For further information about rejfi- i
stration papers, fees, etc. addres<r<
Dramatists’ Alliance, Box 200Z,Stan
ford University.
Outers to End Hike J
At Hendricks Park* I
A hike to take place to Hendricks j
park Sunday will start the term ffir
the outing club. Janice Neeley
asks that girls interested in taking
the hike sign the list on the bulfe-,
tin board in Gerlinger today, so
the committee will know how much
food to purchase.
Hikers will meet in front of Ger
linger at 7 a.m. Sunday morning',
bringing 25 cents to cover the co§4
of the breakfast. Janice urged that
everyone wear warm clothes.
Among recent inventions is-a
curler that brushes hair, rolls it
into a curl and leaves the bobb'yi
pin in the curl in one operationr |