Oregon W Emerald
ALL-AMERICAN 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
Managing Editor
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Co-News Editors
DON FAIR FRED TAYLOR
Co-Sports Editor___
JEANNE SIMMONDS, MARYANN THIELEN, BARBARA HEYWOOD
Associates to Editor ^
* DIANA DySeT
Assistant News Editors________
HELEN SHERMAN
PHYLLIS KOHLMEIER
Asst. Managing Editors
VIRGIL TUCKER
Advrtising Manager
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Editorial Board: Larry Lau, Johnny Kahananui, Bert Moore, Ted Goodwin, Bill Stratton,
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They Don't Hear America's Story
Anyone seriously concerned about the position of the Un
ited States in world affairs will be interested in Grace Flan
drau’s “Why Don’t We Tell Europe Our Story,” which ap
pears in the April 10 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
Miss Flandrau has just returned from France where she
fourpl wide-spread ignorance of the part America is playing
(or trying to play) in aiding European recovery. She says
the French are not aware of the ship-loads of relief supplies
America is sending. But, she relates, they are aware of the rel
atively smaller amounts of wheat and other supplies sent in
by the Soviet Union.
It’s a sad picture that Miss Flandrau paints. Sadder still
is the fact that she offers no solution, save “using our heads.”
She hints at a “news agency” to tell Western Europe about
America, but cautions against the “selling America” ap
proach. She warns us about the proud nature of the French
people, about their pride in the part the French resistance
movement played in the war. These people, she tells us, will
not be America’s step-children.
She lists a number of “misconceptions” the French enter
tain about us, and says that by our silence we seem to admit
their accusations.
But, she says, the French still feel more friendly toward the
United States than toward any other foreign country. If we
made some effort, she hints, they will be more than willing to
see the future the way we see the future.
It is a problem that cannot be ignored, and no student of
current affairs can afford to neglect it in his thinking.
Battle of the Books
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is of no help, but we think
it is Desiderius Erasmus upon whom we may safely pin the
statement that “First I buy books, then I buy clothes.” Per
haps the great Humanist was a bit one-sided, but he expressed
an attitude that was as unusual in the days of the early Tudors
as it is today.
There are few who advocate seriously that back and side
go bare, whilst the half-clad scholar buys books. But the
Emerald smiles benignly upon these students who are striv
ing to build up creditable personal libraries, often at the sac
rifice of some of the other things that make life sweet.
These students will have their day next month, when the
University library, the co-op store, and the Patrons and
Friends of the University library join to stage the annual
Undergraduate Student Library contest. Prizes (in books, of
course) will be offered for the best general and the best spec
ialized libraries.
The student who stays home occasionally on Friday after
noon so that he may add another book to his shelf will miss
a bet if he doesn’t take part in this battle of the bibliophiles.
The Man With the Pipe Retires
To eight generations of University students “M. F. Mc
Clain” and “co-op" have been svnononious. Today's student,
shopping in the well-furnished, first-floor store in Chapman
hall, may find it hard to believe that the student store has
not always been the sound institution it is today. That it is
sound and that it does cater to most students needs is a
credit to the man who sits upstairs and smokes his pipe as
he supervises the operation of this going concern.
May 1 Mr. McClain will retire. He has done a good job, and
a big job, and he has the rest coming to him.
There is good news, though, in the announcement of the
co-op board that Mr. McClain will not be clear out of the
store he built. He'll stay around for a couple of years on a
part-time basis. That is altogether as it should be. We’ll need
a little time to grow accustomed to a co-op without the man
with the pipe.
Jack Benny Has Sponsor Trouble
By JOHN MAC DONALD and KEN LOMAX
Well, it looks as if J. Benny has been
having the same trouble with his sponsors
that Fred Allen had with vice presidents. For
the past two programs, Benny has been vir
tually cut off the air to make room for L.S.
M.F.T. On Jack’s show last week, we admit,
that because of Crosby the show did run
long (Ad-libbing is the thorn of the commer
cial producer when it comes to timing), but
to leave your audience up in the air because
of a commercial is, in our minds, very poor
program production. It is to the sponsor’s ad
vantage to finish the routine and the com
mercial be hanged. This week Benny broad
cast from Palm Springs (maybe as a means
of escape) and the same thing happened, but
with minutes to spare. It’s been a long time
since we heard “There will now be a few
moments of recorded music’’ on a network
show. We have a strange feeling that Benny
is either covering up or is introducing a new
technique in program format. Listen and
see!
Radio’s prophet, Drew Pearson, announced
the results of the coming Nebraska primary—
not Dewey—not Taft, (hang on to your Lee
hats, here it comes—STASSEN! Who tells
Drew these things? Our money is on a little
bird—from Wisconsin . . . Winched gave sol
emn warning to Life mag for a 280 per cent
error on the Badger state primaries. Walter
pointed out the disaster which befell Liter
ary Digest for a similar error. We think Life
is safe—too many pictures.
What does the town gossip sound like on
the air? Sheila Graham broadcasts Sundays
at 8:45 on Mutual, but the feeling is not.
AD-LIBBING: Just because Porter is
trying to get an automobile by air doesn’t
mean that he walks to the studio, does it? . . .
If you don't have an 8 o'clock, try Fred War
ing on KGW . . .Query: Why did they cut
Walter Keirnan on the Pacific Coast? . . .
Greatest comeback with a new show and a
new audience: Amos ’n Andy—6 p. m. NBC.
Every element in the half-hour stint is per
fect, from the quartet to the announcer. The
comedy still features the malapropism, which
seems to click in Harlem accent.
The late President Roosevelt’s war dec
laration will climax a dramatic series of his
toric American speeches on “Campus Head
lines,” a program produced bi-weekly by Un
iversity radio students. Harry White, senior
in radio, wrote the script as a salute to the
speech and drama department. The show is
carried bv three stations, KOAC at 9 tonight, .
KEX, Portland (now 50,000 watts) 7 p. m.
Saturday, and KUGN, next Monday at 10:30
p. m. The Roosevelt speech is on record. Bob *
Litten and Ralph Curtis will deliver other
American addresses. Music talent supple
menting the show features Wally Bullard. .
pianist, and the Gamma Phi Beta trio of
Mary Margaret Dundore, Jo Ann Sears, and
Pat Kaiser.
Interested in Why Children
Just Love Grandma's Goobers?
By BERT MOORE
It’s too bad that the Western Amusement Co. (Heilig,
Mayflower, et al) has lowered admission prices for students,
because that action takes some of the zest out of today’s
knife-throwing practice. However, I’ll have to say that I think
these theaters aren’t playing fair when they screen the ad
vertisements of local firms in theaters supposedly devoted to
entertainment.
I doubt that the average theater patron pays his way in
just to see where he can buy a steak, some
furniture, or get his car greased. He wants
entertainment, even though he may not get
it, and he’d trade a dozen scenes of delirious
ly happy youngsters gobbling Grandma’s
Goobers for one glimpse of Esther Williams
modeling a bathing suit manufactured by
George Spelvin, American.
Furthermore, I saw some of these ads the
other night (usually use the time to take a
^ smoke) and was made even more unhappy
by their content.
In one of them some impossibly-clean cherubs were forcing
Super-Yummy Ice Cream down their tiny throats while the
narrator went on like this “Children love to go to parties
because they know they'll have some delicious ice cream
there." Somehow I’m not convinced of this.
As I recall the birthday parties of my youth, the 27th and
Skidmore gang anticipated nothing but getting a chance to
badger the girls and wreck the host’s house. Come to think
of it, things haven’t changed much since then.
Besides these ads devoted to the wares and services of
local firms, an additional piece of propaganda has recently
been foisted on some theater audiences. It concerns Eugene’s
new admissions tax, and it’s designed to make the citizenry
displeased with its city council.
The ad, which is written in comic strip English and pun
ctuated in the same exclamatory manner, has a lamentable
sound track not long enough to run continuously while the
epistle jerks along. As a consequence, the music starts and
stops, with flourishes, about three times during the ad, and so
becomes one of the funniest things shown in Eugene recently.
Instead of rushing from the theater to buy pikes suitable
for carrying heads and then descending on the city council
with many an irate cry of "Turn the rascals out!”, the aud
ience laughed mightily.
I wish the theater managers would take that hilarity as a
cue and let the radio stations and the Regretable-Guard handle
local advertising.
Side Patter
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I was robbed! Who kidnapped
my column? When last seen last
week's column had been digested
by the Chief, the ad staff, and
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and theft insurance for wayfard
columns.
The pin and engagement de
partment looks like the classified
ad section of the Oregonian. The
DGs got a head start at the end
of last term, but the race is on
now between the Thetas and the
Alfa Fies for the largest number
of unavailable girls.
At the Pink Palace Theta Ber
nice Lind is now wearing a spark
ler from Peter Walsh of Stanford,
Toni Johns has a ring from Kap
pa Sig Johnny Brooks, Bee Vin
cent and Sigma Nu Ed Dick are
engaged, and from Portland Pat
ty Duncan’s name has beeii added
to the list now that she and Phi
Delt Chuck Fagen havetset the
date.
Former Sweetheart pf Sigma
Chi, Sally Mueller, announced her
engagement to OSC Beta Bob
Kent at the Pi Phi house recently,
and over the vacation Betty Don
aldson became engaged to OSC
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