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©rcgutt iatlg jEmetalb University of Oregon, Eugene •OL ABRAMSON, Editor EARL W. SLOCUM, M«nager EDITORIAL BOARD Ray Nash _Managing Editor Harold Mangum --... Sports Editor Phillipa Sherman, Feature Editor News and Editor Phones, 655 DAT EDITORS: Claudia Fletcher. Beatrice Harden, Bob Galloway, Genevieve Morgan, lfinnie Fisher. Alternates: Flossie Radabaugh, Grace Fisher. NKSHT EDITORS: Bob Hall, Clarence Curtis, Wayne Morgan, Jack Coolidge. SPORTS STAFF: Jack O'Meara, Dick Syring, Art Schoeni, Charles Burton, Harry Van Dine. FEATURE WRITERS: Donald Johnston, Joe Sweyd, Ruth Corey, A1 Clarke, Sam Kinley, John Butler. UPPER NEWS STAFF: Jane Dudley, Alice Kraeft, Edith Dodge. MEWS STAFF: Helen Shank, Grace Taylor, William Schulze, Herbert Lundy, Marian Stan, Dorothy Baker, Kenneth Roduner, Cl eta McKennon, Betty Schultze, Elaine Crawford, Frances Cherry, Margaret Long, Mary McLean, Barbara Blythe, Bess Duke, Ruth Newman, Miriam Shepard, Lucile Carroll, Betty Schmeer, Mail die Loomis, Ruth Newton, Dan Cheney, Eva Nealon, Margaret Hensley, Bill Hag gerty, A1 Canfield, Margaret Clark. BUSINESS STAFF lfilton lieorge .- Associate Manager Sam Kinley . Advertising Manager Herbert Lewis . Advertising Manager F. Edwin Ross .. Foreign Advertising Mgr. Joe Neil . Assistant Advertising Manager r rancis Mcn.enna _ circulation Manager Bob Dutton — Aas’t. Circulation Manager Ruth Corey ...._ Specialty Advertising Alice McGrath - Specialty Advertising Roberta Wells . Office Administration Advertising Assistants: Kutn street, John Alien, riossie KauabauKn, Koderick L*a Feflfctte, Maurine Lombard, Charles Reed, Larry Thielen, Carol Eberhart. Office Administration: Dorothy Davis, Irene Bowlsby, Ed Sullivan, William Miller, Lon Anne Chase, Ruth Field. Day Editor This Issue—Minnie Fisher Night Editfyr This Issue—Wayne Morgan JAssistant—Sidney Dobbin Hie Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of *hs University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during tha collage year. Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice mt logcue, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates, $2.60 per year. Adver ting rates upon application. Residence phone, editor, 2293-L; manager, 1320. Basinets office phone, 1895. Unsigned comment in this column is written by the editor. Full responsibility ap assumed by the editor for all editorial opinion. TO DEAFEN with little bells the spirit that would think. Victor Hugo. Evidences of Sportsmanship IT IS not the Emerald’s purpose to interfere in Eugene high school's muddled athletic situation. But there is a pertinent relationship between the affair and university athletics in general. , Without assuming to know the intimate details of the squabble, the Emerald would place the blame for the trouble on the high school and school board officials who made con cessions, no matter the degree of their importance or unimportance, to the belligerent students. Simply because of the enforcement of an ineligibility ruling in the caso of a football player, a group of stu dent-enthusiasts took it upon them selves to “right” matters by doing as much harm as possible about the school. A strike was settled very much in favor of the self-styled martyrs whose conduct warranted their expulsion from the institution. A similar incident in Baltimore called forth the following editorial comment from the Baltimore Sun: Professionalism in college foot ball is bad enough. But when the desire to win at all costs invades and dominates high school ath letics, the situation created is in tolerable. It is said that without the as sistance of a youth named Mich ael Noonan, first ruled ineligible to play and now expelled from City College, that team will prob ably be defeated by Polytechnic in the football game today. What does that matter, so long as the team does its best and makes a clean and courageous stand against the opponent? If the spirit of sportsmanship still exists at “City”—and we are loath to be lieve that it does not—the school would much rather be defeated without Noonan than win with him. The evidence that he is in eligible under agreements in inter scholastic sport seems irrefutable. If it were not, the youth’s out rageous conduct toward Dr. Bur dick would be sufficient to stamp him undesirable material for clean and honorable athletic contests. The unfortunate position in which City College has placed it self is emphasized by the fact that the Noonan boy is not the only member of the team debarred by the conditions of eligibility which rule the City-Polv game. If these boys should not play in this game, they should not have played in any prior matches of the season. And childish protests bv the student body against the operation of regulations in the interest of clean sport can only serve to strengthen the unfavor able comment which the Noonan incident arouses. It is indeed bad enough when stu dents are so fired with the desire to win that they are ready to do any thing from wrecking the school building to white washing (literally) the principal in protest against a very legitimate ruling. But when these same students are permitted, even for a time, to dictate and re main in the institution, the condi tion is intolerable. How much appeal does the Sun’s suggestion of “playing the game for the game’s sake” hold for the aver Commun ications Brickbats for tie Seers Seven Seers, Ine. Pear Messdames: I could do with less gratuitous advertisement. Why do you not start a supplementary section ealled age high school or college football fan? Just try to tell these students that it is far more honorable to play the game without the contested player and lose rather than to play with him and win, and see how popular a note it sounds. The Emerald was recently critic ized for suggesting that the game is played to win, and not for its own sake. That, we were told, is the same as admitting that sportsman ship is dead; tljat idealism is dead. Where is the evidence of sports manship and idealism in the conduct of the high school belligerents? Our point is this: The revolt is not a passing childish outburst. The spirit that is being evidenced now and the attitude it forms are going to be carried over into the colleges by these same students (and they are representative of thousands). That same desire to win at any cost, while tempered by less-bending rules, is going to be ever-present. There is food for thought in this situation. IIAT kind of ‘salve’ is that ” ▼ on the fireplaces in the lib rary?” asked a young and innocent student. If the question is asked on Thurs day, th<f word doesn’t mean much, •for nothing is less soothing or* con ducive to peace of mind than to hear the announcement: “The lib rary is closing for assembly.” No matter how deeply engrossed in a reserve book one is, no matter how limited the time to study, one must leave. If the ruling was made in the hope that more students would at tend the weekly gathering, it, lias failed. Tfye students go home. The bait has to be unusually good to draw them to assembly of their own will. Why pretend longer that such a rule increases attendance at lectures? Surely when such a regulation has tailed of its purpose (largely because of uninteresting speeches) and re in,fins only as an annoyance, it should be discarded:—W. L. Library and Assembly Hours Don't Give Them Dangerous Ideas 11K Seven Seers, when in trouble, need our support about ns mueli as the army needs the boy scouts. So we leave the columnists to defend themselves from the at tack levied by a member of the faculty in a communication appear in'; in today’s Emerald. \\ e write, rather, in defense of the Emerald. The relation of pub licity to success is the problem of the complainant and the Seers. But e hen Professor Smith suggests blackmail, we must register a pro test. lie seems to be aiming direct ly at the integrity of the Seers in a malicious effort to undermine their amateur standing. The suggestion offered is likely to have a bad effect on the staff. W e can’t accept it. Furthermore, we don’t want anyone else to ad vance such dangerous and unethical ideas to our workers. 1-ct it be understood that if blackmailing is to bo at all resorted to. it is reserved for the use of the editor alone. With each staff mem ber a potential blackmailer there must be some centralization of au thority. Checks should be made out to the editor, personally. the Seven Sneers, which people would pay to keep out off I should be glad to be a contributor to this column. \ ou might make more money out of what you don’t print than out of what you do. Yours ungratefully, STEF HENSON SMITH On Revising Opinions To the Editor: 1 he best test of criticism is its As Others See it Lord and Lady Nicotine (Ohio State Lantern) Other campuses are being stirred by controversies over eo-cd smoking at the present time. From time to time there has been discussion over it at Ohio State but it never quite reached the dignity of a controversy. And that, we are prepared to face the world and say, is a good thing. Such dicussion and such contro versy, although it may be interest ing, leads to nothing and is just a waste of time. If Miss Co-ed wants to smoke a cigarette now and then, she'll do it and there’ll be no one to raise a forbidding hand—that is with any degree of success. These are days of equal rights and privileges, of single standards, and if women want to smoke they can and do claim the privilege. Most objections to it come from the other sex, of course, and that be cause the picture of the ideal woman in the male mind does not include a cigarette between arched, red lips. Co-ed smoking here is not nearly as prevalent as it is in other col leges and universities, particularly in the East. Here is it still rare enough to attract attention. In some other universities a co-ed would not think of leaving for a football game without a package of cigarettes in her pocket. Here it is exceptional to see a co-ed smoking at a game and th% only other places that any can be seen at all are in a few of the restaurants and occasionally at parties and dances. Few, if any, of the smoking co-eds enjoy the pastime. They go at it laboriously and usually when a cig arette is half-consumed they throw it away with an air of relief. Most of them smoke simply because it has come to be considered smart and the thing to do. With them it is incense burned in worship of the god of fashion. If, through some inconceivable miracle, smoking for women should become passe prac tically all ’ of them would abandon their fags immediately and perhaps heave a sigh of relief in so doing. They don’t enjoy it, but. then, that’s their privilege. On the other hand if an edict for bidding women smoking would be passec by some all-powerful body or person s.teh as Congress, the practice would increase by leaps and bounds. Such are the ways of women, or wider than that, such is human nature. Let them rnjoke, if they wish. It’s a cinch tney can’t be stopped anyway. Besides, isn’t the patron saint of smokers, Lady Nicotine, one of their own sex? Furthermore, as any co-ed will tell you on the slightest provocation, it’s nobody else’s business. And that’s that. power to make one think. And the best test of the truly educated per son is his power to think no matter how badly his pet prejudices have been hurt. Yet how many are will ing to do this? There is a spirit of pseudo-radic alism on the campus. It’s the kind of thing that makes students render lip service to writers because it is the thing to do. And the “thing to do” is the rule of the campus. In other words the individual must con form—he must believe that all is "ell and that day^ by day every thing is growing bigger and better. Honest criticism—based on facts —has been notably lacking on the v.unpus. Is it too much to expect that students will stop to think be fore decrying criticism of their opin ions ? Few opinions are absolutely incapable of revision. Let’s shake off this college type of Babbittry. W. M. L. A Defender To the Editor and E. Z. D. I nm writing this in defense of the Oregon Emerald, the ideals for which it stands, and the manner in which they are expressed. “E. Z. 1'." who find it "incumbent” upon himself to protest, seems to be in a frenzy as to the Emerald’s "public opinion.” Truly this misinformed person has ■i wicked pen, and in defense of the enterprise for which we all labor, perhaps I should challenge E. Z. d. to a duel. I won’t do this however ,, Pffhaps he is an exponent of the manly ’ art of fencing, while I only can sling ink. X' dear E. Z. D., come around some night to the beloved Shack and see what a fool you are making °* t°tT J by Sayin« that the editor and the Emerald are not worthy of the respect of the Oregon students. JOE SWEYD Turnbull und Thaeher Attend Press Meeting George Turnbull and W F G Thacher. both professors in ' the school of journalism, left yesterday tor MeMinneville where thev will attend the district conference of the High School Press association, in session there over the week end. Doth university men will appear on the program. Tk SEVEN & SEERS a Dirg no more sport or cutting capers exams soon, and three term papers. A WHITE FLAG CAN MEAN EITHER PEACE OR MEASLES. • • • THIS IS THE WAY A sure-fire way to get a good grade in a course. Approach in structor two weeks before term ends. Extend right hand. Grasp right hand of prof and shake vigorously up and down with motion used in mixing drinks. (Recipe handed in and approved by Genevieve Hale.) Dra. Conklin and Taylor gave an entertainment for their beginning psychology students in the Condon library yesterday morning at 9:00. The room, in keeping with the early morning hour, was decorated with all manner and sizes of electric gongs. A huge dazzling spotlight played upon the students as they danced to music furnished by an or chestra, in the geology room. The crowd was kept in constant uproar by one of the features in which sev eral men tried rolling barrels down the aisles without hitting desks. Favors were distributed by the ex plosion of in immense bomb. ONLY TWENTY-TWO UNTIL XMAS! Do your pearly. DAYS flunking FOLKS WE CAN CONSCIEN TIOUSLY KILL: The thoughtless person ^in the home town who sends us a postal on our birthday! “Do you want to hear a good low joke?” “Out with it!” “Two men were working down in a mine and—” (ambulance) Officer Kichvell (R. O. T. C.): What are you laughing at, Private C'reath? Alleged Private Creath: Mr. Me Elroy, Sir. Officer Kidwell: Ah ha, you didn’t know I was here did you? • • • “The wurst is yet to come,” said a casual observer as a butcher chased a stray dog out of his shop with a butcher knife. We heard one guy say the dis traction in the Psych, attention test didn’t effect him any. Said he’d been on a study table once. “WE’RE LIKE A CIGARETTE STUB—DOWN BUT NOT OUT!” < t i SEVEN SEERS Alpha Chi Omegas To Give Tea Sunday Alpha Chi Omega girls are giving a tea at their chapter house Sunday afternoon from 2 to 6 o’clock for about 150 of the University faculty members. Receiving will be Mrs. Anna Hart, Marian Clear, Norma Stamp. Leota Biggs and Miriam Little are to give a musical pro gram. !1CAMPUS ! Bulletin!, Physical Ability Test will be giv en at men’s gymnasium, Saturday, Dee. 4, at 10 a. m. TJnaffiliated students may have pictures taken for the 1927 Oregana at the Kennell-Ellis studio any morning, or by appointment. Philosophy club: Meets Monday, Dec. 6, at 7:30 in Woman’s build ing. Dr. Gustave Mueller will speak on “Is There Such a Thing as Beauty and What Is It.” M. McCullough Accepts Girl Reserve Position Miss Margaret McCullough, ’25, who is doing graduate work in the English department towards her master’s degree this term, has ac cepted a position as field secretary of the Girl Reserves in Astoria. She will assume her new duties at the end of the present term, but plans to continue her graduate work in the future. Subscribe for the Emerald Do you like candy? We are busy making it! The Taffy Tavern 833 Willamette The Ideal Gift In Jewelry Utility combined with beauty —make a Watch the ideal Christmas. Gift! Both of those desired elements are well fea- . , tured in these Gift offerings: For “Her” $25 to $50 For “Him” $17 to $50 The Home of Dependable Watches The laboratories and shops of industry are the sources of many of the enduring attainments of w times. 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