OREGON EMERALD
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Editor-in-Chief .,.K. Burns I’owell, ’12
Managing Editor.A. E. Houston, ’13
Hews Editor.Henry Eowler, ’14
City Editor.Fen Waite, '13
Assistants—
Nellie Hemenway, ’13
Harold Toung, '14
Colton Meek, ’14
Associate Editors—
Exchange—George Shantln, ’12
Sporting—Mason Roberts, ’13
Society—Elizabeth Eewls, ’13
Humorous—William Cass, ’14
Reporters—
Edward Himes, '12
Howard Zimmerman, ’13
Walter Klmmell, '13
Anna McMlcken, ’13
Elizabeth Busch, ’13
William McAllen, '14
Flora Dunham, ’14
Bess Cowden, '14
Ella Sengstake, ’14
Eeland Hendricks, ’15
Jessup Strang, ’15
Eaurence Dlnneen, ’15
Carlyle Gelsler, '15
Euton Ackerson, '15
Otto J. Heider, ’14
Dal King, ’14
Robert Farias, ’13
Business Mgr., Wendell C. Barbour, ’12
Advertising1 Mgr..Robert M. Wray
Circulation_ Clay Watson, ’16
Wednesday, April 24, 1JM2.
Form vs. Substance.
Ho say that the decision handed
down by the Supreme Court yester
day was a disappointment to the Uni
versity students, faculty, and sup
porters, is putting it mildly. The
money provided for in the bill in
question is so badly needed that any
further delay to its forthcoming, or
any obstacles thrown in the way of
getting it, strike hard at the hopes of
everyone.
We have no desire to criticize the
superior court of this state, for it
probably acted in strict accordance
with former precedents which cover
certain parts of this case. But to our
lay minds, it seems hard that the
justice of the case should go down be
fore a mere technicality. What es
sential difference does it make who
brings the complaint to the court, so
long as the justice of it is settled?
And to refuse to even consider the
content because a state official should
have brought suit and not a private
citizen, strikes us as a sacrifice of
content for form, of justice for ex
pression.
There is something wrong with our
judicial system when the emphasis is
placed on form. The English courts
do not do it. With them the import
ant thing is substance—the determ
ination of truth, equity, and justice,
—and the unessential technicalities
are oftentimes over-looked, we are
told, in behalf of the substance.
They practice discrimination in the
matters of form and in this differ
from our own courts which know no
such discrimination.
This decision makes it practically
safe for forgers to sit down and write
out initiative and referendum meas
ures and secure their being placed
upon the ballot for some technicality,
some faulty expression will surely be
found in every complaint, and the
judges will throw the case out of
court. It will then be time, not to
prepare another complaint, but to
vote on the forger’s self-prepared
measure.
As for the University, there is but
one thing left to do, make the best of
the hard luck and rally for the fight
soon to commence.
Moralist.
By the Oregonian this morning we
see that II. J. Parkinson, somewhat
familiar to everyone in Eugene, is re
joiced that "justice” has prevailed
and that he and his "gang” are vic
tors.
The decision is a blessing to the
people of the state and to the higher
educational institutions of Oregon,”
he says, “and those interested in tak
ing the University and the Agricul
tural College out of cheap log rolling
politics in the legislative assembly
and placing our schools on a higher
and more dignified basis, will now
propose a law and constitutional
amendment which will propose the
consolidation of the University and
Agricultural College at Corvallis."
Some of our readers will doubtless
remember that Parkinson was
shocked at the “logrolling,” by which
every bill passed the last legislature,
especially with that part of it which
gave the University a much needed
appropriation, and that he gathered
about him a gang of “blackleggers”
and forgers and sought to secure
justice and morality by filing a refer
endum petition, the great majority of
whose signatures were forgeries. He
may experience some difficulty after
this in convincing the voters of Ore
gon of his own integrity, should he
try to correct any more evils.
His article goes on to state that
a consolidation of the two institutions
would have meant a saving to the
state of one-third of a million dol
lars this year alone, plus the annual
cost of duplication of grounds, build
ings and salaries, but he did not state
how, nor can he. In the first place,
the total annual budgets of the two
institutions do not aggregate over
one-third of a million dollars right
now, and if either institution had
their way about it, they would use,
and to good advantage, too, three
times one-third of a million dollars.
The saving from duplication would be
small, as will be shown later.
When the University publishes fig
ures in the papers soon, showing that
in states which have combined the
two institutions, it has cost more
money per student for higher educa
tion than in states where they are
separate, Parkinson will find his ar
guments for consolidation sticking in
the craws of the voters of Oregon,
refusing to digest, and then when the
people are shown that the department
of agriculture will surely lose in
efficiency by the union, that even now
at Corvallis the elite of the school in
numbers and social prestige are not
the agriculture students, but the en
gineers, Parkinson will find that his
would-be statesmanship will be
sounded on the deaf side of the prac
tical voters of the state.
As to preventing the University
from decay, we suggest that the best
thing Parkinson can do, is to remove
his interfering hand from off it and
let it alone. It won’t decay, if let
alone.
“RED RAG” EMERALD OUT
Stay-over Newspaper Hopefuls Man
age to Start Something When
Not Watched.
The perpetrators of the Doughnut
Emerald, “that alluring Red Rag,”
caused a furore even if they didn’t
completely dim the glory of Horace
Greely and Charles A. Dana. Among
the features deluxe was the lurid
poetry of our “Busher,” it is rum
ored that Tom Word is going to take
him on as assistant extra-special of
the Monthly Poetry Department.
The chief interest of the week-end
seems to have centered in the social
affairs given for and by the stay
overs and they were certainly writ
ten up in style. Some are objecting
toa sometimes overdone personal
touch, which worked both ways oc
casionally, but the victims seem on
the whole to have taken everything
in good part.
The editor and his staff succeeded
inmaking everyone look twice, and
even those returning from their va
cations made a mad scramble to get
•copies for their memory books.
FINAL STUDENT BODY
INFORMAL FRIDAY NIGHT
The last student body dance of the
college year will take place Friday
evening, April 2(1, in the Men’s Gym
nasium.
The music will be furnished by
Burns Powell’s orchestra. Although
the dance will be strictly informal, as
usual, one formal innovation will be
a short grand march, led by the Pres
ident of the Student Body, Leon Ray.
The usual admittance fee of fifty
cents will be expected, the surplus of
which goes into the Student Body
fund.
The patronesses will be Mrs. P. I..
Campbell, Mrs. A. Ellen Pennell, Mrs.
Arthur Collier. Mrs. Richard H.
Dearborn, and Mrs. Letta Powell.
Stanley Kirkland, of Portland, was
in Eugene last week-end.
Ben Harding is doing thesis work
in the Tualatin Valley this week.
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