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ODtegun Bailg 5mctali» University of Oregon, Eugene SOL ABRAMSON, Editor EARL W. SLOCUM, Manager editorial board Sv Nuh __ Managing Editor Harold Mangum -— Sport* Editor Phillips Sherman, Feature Editor New* and Editor Phones, 655 VAY EDITORS: Claudia Fletcher. Beatrice Harden, Bob Galloway, Genevieve Morgan, Minnie Fisher. Alternates: Flossie Radabaugh, Grace Fisher. MIGHT EDITORS: Bob Hall, Clarence Curtis, Wayne Morgan. Jack Coolidge. •PORTS STAFF: Jack O’Meara, Dick Syring, Art Schoeni, Charles Burton, Harry Van Dine. JPRATURE WRITERS: Donald Johnston, Joe Sweyd, Ruth Corey, A1 Clarke, Sam Kinley, John Butler. * UPPER NEWS STAFF: Jane Dudley, Alice Kraeft, Edith Dodge. iWS STAFF: Helen Shank,»Grace Taylor, William Schulze, Herbert Lundy, Marian sten, Dorothy Baker, Kenneth Roduner, Cleta McKennon, Betty Schultze, Elaine Crawford, Frances Cherry, Margardt Long, Mary McLean, Barbara Blythe, Bess Duke, Ruth Newman, Miriam Shepard, Lucile Carrol], Betty Schmeer, Maudie Loomis, Ruth Newton, Dan Cheney, Eva Nealon, Margaret Hensley, Bill Hag gerty, A1 Canfield, Margaret Clark. _ BUSINESS STAFF Milton George . Associate Manager ft— Kinky . Advertising Manager Herbert Lewis . Advertising Manager F Edwin Ross .. Foreign Advertising Mgr. Joe Neil . Assistant Advertising Manager Francis McKenna _ Circulation Manager "Bob Dutton .... Ass’t. Circulation Manager Ruth Corey Specialty Advertising Alice McGrath .. Specialty Advertising Roberta Wells . Office Administration Advertising Assistants: Rffth Street, John Allen, Flossie Radabaugh, Roderick L* JPeDatte. Maurine Lombard. Charles Reed, Larry Thielen, Carol Eberhart. Office Administration: Dorothy Davis, Irene JBowlsby, Ed Sullivan, William Miller, Lou Anne Chase, Ruth Field. Day Editor Thin Inane—Bee Harden Night Edit^ This Issue—Eugene Laird The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during college year. Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice At Cairene Oregon, ns second-class matter. Subscription rates, $2.60 per year. Adver tising rates upon application. Residence phone, editor, 2293-L; manager, 1320. Business office phone, 1896. *_ Unsigned comment in this column is written by the editor. Full responsibility Riaiimed by the editor for all editorial opinion. PERSONAL experience is the basis of all real literature.— GeoTge Henry Lewes. Student Concerts For Students A CORRESPONDENT today raises the very pertinent ques tion concerning student seating at concerts sponsored by the Associat ed Students. He refers specifically to the short age of seats at Tuesday’s concert ■when it became necessary to turn away many students who, by virtue of membership in the A. S. U. O., were entitled to hear the symphonic choir. This condition resulted in part from the sale of tickets to townspeople. The surprisingly large number of , students who tried to crowd into the Methodist church building could -not have been cared for, however, even if no tickets had been sold to outsiders. The graduate manager adopted the policy this year of giv ing no outside advertising to stu dent-sponsored concerts and limiting the off-campus sale sufficiently to permit soating of all students who desire to attend. Even so, all calculations were shattered by the unprecedented stu dent interest as evidenced by the crowd that sought entrance to the hall Tuesday. The problem is that of securing a larger hall, but since the Meth odist church is tne only suitable place for the presentation of con certs, it becomes almost unavoidably necessary, regrettable as such action would be, to discontinue the ticket sale to townspeople. The arrangement whereby those persons outside the University have been permitted to enjoy the student lecture and concert series has been commendable, and it is unfortunate that a change in this system need be considered. Perhaps some day the citizens of Eugene will build the contemplated auditorium. Then there will be room for all who care to attend the con certs. Until that time, however, the managers in charge of the series would do well to discharge first their responsibility to the preferred customers. You Wanted It; Now Give It Support THIS is good weather for ducks, j and it won’t be long now before i “Webfoot” waddles forth from its puddle and quacks across the cam pus. Let it be known to those who heretofore were ignorant of its ex istence that'“Webfoot” is the cam pus magazine, the only one that is owned, managed and contributed to by the student body. Its initial appearance at Home coming brought about criticism, both favorable and unfavorable. This is the fate of all debutantes, and the editors and staff have made every effort to put their fingers on the criticism, the unfavorable, espe cially. By that the magazine grows. Improvements and amendments can be brought about. Someone said there should be more humor, and so two more pages of witticisms will blossom forth in the next issue. An other, an “intelligencer,” expressed a wish for more art, therefore poetry that will appeal to football fans and literati alike, will occupy a specified place in the make-up. So it is a period of evolution that the duck is experiencing now. Tho staff is eager to give the campus what they want, and some changes will be made in each issue until the subscribers are satisfied. Those who clamor for a fifty-page publication should consider that in years to come “Webby” may be a large and influential mallard. Now it is but a duckling, no less eager to grow, but much in need of the financial support, through subscriptions, of the student body that asked for it. —N. S. For Writers of Communications Sl’ACE limitations make it neces sary for the Emerald to re strict all communications to ap proximately three hundred words. In cases where this rule is not ob served the editor reserves tho right to condense letters to the required brevity. Your communication is more like ly to be read if you make your point in few words. It is more like ly to appear in print when it re spects theso rules. To repeat the old familiar phrase, communications are wanted, whether in disagreement or agreement with tho Emerald’s editorial stands. Just say something—and respect the libel laws. Commun ications On Student Concerts Vo tho Editor: Since you aro usually the oue to hear all tho how's of correspondents and pass out the soothing syrup or ■whatever it is you give the chronic bewailers. I should like to take this opportunity to inquire why it is that the A. S. U. O. concert that was given Tuesday evening was not put on in a larger hall. I went down to the Methodist church in good time before the affair was scheduled to start and could not get in. They were turning away people by the dozens. It may be that there is no larger hall than that of the church, but if •nch be the case why not save a few more for the students and not sell 00 many to outsiders! { should have liked to hear the Russian singers hut the hall was filled and students were “out of luck.” Since these concerts are in tended primarily for the Oregon men and women, let them have first choice and the townspeople second. ART 8CHOENI Why They Don’t Write To the Editor: Queer, isn’t it! University stu <dents of any nationality never were noted for being an unresisting or passive group. More likely they are known to most people for their hypercritical and cynical disposi tions, and yet we* claim for Oregon another title—another feathor for our cap. Here are over three thou sand students, all, according to the Emerald, a most passive group. Marvelous! Quick, some stalwart penman, send tho story to the American magazine. No—we fear, despite the evidence produced, that webfooters aren’t any more submissive than a bunch of South African canibals or as the Olascow University students who have a general melee and tist fight proceeding the election of their stu dent body officials. Then why is it that the editors of the Emerald, through their edit orials, are not able to stir this force ful body to pen action? Certainly not because the Emerald is not in fluential among the students, for that fact is established. Certainly not because the editorials are not interesting, at least to the majority, for we wish to greatly commend the editors on their choice of subject matter and their interesting style. We believe anyone reading the col umns regularly will back us up in that statement. Admitting that there are certain issues put forth in the Emerald that are contrary to the majority of stu dent opinion, we will try to sug gest a few plausible reasons for the disinterest shown by the auditors. first we believe that the average student has not yet been impe grated with one of the dominate purposes of our schools—to train one to think clearly. Do the editors not agree that too many students grad uate from our modern colleges and universities without the power to think for themselves T When an editorial appears putting to shame college vandalism or to some other idea, it, if put forth in a touching way, changes the ideas of many of the former believers in the practice by bringing new facts to light. And so it is with a great many of us. We are too easily swayed by a power ful minority. The press is a power ful minority. And so on the first point, we be lieve that the editors should con gratulate themselves for having ac quired the ability to sway their auditors. But there are other theories, con cerning the eternal hush which blankets the writing of student opinion. In this age there is some thing to do every hour of the day. In fact most of us wish the day contained more hours. The majority probably consider their time too valuable to bo fighting over editorial comment. Besides tinfc, a great many students have not the ability to put into writing, their thoughts. Then too the evil of the inferior ity complex enters into our actions. At the supreme moment when we read an editorial which contains ideas contrary to our own, this com plex secretly tells us that the edit or is the smarter anyway and will win out in the end, and that your time spent in expressing your views is but wasted since the editors will most likely make your ideas • foolish in the end. And so we webfooters seem to be satisfied with making our explosions of opinion orally, thus leaving the editers without opposition or com petition in their art, that of push ing the pen. It has all come about ^ merely because the rest of us are too busied with things we have to do, because not all of us have yet learned to think for ourselves, and last because we have the character istics of all true Yankees—we can’t stand to be made fools of. It is indeed a sad condition where rem edy would be welcome. Perhaps a course in editorial refute entertain ed by the universities and required of all students would help. Yes Oregon students are passive. If you don’t think so witness any of the frosh-soph mixes that are to occur in future years or inquire 1 about any of the ones that have j passed. Their meek temperament is ! also displayed at all Oregon-O. A. C. contests. JAMES B. SHAKP -- From Other Colleges What Is Youth Thinking? (Reed College Quest) I Our issue of last week carried an announcement of five hundred dol | lars in prizes to be given away by | “ The World Tomorrow” for the eight most significant essays (on “What Youth Is Thinking.” Here, it seems to us, is a subject bristling with possibilities yet dif ficult, to organize or present in a dear-cut statement of fact. In the i first place, it would-Jiave been wis , or to have qualified the title by , calling it, “What Thinking Youth Is Thinking.” While all youth must of necessity have thoughts of some sort, the great majority is unfortunately too busy petting or • gyrating to the raucous and bar baric strains of such drivel as “Red-Hot Mamma, Kiss Your Pa pa,” to have any time for intelli gent thought. Fortunately for the future of the world, youthful think ers do appear from time to time oven in institutions where in creased quantity-production of mor ons seems to be the goal (doubtless ; they are by-products) and it is these j thinkers who are the concern of the ‘ ‘ World Tomorrow. ’ ’ j Youth today should find more cause for thought than has existed in any other period of history. Iu the last hundred years, our fathers have completely revolutionized the world mechanically. Society re mained more or less stationary for the first seventeen centuries of the Christian era and then iu one brief century the Industrial Revolution so transformed it that today it has me chanically no more in common with the early eighteenth century than it has with Mars. But these things are physical on ly and spiritually we are not far removed from medieval times. Wit ness that we are only eight years away from the most terrible car nage in history—a carnage in which implements of destruction and sud den death, bestowed by our scienti fically-enlightened age, made the archery of the Battle of Hastiugs or the Wars of the Roses seem 1 child’s play. Science would seem to be like fire; valuable as a ser vant but a destroyer when it gets beyond its master’s control. Witness our attitude towards the Grille Dance Campa Shoppe Friday & Saturday ; TkSEVEN L SEERS “—AND. A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM—TO THE; LISTERINE COUNTER.” . DISCOVERED This dainty article of wearing ap- - parel was found in the Libe. It is i green in color and has all modern conveniences, also a comb attached, j Loser can find by calling Vera 1 Daulton. A traffic officer will be; in charge. * * # * * * * * * “These are my finals,” said *\ * Eef as he surveyed a pile of * * chicken bones. (From all re * ports the Sigma Hus can’t af- * *, ford turkey.) * ******** WE. JUST BET THAT THERE ARE MANY MEN IN PORTLAND THAT WISH THEIR MOTHER IN-LAWS WOULD ADVERTISE TO RENT ROOMS. | “No foolin’, we’ll have to get a ; new house now,” said Betty Beans when the Dijii (plural for Delta Gammas) were practicing their new dance step, that makes the Charles ton, St. Louis, Finale, Flea and all other hops, look like a Prom at the Home for the Infirmed. When I was a child I didn’t grow until I was about fifteen But now that I am older I Don’t seem to grow much either. Do II • * * * FAMOUS OLD PAINTINGS This rare old lithograph is one of the most well-known works of art in existence. It is owned by a connoisure of bathing beauties who is also a Sigma Nu. It is called, “Tille of the Tub,” and repre sents a popular Kappa sponging. “WELL, I’LL BE SWITCHED” —MUST HAVE BEEN THE CUS TOM WHEN DADDY WENT TO COLLEGE BUT NOW IT’S— “WELL, I’LL BE PADDLED.” theologically unorthodox. Despite the revelations of science, the unal tered beliefs of tenth century monks still hold sway among the masses; and while the rack has passed away, heresy is still about the greatest stigma that society can put upon a man. Witness, too, the manner in which we distribute the earth’s store of goods. Bountiful Nature has pro vided amply for all, yet due to our method of distribution, satiated and bored individuals languish in marble halls or private yachts while others search for crusts in the gutters of dirty slums. But we have said enough; al ready we have risked incurring the enmity of the public press, which at the outset was furthest from our in tention. We merely sought to show the magnitude of youth’s problem when it starts thinking of tomor row. The world moves ever forward. Of late, mechanical progress has rather outstripped man’s progress along other lines and until he catches up, he cannot be expected always to use his new playthings wisely. In a few years, youth, will “inherit the earth” to do with it as it sees fit. It has been said that “with maturity revolutionary youth re-establishes every convention.” If this is going to mean the bringing on of another World war, then great is the shame of youth. If it is going to mean renewed energy in combat ting disease, ignorance and degrada tion, in razing slums, in giving op portunity to all, then there is hope for the world. The problems before us are many and complex. How can anyone tell "What Youth Is Thinking?” i — Grille Dance Campa Shoppe Friday & Saturday It is toward the end of the term —you paid your fees, of course, have you been to the dispensary or infirmary—better go as you paid some money to that institu tion of dumihg—get your money’s worth. »*** **•* * Don’t run—until evening— * * why? why you will probably * * lose your breath—hold it—Phi * * Bete elections on this great * * day—many a black balled. #*# * * * * * * BOX-OFFICE ATTRACTION Be sure and see this popular show. Fran Morgan and Hugh Biggs in “Two Weeks to Play” sup ported by the A. S. U. O. Company now touring. HOUSEMOTHERS It has been rumored about ye campus and eating places that the Kappa Sigs have finally decided upon their choice for housemother. Luke—he hasn’t any more title— was inveigled into the lunch room of the Kappa Sigs shack—they promised to make him housemother —the question at stake is—did he accept? • • • PASSING OUT CIGARS? SEVEN SEERS J CAMPUS ! .Bulletin! Order of “O” meeting 11:00 to day—Men’s Gym. Agora meeting scheduled for to night’ postponed until next Thurs day. TJnaffiliated students may have pictures taken for the 1927 Oregana at the Kennell-EUis studio any morning, or by appointment. Harvard club dinner, 6 p. m. at the Anchorage. Make reservations for plates with Prof. F. S. Dunn by noon. Pi liambda Theta will hold a luncheon, Thursday, November 2, at the College Side Inn. To-Ko-Lo meeting tonight 7:30— College Side Inn. Meeting of the executive council of the Women’s League in the Wom an’s room of the Woman’s building at 7:30 tonight. Meeting of Graduate club, Fri day, December 3, at 7:30 p. m. in Woman’s building. Men’s freshman hygiene—Those absent from classes this week, se cure final examination sheets in the office of the men’s gymnasium be fore Friday. Educational club meeting Thurs day evening, December 2, in room 2 Education building. Paper by H. S. Tuttle of the school of education, “The Progress of Character Educa tion.” Paper by Miss Stauffer of •the Portland Center, on '‘The Edu I cational Activities of the Congrega j tional Church.” Grille Dance Campa Shoppe Friday & Saturday HEY! HEY! Along with this strip of paper you will find $1.00 in either check or bill covering the offer of the remaining five issues of the “Webfoot” starting with the “St. Nick No.” A Present To .. Name Send this to the “Webfoot” University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Address n m, Pr 1M JIk$T Ascenseur Ascensor Ascensore Elevador Lift Elevator OTIS *7he above are reproductions of the Japanese, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, English, American and universal equivalents for elevators. On sea or on land, at home or abroad, the single word OTIS is sufficient. 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