Ozeaa* Daily EMERALD The Oregon Da.lv Ehe»al». publish^ Monday through Friday during the colle^year sesuas%t“iiais2A2wt sa~>«-— Opinions enprooed on .n^As'oo^ r'oi^^n^e’rsio-Initiakd oditMisis ate wtitien br a2^£sn&StfSBSiZ££*~»&-*-- _ Anita Holmes, Editor Don Thompson, Business Manager Loin a Larson, Managing Editor Barbara Williams, Advertising Manager Tom King, Ken Metzlsr, Don Smith, Associate Editors Assistant Editor: Sam Fidman News Editor: Norman Anderson Wire Editor: John Barton Sports Editor: Pete Cornacchia Chief Night Ed.tor: Mary E. Hall Assistant Manapng F'4.lt5.!Ls: Bob chen Grondahl, Ralph Thompson, Fred Vos Cireuiation Manager: Jean Lovell__ Assistant Business Manager: omrxcy National Advertising Manager: Bonnie Birkemeier Layout Manager: Martel Scroggin Portland Advertising: Karla Van Loan Zone Managers: Fran Neel, Jean Hoffman, Virginia Kellogg, Don Miller, Val Schultz, • Harriet Vahey. Rush Week Gets the Bum's Rush Rush week—that barbarian of the fraternity system—begins today. It begins on paper today, that is. Since the announcement of this mid-term rush week, houses have been contacting pros pects by telephone, entertaining like mad, and visiting the wor mitories. One dorm counselor called Thursday night, wondering if the Emerald could politely ask the rushers to stay away from the dormitories part of the time. Studying (some do it, you know) was being disrupted sadly by the nugget-seekers. It’s a kill-or-be-killed business, we know. And no man alone can correct it. But isn’t there a leader or a house or a group of houses sick enough of this cut-throat competition to do something about it... not especially for this damnable rush week, but for those in the future. Where is this thing called honor? Moss Student Body Trip Would Be Ducky Here’s a thought which, though a little tardy lor the 1950 football campaign, might develop into something lor the fu ture if the right people start agitating in the right places at the right time—which means right soon. Why doesn’t Oregon take a student body trip—a pilgrimage en masse—to one of the out-of-town games every year, the par ticular event to be selected by the Executive Council or by a student body vote. In other words, instead of the students going piecemeal to one out-of-town game one week and another the next, let them go as one great big happy family with pre-arranged details. Need you be more convinced, consider these advantages. The confusion over cutting classes would be eliminated; there would be only one “confused” weekend rather than the customary three or four. Quite possibly the administration would agree to suspend Friday afternoon and Saturday classes for the one event. Too, a train caravan could be arranged at cheaper rates—a “Webfoot Special” carrying Duck supporters to and from the event—plus the usual quotas of rallies, dances, and what-have you at the game-site. Now, considering the 1951 season—the University of Cali fornia game Nov. 17 at Berkeley is a natural. If the project were undertaken some time this year, chances are the necessary arrangements might be forthcoming before next fall.—T.K. the Second Cup... One of Oregon’s professors remarked the other morning while returning test papers, “Some of you fell on your faces miserably. But then,” he added, “some faces were meant to full on.” Borrowed from Egyptian papyrus—the oldest known writ ing on paper: “Alas, things are not what they used to be. Every body wants to write a book and children no longer obey their parents.”__________-_ the daily 'E'... to the Oregon faculty for its generous contributions to the Community Chest drive—virtually absorbing the camp us’ $4,000 quota by itself. Also to N. H. Cornish, profes sor of business administration, for his excellent work as director of the faculty drive. THE OREGON LEMON . .. to the University of Washington coaches and supporters who broadcast that the Huskies’ second string would do the job of demolishing the Oregon Webfoots Saturday last. Vo/a a' the Week Webfoots Take Over Seattle When a football team flies to Seattle, some of the players study on the hour and a half long trip. A quarterback works on accounting; a senior studies a 100 course; a sophomore con centrates deeply on a thesaurus—“it’s a good book.” Puddles sits in the front of the plane, and some wonder if his ears are popping. And someone wonders if he has ears. University of Washington rally squad members and Wash ky, the husky, meet the Webfoots and Puddles at the airport. On the. long drive back to town, one of the Washingtonians tells about the Fuddle-Duddle club, beer drinkers whose pledge pin is a bottle cap. Ducks, other than the ball-players, are in Seattle to see the game and also to a’ttend a student union meeting. Oregon’s Director Dick Williams is on the second floor of Washington’s union building—the Hub—when a U. O. band member unknowingly asks Williams, "Would you please tell me where the ‘john’ is?” Coincidence. Game time, and nobody’s ashamed of the green machine from Eugene either before or after the 60 minutes of football. Every body’s especially proud of the Oregon band, and impressed with the U. of W. card section. And hardly a listener believes the radio announcer who says 2000 Webfoots are attending the game. The coqnt is closer to 200. Rounding up a football team after the game is almost harder than playing the game. Easiest of all is the drive through Se attle’s downtown section enroute to the airport. A motorcycle escort blocks traffic while the two busses snake through busy streets. Truman had it no better. Some ballplayers sing while they wing southward. One song, almost forgotten, goes something like . . victory’s the cry of Washington.” The Word The Life of a Collegian: It's 'Oh-So-Wonderful' -From Stan Turnbull' Lots of happenings happened during this past weekend, it seems ... If Bob Funk will par don us, the people-in-the-place where-we-live went through four letter-word . . . the furnace grat ing got up and walked off, hence no fires . . . silverware took a va cation too; people eating peas with paring knives, gravy ladles, spatulas, and frozen fingers. Kappas reportedly liquidated their interest in the poultry busi ness the very morning after they incorporated . .. but where’s that second chicken? And how many people can run through the same door at the same time ? Ogegana editor Ruth Landry is really a very messy typist ... at least she decided she was when a letter she was typing came out all over gooey . . . then she discover ed a bee had taken up tempor ary lodgings back of the roller on her Royal. Funny at the time at least was cPosing-hour comment of lock-up gal at local sorority, “Okay, youth of America, time to get the heck home . . And there was the alum at Homecoming who heard the Ore gon seal had been moved to the front of the Student Union, went to look, focussed patriotic eyes (blue with red whites) on the manhole cover by the side en trance and rambled off cursing the younger generation as incur able practical jokers. With (choke) rush week be ginning this week, there should be a whole new batch of funny stories soon . . there was the fellow who went through rush weeks for four years with the only intention of getting in on some free ginger-ale drinking ... clever lad ... we hope none of the freshmen get too seriously wound ed in the hip by their pocketloads Of pledge pins. And at the Alpha Chi house Friday night, there’s the slightly early couple that almost got conked by a hot-water bottle thrown from the third floor . . . but these nights are awful cold. __M^ctrerft - > — The Campus Answers Christmas Commercialized? Emerald Editor: It is silly to complain that Christmas has become both ex pensive and empty, and still buy an armful of gifts big enough to sink the budget. And it is just as silly to rant that Christmas has become all tinsel and trees in stead of stable and stars and then balk at sending cards bearing stable and stars. In substituting materialistic cards void of Christmas scenery for messages of prayers and wish es for God’s blessings that are the spirit of Christmas, commercial izatibn of . the holy day is com plete. We were planning to buy our Christmas cards at the Co-op, taking advantage of the sale as well as of the regular display. Amid the large array of cards we found only several reminding the buyer of what Christmas really means. One of the Co-op personnel told us past sales indicate students do not buy this type of card. Have our students indicted themselves for loss or absence of the true Christmas spirit? Mrs. Julia I. Diener Well, Well, Welles Emerald Editor: Although I was pleased by Mr. Sumner Welles’ espousal of even tual world government, I am afraid that his comments on world federalist groups might have given rise to misconceptions in some students’ minds. These grbups, chief among them United World Federalists, do not want to tear down the United Nations; on the contrary, they want to strengthen it, either by amending the present charter or by writing a new, stronger, charter, giving the world orga nization the legislative, execu tive, and judicial powers of a sovereign state in those fields affecting the maintenance Of peace. It seems to me that the pres ent state of world affairs makes such a change even more urgent than it was before. I agree with Mr. Welles that the United Nations’ military ac tion in Korea is good. But I believe that it would have been better still to have prevent ed the necessity for such action altogether. Renate Kaufmann ^ 760 Mill Race Drive It Could Be Oregon “I’m warning you! Don’t call ine that again!”