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©regon Datlg J-mcralii University of Oregon, Eugene _ SUL ABRAMSON, Editor EARL W. SLOCUM, Manager | Nash EDITORIAL BOARD Managing Editor Harold Mangum Philippa Sherman, Feature Editor News and Editor Phones, 665 Sports Editor BUSINESS STAFF Calvin Horn .Associate Manager Milton George _ Advertising Manager Smn KinJey „... Advertising Manager U Rom __ Foreign Advertising Manager Herbert Lewis . Ass’t Advertising Mgr. Francis McKenna . circulation nunpr Bob Dutton .... Ass't. Circulation Manager Joe Neil, Ruth Street ... .... Specialty Advertising Alice McGrath . SpAialty Advertising Roberta Wells . Office Administration Day Editor This Issue— Bob Gallcv ay Assistant—* BilJ Haggerty Night Editor This Issue-* Clarence Curtis Henry Lumpee The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during i the college year. Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription, rates, $2.50 per year. Adver- j rates upen application. Residence phone, editor, 2293-L; manager, 1820. , Business office phone, 1896. I Unsigned comment in this column is written by the editor. Full responsibility : ia assumed by the editor for all editorial opinion. EDUCATION is a painful, con tinual and difficult work, to be done by kindness, by watch ing, by warning, by precept, and praise, but above all—by ex ample.—John Ruskin. The Paternalists Again Make Matters Worse Disregarding the supposedly altruistic motives that guided the faculty, students at tho Uni versity of Chicago have openly de fied an official order prohibiting them from , attending out-of-town football contests. The attack was led by the Daily Maroon, undergraduate newspaper, which announced that “when the football team goes to Philadelphia the students will accompany them, all faculty edicts notwithstanding.” We have not yet learned what pen-, alty, if any, this editorial stand drew. At Hanover college, Hanover, Ind., success crowned a student strike pro testing against efforts to enforce a 6 o’clock curfew rule. A faculty measure ordered women students to be in their dormitories by 6 p. m. on week days and 10 p. m. on week ends. The result of the strike was closer undergraduate organization and as a consequence full student govern ment is about to be established. So the faculty paternalists have gotten into trouble again. While they may have meant well, their methods have been anything but reasonable. The Chicago jiroblem was the out growth of au attempt to provont stu dent. drinking. It has been held that as soon as they leave tho campus to attend athletic contests in other towns, tho students proceed to pass into a state of complete intoxica tion. The faculties seem to have been satisfied that their control is binding while tho students remain on the campus, and that, drunken ness is the immediate result of let up of supervision. Many plans have been advocated for meeting tho problems. Several institutions are trying the plan of having the first team play the op posing second team at home, and the second team playing tho opposing team away from home, or visa versa. The loop-hole is plainly visible. Of course the students will not ro nmin in the college town while tho first team is playing in some other town. Would it have been possible to keep Illinois students at homo while “Red” Grange was playing at Auu Arbor? Follow the oven more severe Chi cago stylo and order the students to remain on the campus whether or not there is a home contest. What is the result? Tho students rebel], and we daresay there is more drink ing now than there ever lias been previously. Anyone but the misguided patern alists could have recognized the weakness of the solution from the start. Now it. has been so clearly demonstrated that there, can bo nc questioning even on their part. If drinking is the outgrowth oi intercollegiate ^athletics, tho solu lion is most simple—abolish th( sports. No half-way measures wil be effective. Hut, is drinking the outgrowth oi navel to attend sporting events 1 'We do not believe so, although we cannot attempt to find the basic rea son. This much is evident—the problem is a case of individuals. The men wno drink while off the campus, whether at an athletic con test or elsewhere, drink on the cam pus. Imbibing in private, their ac tions are known, or at least are visible to few. Except on “state occasions” campus drinking is not a wholesale affair. But get all the drunks together at one time, and then you have a spectacle. That’s what happens when the whole campus journeys together. You have tho drinkers in one group. They are the same men who drink in privacy while in tho college town. On trips they drinl^ together. That’s all. If Chicago university officials, or those of any other school, really know what is happening around them (and they claim to) they are pits well acquainted with this condi tion as every drinking student. They know that it is a case of individuals, and that the man who doesn’t drink on the campus won’t drink while away, with very few exceptions. And they know too that they have been mighty ineffective in treating the matter at its source. They may persuade the public to believe that they can keep the boys within the law whilo they have them at college, but that evil follows as soon as they let them off the campus. We doubt that they can do this. The public usually believes that tho ac tion of tho boys off the campus is typical of what they do on the cam pus. And they are right. On and off campus capers are simply the differences between scattered and j collective drunks. mo patornausts liavo botched matters again. It is tiresome to seo them chasing in circles and shout ing their heads oil when they know they are aggravating nono too pleas ant conditions. They have started out on a great reform movement and have through misdirected efforts antagonized the students and gained nothing that is visible. It is the same in the curfew case referred to. The students have organized, and it seems highly im possible that any moro faculty ed icts will amount to anything more ! than the first. 1 Why don’t the paternalists come to life and realize that their grand mother methods are senseless and re sult in resentment only? liringiug Debate Out of '/'he Depths of Lottie jTXSTKAO of the customary dry logic—imagination, wit and phil osophy are likely to play a leading part; in tonight’s debate between the University's speakers and the (Sydney, Australia, representatives at the Methodist church. The visitors, fortunately, differ from most American debaters in that they do not enter the contest with the feeling that on their argu ments rests the solution of a vital problem. They know that if they are upheld by the judges in their ,contention that the prohibition law should be repealed, the immediate i. suit w ill not be repeal of the law. I'sing the Oxford pattern, they prefer the informal, good-natured an l temperate style of argument. The contest will probably be far above the usual dull and dry plane. T Order *(r (Continued from y>:\S‘' on*) dtc “O." Tlio annual parade of lot tormon far years back always pre eerie* tho football game. Soon aftoi the game comes tho banquet at wind old acquaintances are renewed. A1 athletic- coaches will be in attend mice and will speak. Tho banquol will bo held at tho Campa Shoppe and the committee in charge of gen oral Homecoming plans are Ed Crow’lev, .lorry Gnnther, Virgil Earl Bill Reinhart and Dean Walker. Today, the Order of tho “O” be gin their weekly paddling session for fresh men in front of the main library. According to tho new presi dent, Vic. Wetzel will be in charge this term. A number of extra feat ures have been planned for this pun ishment period. The Order of the “0” seholar ahip cup, which is awarded to tho athlete making the best grades of the term, will soon be awarded for last spring. Foreign Students' Club Banquet at “Y” Hut foreign students of all nation aidies in a group- tho Cosmopolitan ! club- will hold a ‘‘get-together’ banquet at 7:30 Monday evening at the " Y ’’ hut. Members and inter ested students are invited. At a recent meeting officers foi i he coming year wore elected. Tliev were Gilbert Brighouso, president; Pauline Wiuehell, ▼ice-president; ,Tc Tamura, secretary; and Vincent Domingo, treasurer. Alexander C Gordon, Robert Robinson and Nice 1 I’u Chai form an executive commit tee. The Cosmopolitan club does not i have a set date for meetings dur ing the year but usually meets week ly. A banquet is planned during the .year and the O. A. C. club, whieh is strong on the Aggie campns, keeps I in close touch with the local group. TfcSEVEN SEERS 'rjiw FAMOUS LAST WORDS: WELL, I'VE EATEN FIFTY DONUTS SO FAR TODAY I GUESS A ■COUPLE MORE WON’T HURT ME. %' # * Potery Theta Sigma Phi girl With your little basket Feed mo one more sinker Then order ime a casket. ...We hear from an authoritivo source that the man -with the drink ing lip was a booster for the “Beer Suits. ’ ’ • • * Oooooh. The body lice song is next: “My body lice over the ocean.” • * • Health Hints For falling eyebrows the fa mous Dr. Cutten Carver offers the following advice: Get a toe-hold on your Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, af ter which you rub your eppiglotis with emery paper (No. 6), after this call your mother and ask her in a sweet voice if you can have some bread and jelly. This is guaranteed to take your mind off whatever you want to do for the next six months. • * * Customer—If this is an all-wool suit, why does it say cotton on it? Tackful clerk—That, sir, is to de ceive the moths. KAPPA: DO YOU CARE FOR HORSES? BETA: NO, I WAIT ON MY ROOMATE. Dearest Mr. McHooliandle: If the frosh aren’t going to be paddled anymore, wbat is to hap pen to a self respecting individual who lias to listen to the boasts of wliat they’re going to do? Should I get ear muffs or leave school un til the frosli grow up? (But the average lifetime isn't more than 99 years ) Wearily yours, IVA HEDAKE. Now comes I lie confirmed poker player who, when asked to play bridge, saiil all right if they make it draw bridge. Well, I don’t know about it but it’s a case of. Yeah, what of what? A case of necessity. Gregg—“ Central, I want the Delta Delta Delta number.” Central—”1 heard you the first . t Line. ’ ’ A LUCKY t’KUAlW—HE IS IN DOVE WITH HIMSELF AND HAS NO RIVALS. A HORSE CAN BE LED TO | WATER BUT A PENCIL MUST 'BE LEAD. SEVEN SEEKS Oregana (Continued from page one) | Douglas Wilson. December 3: Kappa Kappa Gam i ms, Ruth Miller. December 4: Alpha Omlcron Pi, | Marion Barnes. December 6: Alpha Delta Pi, Edith Dodge. December 7 and 8, students out side of living organizations. FromOther Colleges This section today is devoted to freshmen, but contains suggestions for upperclassmen. Look at the fol lowing news item from the Indiana “Daily Student:” “The Betas have ordered 100 paddles from a nearby mill, in pre paration for this year’s work. The Sigma Chi’s and A. T. O.’s evidently do not believe in such strenuous education, for they have ordered only 30 paddles each. “Altogether, more than 400 pad dles have been -ordered by campus organizations, the mill officials re port.” • • • The next clipping isn’t exactly appropriate after the above, but it can go here. The Indiana “Daily Student” contributes it, also. “ ‘Ha! Hal’ Cried the freshman. ‘ I have one on my father He sent me some money To buy a new hat. Ha! Ha!”’ • • • Hero is an argument for fresh man study table: With the library becoming more and more cramped every year, says the Reed College “Quest,” a fresh man ruling requiring every frosh to give up his seat to ladies would undoubtedly relieve the situation. • • • Freshman women at Augustana College, Indiana, don’t get off so easy. They have to wear green caps too. Those at O. A. C. still wear green ribbons. FOUND—the frosh paradise. It is McGill University, Montreal, Can ada. Compulsory physical education has been abolished there for a year, because there is no gymnasium, and no building can be rented for the length of time needed by the de partment. They have, instead, a new Arts building, which, according to the president, “stands toejay one of the first University buildings on the con tinent devoted entirely to the study of liberal arts and its kindred sub jects.” • • • Out of a class of about 2,000, only 29 freshmen at the University of California have perfect teeth, says the Daily Californian. Of this number, 15 are women, and 14 are; men. • * * Reed College offers, as a parting gift, a scholarly epigram. Freshmen should remember, saysi the Quest, that cockiness is a lia bility and not an asset. Football (Continued from page one) a real fight in the Homecoming tilt. Men injured in the Washington game are recovering nicely and a veteran line-up will probably face the Palo Alto gridsters. On paper the Palo Alto team doesn’t look so impressive. In their first game of the season they de feated the Fresno Staters, 44 to 0. The California Technical school and Occidental college were next down ed, 13 to 6, and 19 to 0. Last Sat urday “Pop” Warner’s prodigies had their hands full. The admitted ly weak Olympic clubmen were de feated 7 to 3. It was only in the last minute and half of play that a Classified Ads FOUND—In Multnomah stadium, after the Oregon - Washington game, an Oregon rooter’s lid with a stickpin attached. Inquire at Emerald office. ol2-13-14-15-16 BOARD—Good eats like mother makes them! You will like them. Special rates to students. 1253 Ferry St. Phone 871-R. ol5 GOOD table board. Good rooms, $1.00 a day. 376 Eleventh avenue East. Phone 265-L ol5-16-19-20 LOST—A pair of light horn rimmed glasses, at the assembly in the Woman’s building, October 7. Call 127. Reward. ol5 CLOSED car to Portland. Room for three. Return Monday. See Mrs. Donnelly at “Y” hut. Tbe Best Abridged Dictionary—Based upon WEBSTER’S NEW INTERNATIONAL A Short Cut to Accurate Information. Here is a companion for your hours of reading and study that will prove its real value every time you consult it. 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Injuries Numerous Glenn “Pop” Warner isn’t much on bear stories but on the return from a recent trip to Los Angeles ' he declared that the present Stan ! ford team is the worst he has coach* ' ed in the past 15 years. Because of ! the poor showing against the club Imen, who were easily defeated 32 ! to 0 by California the week before, ! Warner has decided to work out a I number of new varsity players and ! [several regulars were forced to the 'bench. “Biff" Hoffman, fullbaek, I and Captain Fred Swan, guard, were |injured in Saturday’s contest. Order of “O” requests the presence of the following neo phytes of ’30 at the Library steps at 10:50 today: Bill Sievers, no lid; Fred Pow ers, no lid; Clifford Bobertson, no lid; Fat Cadwell, insubordina tion to upperclassmen; Jack Cool idge, no lid; Harold Kelley, no lid and cocky; Bob McMath, cocky and yet more cocky; Dean Condon, green lid missing; Dick Rawlinson, also no lid; Bob Bob inson, ditto; Joe Pigney, infidel ity; Alva Horsfeldt, Pat Magin nis, Henry Bristol. [sisisrsisisii Arrived, but yesterday from our Portland Shop— New Student Sweaters— Just the sweaters you’ve been ask ing for—soft wool slipons with student collars, many in stripes or plaids. Shades of tan, green, poudre, red, rose, etc. Priced from— $3.45, -$7.95 to $10.85 New Jersey Dresses— Clever one and two-piece frocks for campus and class wear in smart colors, priced from— $13.85 and $16.75 A Shipment of Sport Hose— Perhaps it’s a a soft pair of plain silk and wool hose you desire— wool-mixed striped hose—or a pair with elox! There’s variety in this assortment priced from $1.50 to $3.00. Stop in for a little visit and see these new fashions from Charles P. Berg’s in Portland! 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