Oregon^Emerald
ALL-AMEtoCAN 1946-47
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
BOB FRAZIER, Editor BOB CHAPMAN, Business Manager
BILL YATES JUNE GOETZE, BOBOLEE BROPHY
Managing Editor Co-News Editors
DON FAIR FRED TAYLOR
Co-Sports Editor
walt McKinney, jeanne simmonds, maryann thielen
Associates to Editor __
HELEN SHERMAN WTNNY CART
F>AsEtLMana°”gEdE!oErf_Advrtising Manager_
“ DIANA DYE . JIM WALLACE
Assistant News Editors
National Advertising Manager .-....... .Marilyn Turner
Circulation Manager .Billijean Riethmiller
Editorial Board: Larry Lau, Johnny Kahananui, Bert Moore, Ted Goodwin, Bill Stratton,
Jack Billings.
Kostelanetz and Gould Wax
New Light Classics Albums
By'MICHAEL CALLAHAN
When a cover blurb glitters with little literary gems like
“symphonic ornamentation” and “richly rhythmical,” the odds
are that the set was waxed by either of Columbia’s two string
specialists, Kostelanetz or L>ouid. topping re
cent releases are three large albums by K. and
G., offering their best symphonic syrup—if
taken in small doses.
Morton Gould went along with current
trends by picking the best in pops classics
for his “String Time” album. Worth noting
| in this collection, too, is the welcome absence
| of the wailing string flourishes that once
polished his arrangements. After wide—and wierd—ex
perimentation, Gould has abandoned the exotic weavings that
sent his earlier “Concert” and “After Dark” albums to the
dusty back shelves. The new result is a pleasant, smoothly
stringed style that carries the melody strong and clear over
the background overtones.
Presented with the Gould treatment in “String Time”
are such hits as “Body and Soul.” “Laura,” “Holiday for
Strings,” “Sophisticated Lady,” “Solitude,” “Over the Rain
bow,” “Surrey With the Fringe on Top,” and “Stormy
Weather." We could pick no star number in this list, each
is well-glossed as any of Gould’s standards.
All that could be said for Andre Kostelanetz, the dean of
the artist arrangements, was said years before this column
came into being. For his latest album, “Kostelanetz Favor
ites," the Maestro finally had his chance to stray from the
popular field and to pick some of the best semi-classics for
his treatments. The list offered is another all-timer, and if
the cash registers make music over this, watch for further
experiments with well-known symphonic themes.
Includind in his “Favorites" are “Jalousie” (probably the
catchiest tango ever brought in from the Indies), “In a Mon
astery Garden,” "The Rosary,” “Ritual Dance of Fire,”
“Souveneir,” “Yours is My Heart Alone,” and Rubenstein’s
“Romance.”
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on 12-inch sides to give room for more lush arrangements
than we found in the smaller "String Time.” Gould waxed
a truly international set for this release, covering the musical
scene from the American cowboy to the Red Army cavalry.
Each side is a medley of folk tunes from different people, as
"Cowboy Rhapsody,” "American Salute” (the more lasting
war songs), "Go Down Moses,” "New China March,” and the
famed 'Red Cavalry March (Meadowlands).”
Disc lines : Nelson Eddy and Rise Stevens are trying again.
Their first duet album flopped miserably, largely because
the operetta "Chocolate Soldier" could not boast enough
lyrics to carry two top-rank solo artists together. Their latest
is "Gems from the Student Prince,” and we wouldn't buy
stock in this either.
There is nothing wrong with the lyrics from "Student
Prince,” the trouble in this collection is with the arrangements
and space. When two stars, a chorus, and a good orchestra
are all packed into one 10-inch side, someone is going to feel
pinched. Nelson Eddy must have felt that he was getting
• the squeeze, as a result his singing is as flat as a freshman's
first solo. In the "Drinking Song." one of the most rousing
tavern songs ever written, Eddy must have been drinking
a toast in formaldehyde.
With Victor's John Charles Thomas to point the way,
Columbia’s front office is missing a sure-bet on 12-inch al
bums, with the best from each operetta, and none of the
"fillers." Such an album with Eddy and Stevens would be a
sellout. Columbia must buy some very good cross-word
puzzles for its.program planners._
Pre-Registration Tangle
Still Doesn't Make Sense
The statement of Dean Eldon Johnson,
which appeared in yesterday’s Emerald, and
which was supposed to explain the position
of the college of liberal arts in holding up the
registration process for virtually the whole
University, still leaves a number of questions
in the minds of students who are being frus
trated in their attempts to register for spring
term.
Dean Johnson explained that the pre
registration process could probably be ac
complished in one week instead of the two
now allotted to it. That is probably true. Two
weeks does seem to be an uncommonly long
time. If this “experiment” the college is forc
ing on the University proves the dean’s
point, the student body will owe the college
a vote of thanks. Something wiH have been
accomplished.
But nobody can expect the students to be
happy about the manner in which the ex
periment is being conducted. What is hap
pening now is that nearly every student is
forced to take almost the entire two weeks to
register. Time was when the industrious
student could scurry around and go the
whole way through the process in a day—or
in two at most.
The same situation would still prevail
had the college of liberal arts been willing to
try their experiment in the first of the two
weeks set aside for pre-registration. The ex
periment would still have resulted in a speed
ing of the registration process—ostensibly
the aim in the experiment. The present sys
tem results in slowing things up generally.
Marcus Aurelius, Mortar Board
Aaree on Value of Change
Marcus Aurelius put his finger on it once
when he said, “Observe always that every
thing is the result of a change.”
Members of Mortar Board, senior wo
men’s service organization, have looked
around, spotted something that cries for a
change, and have picked a project, rhey've
decided to do something active about the
cheating at Oregon, which, instead of de
creasing, seems to be becoming more and
more flamboyant at every test. So they've
studied the logical solution, a plan of stu
dent discipline based on the Honor System,
as it has worked out successfully in other
schools. They have outlined a program,
written a speech, and organized a speaking
tour. The members, despite academic pres
sure at flie end of the term, have ambitiously
moved ahead in education toward an Honor
System.
Speaking to various living organizations,
the 13 members have met with enthusiastic
receptions, intelligent questions, and interest
ing comments. They’ve met with persons in
terested in establishing such a system on this
campus. They've met their opposition, too—
people who frankly don’t believe in the system
and have legitimate complaints to emphasize.
But they’ve also met with the indifferent ele
ment, those who are not quite enough alive
to "do.” And here is their real opponent.
Specious reasoning, vague generalities, and
pathological lassitude characterize this group.
These obstacles are neither pro or con—they
just don't care.
It will take more than a polite reception
and a pleasant meal to put the thing over or
to defeat it. It will take an honest, intelligent
interest on the part of students who are in
terested in eliminating a rather evil situation
before progress can be seen. The interest
must overcome the apathy, must blot out the
indifference, and must eliminate the lethargy
before the system can be judged on its own
merits. The Honor System must be estab
lished or eliminated on its own qualities,
rather than be stymied by a bloc of disinter
ested students too lethargic and too large
to by-pass. —J.B.S.
Confusion of State and Government
Seen as Barrier to World Peace
(Editor’s Note: The following speech, delivered
by Warren Miller, senior in political science, at
the state peace contest of the Intercollegiate
Forensic Association of Oregon, is reprinted in the
Emerald because of its special merit, and because
it hits at the heart of some dangerous thinking.)
One of the constant goals in the life his
tory of man has been and is, especially today,
the attainment of peace. The philosopher
strives for peace of mind, the attainment of
his ideal. The bricklayer asks for a more ma
terial peace, peace with his neighbor. Today
philosopher and bricklayer alike are asking
political peace, for peace among nations, that
they may live their own lives without fearing
' the intrusion of force.
A goal less frequently obvious, but at
times more persistently sought, is man's de
votion to ideals. Great as is his love of peace,
he has twice in the last generation deliber
ately abolished peace that these ideals might
live. Man's goal is peace, but peace with
out the sacrifice of his ideals.
Just as there are goals and objectives that
have remained constant throughout thel
history of man, so some of the means of
reaching these goals have remained con-"
stant. These means we know as institutions,
institutions that have time and again de
fied both revolution and man’s conscious at
temps at evolution.
We Know the Machines
They are usually known to us by the ma
chinery which represents them. Thus the in
By WARREN MILLER
stitution of religion is known to us in the
mechanical form of the church. The institu
tion of the state is known to us in the ma
chinery of government. The machinery is
formed to preserve the institution, and the
very existence of the machinery reflects the
existence of the institution. The difference
between the institution- of the state and the
machinery of government must be remem
bered when we consider the problem of per
manent world peace.
Io be justified in attaching our hopes for
the realization of world peace to the institu
tion of the world state, we must recognize
one fact. We must realize that we, you and I,
know the successful state only in the form of
a particular government. When a successful
state is mentioned, you and I think of the
L nited States of America.
Tut we think of presidents and congress
men who guide the nation, not the 145 mil
lion people who elect them; or we think of
law s, but we don t think of the 145 million
people who agree to follow the laws. In short,
w e overlook the people who constitute the *
origin of the state. And thus, in our identifi
cation of government with state, we ignore
the institution that is the state and we do ‘
all of our thinking in terms of its machinery, .
the government. \\ e forget the entity and
w e remember only the symbol. It is because
we have failed to remember the distinction * j
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