Member Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association. SIGMA DELTA CHI EDITION Official publication of tbe Associated Stndents of the University of Oregon, issued daily except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. Entered in tbe postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Sub scription rates $2.25 per year. By term, 75 cents. Advertising rates upon appli cation. PHONES Editor 055 Business Manager 951 EDITORS THIS ISSUE John Anderson Edwin Fraser Fred Michelson FEDERAL AID IN EDUCATION There is a good deal for peoplo to mull over in their minds in the recent state ment of the governor of Missouri that the farm boy of the country as a whole gets his education in a school which aver ages 121.0 days a year, by comparison with the facilities offered the city boy, which are the equivalent on the average of 171.5 days a year. Tho comparison might be extended further if data were available. The typical school in the coun try districts of the United States—al though this is not true in particular of Oregon—is a one-room, one-teacher school, with scanty equipment, no labor atory and usually no library. The city school on the other hand has both labor atories and libraries, or convenient ac cess to them. An even more striking con trast, however, is disclosod by tho state ment that tho city school invaribly has all of the eight grades and leads to four years of high school in addition. The rural school-—again taking the country as a whole—has the alternating grads system of trashing and stops at or before the eighth grade. That this does not apply to the states which are the most advanced in education is the more important to us bocauso it may have dulled the keen edge of our Sense of duty as citizens of the nation at large. But it cannot be gainsaid that in this respect, the interests of all tho people of all the states are mutual. It is impossible to foster ignorance, or to permit it, in one community without im periling every other. Tho illiterate, who are apt to be the incompetent vocational ly spending, of one state are destined by their votes ns future citizens to infuoneo the destinies of their fellows in evry other state. Florida and Oregon, Maine and Arizona, are one in the common stake they hold in the preparation for citizenship, and for right liviing, of all tho people of the nation. We have emphasised the contrast bo tween urban and rural schools, and have mentioned that the average opportunity for education is much manlier in other states than it ih in Oregon, because we be lieve that this matter of opportunity for education runs to the fundamentals of equality in American life. A distinctive foautrc of the development of the Amer ican people has been the passion for edu cation by which above all other peoples they have been distinguished. This has been iluust rated bv the persistence of the movement away from the country and toward the city, which has been actuated so largely by the desire of people to ob tain education for their children, and by the fact that the statist having the repu tation for maintaining the best schools have been favored above others in immi gration, for this reason chiefly. Both for the purpose of curbing the cityward move meat before it has attained uneconomic proportions and of obtaining justice for imw who ongnt not to no compelled to emigrate in order to go to school, it is essential that the opportunities for edu cation shall be equalised. Tt goes with out saving that equalization should be ac eomplirhed by the process of building up. that the present lowest should be brought to the standard of the highest, that there shall be no tearing down, no recession at any point along tho line. The problem hen is ouo of teaching people to think in national terms, to roe ogni.e tho obvious tact that duty in edn cation is not circumscribed |>v state lines, and ospeeially of impressing upon the in habitants of the more fortunate common wealths tho peril they risk in maintain ing an attitude of self complacency For the badly equipped and ill adjusted citizen of a generation hence is going to bo a source of danger to the nation wheth er he hails, from Maine or Georgia, and the citizen of the most distant school district is not going to be able to escape the consequences of a narrow minded and parochial policy. lilt* Hunwvr tu mr ar^uuirui uu1 opponents of federal aid (which is not to 1m' confounded with federal supervision) in education, that education is in every detail the duty of the individual state, is that not all of the states have per formed that duty. We weary of waiting for equalization by the slow process of time, particularly when we belive it both unnecessary and perilous to wait too long. We would hasten the time when the right to all education that a boy or girl can profitably utilize will be regarded as fundamental, without regard to the ac cident of geographical situation or the economics of locality. The most expe dient, because it is the most feasible, rem edy is federal aid. A REAL ACCOMPLISHMENT Among the results of the election that is now nearly a week old must be listed the fact that the tax reduction issue, which was so prominent in the begin ning of the campaign, was lost in the un derbrush before the end was reached. About all that is left behind to remind us of it is the initiative measure whose purpose is to repeal the millage taxes by which the University and the Agri cultural College are supported. It is not particularly difficult to un derstand why this measure should have survived the tidal wave that overwhelmed the remainder of the much discussed econ omy program. It is not far from the truth to say that in Oregon there are men who would be willing to Bee their taxes increased if thereby they could be assured that the state’s institutions of higher learning would be crippled. Having been fighting the schools for years, they were not going to lose this opportunity to get in ji blow—and they did not. Higher education has had a hard struggle in Oregon. For years it was the football of politics and was an issue in every legislature. Hut it has gained steadily in spite of opposition, and it is a fact of the utmost importance that it has gained because it has been able to command consistently the support of the people of the state. The schools have won, practically without exception, when their case has been carried to the elec torate. No doubt they will win again if the millage bill repeal goes on the ballot next fall. They will win certainly if in their recent years of comparatively easy cir cumstances they havo remained as close to the public as they were before these easier years. Each year at taxpaying time there is a great deal of wild talk about the iniquity of high taxes and about tho need for reduction, but the people consistently vote to retain and pay for that which they want. They will vote to support the schools if their faith in them remains strong. Tt is a pity that from time to time the University of Oregon and the Oregon Agricultural College must go forth and do battle for their lives. In a common wealth whose future depends so largely upon adequate education of its citizens, it is to be regretted that the schools are the first and favorite target in every campaign for retrenchment. But every cloud has its silver lining and this cloud is no exception to the rule. Knowing that their existence depends upon their con tinued usefulness, Oregon’s state schools are spurred constantly on to meet the real needs of those whose tax contribu tions support them. Thus they arc kept people’s schools, specializing upon that which is useful and uplifting and free from many of the frills whose value is open to question. That is something that is truly worth while. THERE IS TIME FOR ALL THINGS It is only a matter of days until the University closes its doors for the sum mer, when the various students enrolled will scatter themselves throughout the state, to take up positions in various walks of life during the vacation period. These months are usually busy ones for the student. In the three months time allotted, he or she is usually making a desperate attempt to eart> necessary funds to return to the University in the fall, at the same time indulging in a few weeks of recreation. In most cases there is lit tle thought given to matters pertaining to the University. In this edition of The Emerald, the neophytes of Sigma Delta Chi, wish to bring to the minds of the departing stu dents that Oregon is their University and it should merit a portion of their time. In these days of unrest when the people are working to throw off the yoke of tax ation. there has sprung up organized op position to the millage bill. This move ment if allowed to go to completion will strike at the very heart of the Univer sity. Too long has Oregon been thwarted in her up hill climb by lack of finances. We cannot allow a reversion to former conditions just at a time when the Uni versity has begun to come into its own. If every Oregon student will take it upon himself or herself to be a personal representative of the institution both in actions and in deeds, the chance for a bigger and better Oregon will be immeas urable increased. STANFORD HOLDS LABOR DAY Stanford's third annual Labor Day was hold May 17 at tho Children‘a Convalescent Homo. All classes in tho university wore postponed in order that •he undergraduates niijrht help beautify the grounds about the home. I'se tho Classified Ad for your wante. BULLETIN BOARD ! Notices will be printed in this eotama for two issues only. Copy moot be in the office by 4:80 o'clock of the day on which it is to be published and mart be limited to tt words. Coos County Students—Meeting at 7 p. m. Thursday, 764 Mill Bace drive, across mill race from Kappa Sigma house. Everybody turn out. California Club—There will be an im portant meeting of the California club tonight in room 105 of the Commerce building at 7:30. There will be an election of officers for next year. Annual Seabeck meeting of the Y. W. C. A., 5 p. m. Thursday, at the bun galow. Various phases of the con ference will be explained and illus trated. All members asked to attend. Track Men—All men who have partici pated in any of the Varsity track meets this year are to meet at Hay ward field at 4 today for a picture. Hawthorne Club—Meeting at 7:15 to night in men’s room of Woman’s building. Very important. Election of officers. Women’s Athletic Association—Meet ing at 4 o’clock today in the Wom en’s League room. Nominations for next year’s officers. Ye Tabard Inn—Meeting tonight at the home of W. F. G. Thacher, 1626 Hilyard street, at 7:30 o’clock. Girls’ Glee Club—All members be on steps of McClure hall Thursday night at 7:15. Seniors—Saturday, May 27, is last day to order caps and gowns at the Co op. Hammer and Coffin—Meets tonight at 7:30 sharp at the Anchorage. Dial—Meets tonight at 7:30 in the Woman’s building. Oregon Knights—Regular meeting to night at 7:30. Sigma Delta Chi Initiates Take in Crowd at Library Clothes in the latest Brooks Model dress suits, shoes to match, and two quart hats two sizes too small, set dan gerously over one ear duo to shrinking of the goods or inflation of the cranial cavity, John Anderson, Edwin Fraser and Fred Michelson, neophytes of Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journalism fraternity, mounted the library steps at 11 o’clock yesterday to open the outlet to their journalistic steam on topics which they deemed were crying for attention. In the usual manner a most cordial welcome was extended to the speakers of the day by a receptive audience, who strained listening ears to catch every word that came from the speakors ’ supply of authentic knowledge. Loud cheers and praise went up, reverberating again and again across the boundless amphitheater in which tho speakers were situated, each time the delicious subtlety of the rap idly coming jokes were apprehended. Long after the last speaker had made his closing statement and had taken his leave from the pedestal, a rumble of laughter wns still audible in the crowd. As the speakers strolled leis urely' back to their office where they were at the time editing the college paper, Mr. Anderson was impressed with tho keen sense of humor with which Oregon students were possessed. Wrinkling his brow in an expression of mirth, he said: “Those students either got that later or it lasted longer1 than any joke I ever got away with before.” The speakers were well impressed with the spirit of the Oregon students and wish to have it circulated that they will be pleased to respond to the cor dial invitation extended to be the guests of the University at some future date. University High To Present Play Oscar Wilde’s production, “Import ance of Being Earnest,” will be pre sented by the senior class of the Uni versity high school in the auditorium *of the high school at $ o’clock this evening. The play portrays absurd circum stances which arise when the affairs of dashing young men and charming young ladies are interfered with by a meddlesome and aristocratic aunt. I'ompous butlers arrayed in all the re galia of their royal station add to the absurdity of the situation. Tangles are frequent and humor profuse. The players consist of a well trained caste of seniors, who have devoted much time in rehearsing for the pro duction. Harold Gordinier, Thomas Going, Lloyd Young, Wilbur Hayden, Helena Stewart, Gertrude Hill, Mar garet Dovery, and Helen Reynolds will play important roles in the production. LARGE GIFT GIVEN MICHIGAN A gift estimated at from $5,000,000 to $15,000,000 has recently been re ceived by the School of Law at the University of Michigan. The name of the donor, an alumnus, is unknown. COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF One of the greatest services a univer may give to the student is to point out his weakness and his strength, in order that he may correct his shortcomings and train himself for the work for which he is best suited.—Daily Ulini. Most of the B. O. T. C. boys are all for this war department economy pro gram. They are willing to go a step farther and go without uniforms as well as shoes.—University of Washington Daily. Don’t get the “if" habit .... Kip ling ’s poem entitled “If” is full of thought and spirit. Bead it, think it, and live it, and “if" will be relegated j to the heap of obsoletes.—Arizona Wild cat. We got a good laugh out of watching our leading social fusser dressing for a “hard time" dance, striving to look “rough" and “slick" at the same time. —Ohio State Lantern. Students who fainted while standing at attention during the brigade review show that they have omitted to master the fundamentals of their drill.—Daily Illini. Many girls succeed in keeping that schoolgirl complexion by keeping it in a box.—Columbia Spectator. The Woman’s League board of the University of Colorado has made loans to seven girls this year to the amount of $850. While the working capital of the fund is small, it has proven ade quate, for no request has been refused. The prehistoric skull of some con temporary of Adam has been dug out of the bank of San Francisquito creek at Stanford university. It has lain 18 feet below the level of the ground for a period of from 2,000 to 10,000 years. Phil Neer and Jimmy Davies, Stan ford’s double tennis team, won the Pacific Coast conference championship, defeating the California team of Bates and Conrad. According to a decision of the board of trustees of Pacific university, ex service men will be granted free tuition next year as they have in the past. This is the fifth year that the award has been made. • • • Five students at Ulinois Wesleyan university were permanently dismissed ship in Theta Nu Epsilon. Some time by the board of trustees for member ago the men were expelled from their respective fraternities because of their affiliation with T. N. E. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE EMERALD MAN THE PERISCOPE Sometimes, when topics of mutual in terest are hard to discover, a man and a woman will discuss “flappers.” Nine times out of ten the man will find that he had trod in dangerous waters once he voices his opinions on flappers and flapperism. It seems that almost every one has his own idea of what a flapper is. It’s just as hard to discover a girl who will admit she is a flapper as to dis cover a man who will admit himself to be a “ parlor python, ” “ lounge-lizard, ’ ’ or any other of the species described by those undictionary names. And yet one young man had the consumate nerve to tell a girl that he belives ninety-five per cent of the girls at Oregon were ‘ ‘ flappers. ’ ’ His only apology was that he grouped the particular girl to whom he addressed the remark in the class which comprised the remaining five per cent. He did this when he saw that that was the only answer that would ap pease his friend. Mentally he probably made reservations. The term “flapper” has lately been much abused. Originating in England, the word still means in that country “an honest, critical, active school girl, who never flatters a man and is practically at war with the other sex. She is a sportswoman who goes in for the game and not for the clothes.” Tlio common use of the word in Amer ica might be said to be the reverse of this English definition. Flapper really means a wild duck too young to fly, as most, sportsmen konw. Applying this to the human race, flapper means a de lightfully innocent, young girl. Had the young man explained himself as holding these views of a flapper, he might not have apologized by telling the girl that she belonged to the five per cent not flappers, or in other words that she was the reverse of “a delight fully innocent young girl,” which might be taken to be “an uninteresting sophis ticated old lady.” Speaking of “lounge lizard,” “parlor python,” “tea-hound,” “snake,” et F ailing-Beekman Awards Attract Only 2 Seniors Elaine Cooper and Wilbur Hoyt are the only entries to date for competi tion in the Failing-Beekman oratorical contest to be held on the evening of June 15 in Villard hall. The Failing-Beekman contest is an annual event, open to all seniors of the University, carrying with it a prize of $150 for first place and $100 for second place. Very little interest has been manifested in the contest this year, according to C. D. Thorpe, debate and oratory coach. But he is hopeful that other names will be added to the list of contestants. The orations are to be original with the student giving them and are to be limited in length to 15 minutes. The Failing-Beekman prizes are taken from two separate funds left by Henry Failing and C. C. Beekmau of Jacksonville, both of whom were very much interested in oratory. The prizes is now awarded come from these two funds; first prize from the Failing and second prize from the Beckman gifts. In last year's contest Aba Rosenberg took first prize and John Uauoles won second. ° MISTAKE CO EDS FOR MOTHERS Sixty co-eds of the department of home economics at Oregon Agricultural . ollege, were mistaken for a convention of war mothers while on a recent field trip to Portland. cetera, who can offer a bona fide defi nition for such terms? No one has of fered a prize for the most acceptable definition, but it might be interesting to find the different views held among men and women on this campus. They will probably be found to differ as widely as views held as to just what is a flapper. Some awkward-limbed athlete who never sets foot inside a woman’s house except on the occasion of his house dance when he must enter in order to bring forth his partner of the evening will tell you that ninety-five per cent of the members of the male sex attending this University are “lounge-lizards.” A sophisticated gentleman who has a wide acquaintance among members of the fair sex and usually manages to spend two or three evenings a term at each of the various women’s houses on the cam pus will tell you that only about five per cent of the men attending Oregon are “parlor-pythons.” He will usually add that the particular man who is affording him the keenest competition in the matter of getting ‘1 dates, ’ ’ heads the list of the five per cent. The generally accepted meanings of both ‘ ‘ flapper ’ ’ and ‘ ‘ lounge-lizard ’ ’ are that members of the human race who might be classed under either of those groupings, depending upon the sex, con sist of students who apparently have no interest in academic life other than as affording a place to meet members of the opposite sex and amusements with which to entertain them. A class in journalism not long ago was asked to write a paper on flappers. They almost unanimously agreed that ac cording to the commonly accepted news paper definition of ‘ ‘ flapper, ’ ’ the num ber that might be classed as such at Ore gon was minutely small. Although they were not asked to write upon the sub ject it is probable that they would have declared the number of “parlor-pvthons” here to be just as small. Is everyone agreed VIDA SHERWOOD (Continued from page one) son and’ Fred Main, both of the Phi Delta Theta house, and Thomas Short and Ted Gillenwaters, of the Alpha Tau Omega house. 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