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Oregon Daily Emerald Member Pacific XntercoUegiate Press Association_ Floyd Maxwell Webster Ruble Editor Manager Official publication of the Associated Student, of the University of Oregon. Usued daily except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. ________ News Editor Kenneth Youcl Associate News Editor ....Wilford Allen Daily News Editors Margaret Scott Ruth Austin Phil Brogan Arthur Rudd Wanna McKinney Sport* Editor .-.- Edwin Hoyt Sport* Writer*—Kenneth Cooper, Harold Shirley, Edwin Eraser. Night Editors Arne Rae Earle Voorhies Marvin Blaha John Anderson ^an ^yon8 News Service Editor . John Dierdorff Exchanges . Eunice Zimmerman Statistician ... Doris Sikes News Staff—Nancy Wilson. Mate! Oilham Owen Callaway. f lorine 1 'V,-^ K,n“- John 1',por' Madeline Conan, Jessie Thompson. Florence Cartwright, Marion Lay Helen King. John 1 iper, Herbert Carson. Margaret Towers, Dons Holman, Genevieve Jewel! Rosalia Keber, Freda Goodrich, Georgians. 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Advertising rates upon application._ cc Smith, Lawrence laeribarger Mildred Lauderdale BuainesK Manager 961 PHONES Editor 666 Dally New* Bditor Thia Iaaua John Anderson Night Editor Thi» Iwue Dan Lyon* It Took 1 50 Years to Build. “On the eighth day of July, the year 1401, the Dean and chapter of Seville assembled in the court of elms and solemnly resolved: ‘Let us build a church so great, that those who come after us may think us mad to have attempted it’ * * *. The church took 150 years to build.” Thus to return to that eminent sentimentalist, Mr. Gals worthy, whose “Castles in Spain” in the Yale Review lor October has served as a background for the Emerald’s original editorial dis cussion of the R. 0. T. C. and for Dean Colin V. Dyment’s answer thereto in the issue of yesterday. And now we quote Mr. Dyrnent: “Mr. Galsworthy, however, | has the good judgement which I do not always have and which 1 perceive you yourself do not have, to postdate his castle one hundred and fifty years perhaps.” Did not the great structure in Spain take 150 years to complete, Mr. Dyrnent? Were the University of Ore gon to undertake such a thing would it not soon be time to start? All this of course has to do with dreams and, as Mr. Dyrnent says, such things are incongruities in the war department, to as great an extent doubtless as the Emerald believes the R. O. T. C. is an incongruity in university life. But there is another flank on which this military organization is open to attack. Granting even that the R. O. T. C. is a desirable thing—which The Emerald does not grant—why is it so forced into academic life? i Four morning hours a week are lifted bodily from the student’s best period for work. Add to this the three, both morning and afternoon, required for gymnasium—which The Emerald heartily favors and would seriously offer in place of drill—and one finds that seven hours, almost an average working day, is stolen from the academic province. It is too much! “One does not see how the University of Oregon can step out from the ranks and refuse to hold up the government’s hands,” tie dares Dean Dyrnent.. To The Emerald’s almost certain knowledge military drill and gymnasium are offered as alternatives at Stan ford thus removing drill as graduation prerequisite. At Colorado university we believe that drill is not compulsory and we believe also that a roll call of the universities of the country would find many like eases. This paper has no quarrel with the staff of the R. 0. T. C., those officers who are detailed here to carry out the government’s policy. It does believe however, that they are working under a handicap imposed by the falsity of their position for which they are, of course, in no way responsible. No attempt is made to cause the university administration the j least embarrassment. The Emerald is a newspaper published by the! associated students and as such believes its place to be as a mirror | to campus sentiment. A poll of the campus, it truly thinks, would find S5 per cent or more of the undergraduate body unalterably op-! posed to the K. O. T. 0. and the principle which makes possible its incongruous existence. And thus it has undertaken to express this sentiment. It realizes fully that an obligation is entailed upon the administration to retain the corps for the present but it would raise its voice in protest against any move which would mean its establish ment as a permanent fixture in our life here at Oregon. Dean Dyrnent, The Emerald does not concur with you that "de fense of country comes hard at all times,” We point out to you Ore gon’s record in the late war. It was glorious then and would be again were it to mean annihilation! Opt')i Forum WOMEN’S SELF RULE UPHELD To tin Kilitor: At lust, someone lms liiol tlio you.I judgn i at to make use of tho privilege of “fioo spooch mi,I froo press” anti givo tho opinion of tho main uiul Humorous ruts gov orn i ug women at tho University of Oregon. Tho question is throtvu up to the wo mon, “Why is it not possible for some of those all University women's 01 ganixations to got together aiul tlraw up their own set of rules?" Verily, 1 say, that it would bo oonsitlorcil "a breach of otiquot" or “uulatiylike” at Oregon, to depart from the ways of o.iri predecessors and make the suggestin' that we are thinking w mien Accord iug to the lust report from the regts i trar's office tho figures showed thn. tlu> women s grades were higher than tho men's but when it names down to a practical application of the wouicn do mg a bit of thinking for themselvis that is a different matter. They los. (heir long reverenced "»otiservatism” ami beeouie radical; if their movements become too well known thee are in former that they are guilty of great misconduct and are causing a consider ihle commotion and disturbance. Arc mt all great changes brought about bv Housing the thinking piople to act? When the law school adopted the •honor system" why did t’ ta not sa\ ‘It is for the men only," and leave wo non to be governed by the old regime? bi, they put them on the same basis » that department of the I'niveraity 1Toy gave the credit due them in re ;ard to a woman's honor and the eon rol over her actions. They gave her BULLETIN BOARD Notices will be printed in this column for two issues only. Copy must be in the office by 4 :t0 o'clock of the day on which it is to be published and must be limited to 25 words. University Vesper Service—The Uni versity Vesper service will be held Sunday afternoon, January 15 at 4:30. The address will be given by President Doney of Willamette Uni versity. Oregon Cub Men—An important meet ing of all Oregon club men, and non fraternity men will be held in the Y. M. C. A. hut 7:15 o’clock Mon day evening. Monday Book Club—Meeting at the Woman’s building January 21 for scholarship fund for girls. The pur pose is to lend money to college girls, without interest. Newman Club Weekly Social Hour— Friday afternoon, 4 to 6 o’clock at Newman hall. All members are in vited to attend and an enjoyable time is assured. Young People’s Banquet—Will be held in the Methodist church Tuesday at 6 p. m. Bishop Smith, of India, and Bishop Shephard, of Portland, will speak. Tickets at “Y” hut. Freshman Girls—Practice for freshman basketball teams Monday, Wednes day and Friday at 5:15 p. m.—Out door gym. Everybody out! the opportunity of showing her capa bility in conducting herself. Can this not be applied in every day life and not to one period only? At the University of California they have one hall for women which ac commodates one hundred women, many sororities and organized groups, be sides several hundred women who live in apartments in groups of three and four. They make the arrangements which are satisfactory to the group What is the result in the long run from the scholastic standpoint? The scholarship standard of California is higher than that of Oregon which is only one of the things which show that it is not necessary to have an omni potent power asking these girls to be in at 10:30 and informing them that they shall observe^ study rules between specified hours, wear a prescribed hik ing suit, etc. IIow childish! Are not the women of university age and ability being made to appear ridi culous? Where does self government play a part? Where does the power of individuality nssert itself? Must we continue to gullify the public into thinking that woman’s power to con duct herself must be prescribed by rules? We seek an opportunity for wo men to make their own regulations. SENIOR CO-ED. A LETTER TO DEAN DYMENT To the Editors:— This may sound impertinent, Dean Dyment. It isn’t so intended. I am ■seriously trying to find in your argu ment a basis upon which a college stu dent might stand. I am unable to do 30. Your attitude, it seems to me, is the more or less passive, opportunistic view of the world. “We have always had wars,’’ you say. “And from all indica tions we’ll continue to have wars for. many generations. We ourselves are a very generous, frank and altrustic nation, but we can’t trust our neigh bors, since they haven't our noble na ture. Therefore, hold the olive branch in the right hand and the big stick in the other.” Dean Dyment, yon know as well as I that such a state of mind has made possible most of the wars of modern times. You know as well as I that such an attitude of veiled hostility and distrust, manufactured in peace time, is but one step from actual combat; it feeds the flames of national pride, the sense of racial superiority, and racial prejudice; soon a minor dispute over some two by four coral island, or some i imprisoned drunken beach comber leads to actual conflict, and again j thousands and thousands of lives are! lost because of the clouded vision of peoples. What has this philosophy of yours ' i done to us after each war? Peoples: have cried outl “No more war. We are j tired beyond comprehension of slaugh ter and waste. It’s criminal, it’si asinine folly, it forever prevents any possible attainment of a higher and more beautiful life in this world The path of the four Horsemen is strewn with the wreckage that once was the surplus the world had laid away in the form of beautiful build ings, cathedrals, statues, and paint ings—things by which men’s souls might advance to a higher plane of usefulness and to a higher realm of justice and happiness.” And the politicians and diplomats and national leaders go to the peace conference echoing with their lips that cry: “No more war.” Then what happens? The opportun istic philosophy of national greed and distrust permeates nine-tenths of the delegates—blase, cynical, “practical” ' leaders of nations. To the reporter j they smile and say, “Everything is going finely.” In the diplomatic back alleys and ante-rooms they cook up new I alliances and create new balances of power, “to provide against any possi bilities of future aggression that might arise.” Its all wrong, Dean Dyment! The psychology is cave man psychology. The ragged-tailed dove of peace has never in this war-foolish world had a fair chance- The cards are stacked against her by the eternal reiteration of that phrase of yours to the effect that “Castles in Spain are all right—• but—not now.” That, it seems to me, is a middle-aged view of life, lacking faith, hope, and charity—and vision. Castles in Spain are all right, right now, and they would succeed if they were a militant body of men and women organized into some such group as the society for the caretaking of Castles in Spain. If we cannot get jn this University some measure of the nobility and dig nity, and innerent possibility for beauty SCHWERING i and SPICER BARBER SHOP 1 2 East Ninth Are you making a memory book of your days in college?.. See our big stunt books for interesting campus pictures. STEVENSON’S The Kodak Shop 10th and Willamette Sts. I’hone o35 Look In Our Windows And see for yourself. Our candy is just as good to eat as the boxes it is in are attractive. We have a crackerjack fountain, too. The MOUSE 921 Willamette Street Borrow Our Kitchen We want to say, you are missing something good if you haven’t tired our delicious “Cream Puffs.’’ Fresh from the Bakerite Electric ovens, well filled with pure whipped cream. Try some cream puffs tonigt and see how de lighted every one will be. If you pn for some wonderful French Pastry, choose Fruit Tarts. Marischino Rolls. Mocha Squares, Baltic S' ells. Rose Cups or Turnovers, dust to look at them makes q^e hungry. YO TI.L HURRY EOWN FOR BREAKFAST when yor ’ row some of o r Danish Breakfast Roll? or Coun try Sa a d Model Do ghnuts are ready to be served. Good ho - and Parkerho tse Rolls w;ll add a lot of pep these cold ornings, and start tli deay off right SALADS and MEAT LOAF IMPORTED CHEESE DICE-SWAN CO. Wholesale and Retail Grocers Eight and Olive 3 Phones 183 md happiness of the individual, then | :his University is not worth attending, ind a four years’ course here is not . ivorth a plugged penny. And if our I nstructors cannot utilize the immense I mass of knowledge before them, or ganize the great enthusiasm of young peoples, and impart to us, in some small measure, the tradition of the thinkers j md great teachers of all the ag# who iave labored their lives through in the j furtherance of an ideal, then those in- j structors are utter failures and they j io not belong on this campus. This is not a vocational school simply. If I wanted to learn the way to bread md butter solely I would not spend 'our years here. I am looking for j something else, and when I manage to < get into an instructor’s class who has (Continued on page three) !« Our Reputation as Shoe Repairers 35 years in Eugene is your assurance of satis faction. Miller’s Shoe Shop 43 W. 8th . Eugene Typewriters New and Second Hand Machines at Correct Prices Office Machinery & Supply Co. 917 Willamette Street Phone 148 V The Mind of the Modern Young Person Interests me as one who is attempting to give expression to Liberal or Unitarian Christianity. Will you help me out by frankly answering the following. SIX QUESTIONS How do you answer them? 1. Do you accept the explanation of evolu tion as to the universe and man? 2. Do you call yourself a Christian? If so, why? If not, why not? 3. What is your idea about God? 4. How do you estimate Jesus Christ? 5. Do you think of yourself as a sinner? If so, what are you going to do about it ? 6. 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