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THE moat, dangerous foe to
truth an(T freedom in our
midst is the compact majority.—
Henrik Ibsen.
Something TSeiv
In Sports Ethics
—
CODES of ethics are always in
teresting, and in printed form,
especially if enclosed in nice frames,
they add dignity to any office wall.
Every so often revised codes are
composed and promulgated by any
number of organizations, represen
tative of trade, business, profession
al and fraternal bodies. They are
always conceived, wo suppose and
hope, in fine spirit, contain com
mendable sentiments, and are wide
ly advertised.
The printed code invariably finds
its way to tho office wall, which is
its permanent resting place. There
it stays, a monument to man’s im
practical moments, when ho soars
iC clouds forgetting that he has
no wings.
The latest '‘new code of ethics”
is particularly interesting, because
it aimg at a solution of an athletics
problem important to most Amer
ican universities. It was unanimous
ly adopted at a recent meeting of
the “Big Sixty” members of tho
Western Athletic Conference, and
steps are being taken to enforce its
provisions, thereby giving it the
appearance of a set of rules. Copies
of the code have been sent to every
alumni association of members of
tho “Big Ten.” A penalty system
for violators of the code is being
worked out. The ethics, which are
meant mainly to govern football,
follow:
“1. Scholarships, loans, and re
mission of tuition shall not bo
awarded on a basis of athletic
skill and unofficial granting of
financial aid by individuals, alum
ni, organizations, or others whose
primary object in granting aid
shall be subsidy to an athlete will
be considered as unethical.
“2. Athletic directors and
coaches shall not bv ifiitintion cor
respond, distribute literature, or
by personal interview of their
own seeking attempt to recruit
prospective athletes. It shall be
considered legitimate for coaches
and directors in speeches, answers
to inquiries, or casual conversa
tion to point out what they be
lieve to be the advantages of at
tending the university they repre
sent. Coaches and directors shall
be of active influence in discour
aging questionable recruiting by
alumni, students, and organiza
tions.
“3. Alumni and students as
clubs, fraternities, informal
groups, or individuals shall scrup
ulously follow the same rules of
conduct as expected of coaches
and directors regarding recruiting
of athletes and shall also do all
in their power to prevent violation
by others. They shall vigorously
oppose unreasonable and unfair
rushing of prospective athletes
that will deprive them of free
and deliberate choice. They shall
recognize that the resorting to
questionable recruiting methods is
a manifestation of disloyalty and
poor sportsmanship.
“4. General or field secretaries
of alumni associations and sim
ilar officers shall be particularly
careful to refrain from recruit
ing activities.
“5. Prospective athletes shall
not be promised employment in or
by the athletic department. After
matriculation they may be em
ployed, in necessary work if paid
on a regular and reasonable scale
if they give full service.”
This code of ethics has the virtue
of openly recognizing existent evils,
and that is the first step in any re
form movement. Concerted action is
the only means of doing away with
the race for athletic talent, in which
prospects are often promised any
thing but a mortgage on the various
administration buildings.
While this system has long been
viewed with growing disfavor,
there has been no one institution
willing to take the lead in dis
carding it. Each works with its
eyes on tho others, and the result
is a vicious circle. One might just
as well oxpect one nation to dis
arm lu tho hopo that others will
follow tho example.
As just another code of ethics, we
would be inclined to scoff at the
possibility of any good resulting
from the Western Conference’s fine
sentiments. Adherence to the code
would mean the realization of a
necessary house-cleaning in ath
letics and the opening of the way to
a more healthy plan. This step alone
would not solve the problem, but it
might be the entering wedge.
Hut the newly-adopted code of
i ethics, or rules, is going to have
teeth—an interesting and unique de
tail that has somehow been over
looked in former gestures, thereby
rendering them little more than
graceful flatulency.
! More Youthful
I Degeneracy
ANOTHER eastern college stu
dent has gone to jail, accord
ing to a recent press dispatch; this
time just because he slapped his
girl friend. The lady, it seems, after
cruelly breaking a date with him,
answered his remonstrance with the
information that he was less Ilian
the dust beneath her patent heel
and would he please remove himself
forever from her particular horizon?
—or words to that effect.
Whereupon the young man prompt
ly saw red or black or some other
conventionally perturbing hue, and
very appropriately “let fly.” Tie
had probably been rereading thoso
awful Tarzan books.
The incident is simply another
proof of the woeful lack of romance
characterizing our modern civiliza
tion. Any woman of fine percop
I tions, Delilah, say, or Guinevere,
would have been thrilled at the
i enormity of a passion so feverishly
brutal. To unceremoniously clap
one's swain in the local hoosegow
for nothing more than a spontan
eous manifestation of thwarted ten
i derness would have been the depths
of unspeakably calloused obduracy.
He it understood that the young
woman herself was scarcely at fault.
It is, rather, the age—an age that
would doubtless characterize the
; fate of Romeo and .Tuliet as simply
! another student suicide.— H. A.
Commun
ications
Hif a lutin’ Hardware
To the Editor:
I atn hoartilv in sympathy with
your efforts to create a proper stim
ulus and appreciation for the su
perior university student. Solely on
account of tit is sympathy I raise a
few questions and humbly submit
the following suggestion.
In seeking to develop superior
scholarship why should you not
make use of such means as have been
useful in promoting excellence in
that time-honored and efficient in
stitution, the army? Can it lie pos
sible you are so befogged by schol
astic speculation ns to be unmind
ful of the successful operation of a
system on our campus which bestows
merit where merit is due and which
also encourages the superior soldier
to continue on his upward way
which, in a striking manner, is the
very thing you are trying to accom
plish in an educational way?
Take, for instance, the diligent
recruit who early determines to ex
cell in his military education. His
application is noted. Presently he is
rewarded with a decoration which
proclaims in honest, forth right fash
TfeSEVEN
s SEERS
The legislature has adjourned and
the best politicians that money can
buy have all gone to their repec
tive homes, to get the spring plow
ing started.
We’ll probably see an ad some
thing like this in the EMJSRALD in
about a week: “Will the boy who
once tried to steal our goat please
try again. Delta Gamma.”
• * •
“AND NOW MY TAIL IS
DONE,” SAID THE OX AS IIE
LOOKED IN THE SOUP.
Gretchen is learning how to drive
her new Ford. She says this world
is just one big forest of telephone
poles.
* # •
Scientist tell us that light travels
229,796 kilometers a second. Light
would seem to have some chance of
getting from a 10 o’clock in the
Music building to a 11 o’clock in
Villard on time.
* * *
It will be great fun to pay 50
cents to see the California games
played in the pavillion we’re al
ready paying 515 a year toward
building.
• • •
THE other day my
FATHER got peeved
WITH his eldest son’s
HABIT of running out
OF BLANK checks and
SENT up a big
FAT envelope containing
TWO whole books of
NICE fresh clean ones
FOB mo to use and
WHEN I first opened
THEM up I didn’t
THINK much about the
INCIDENT but a little
LATER I got to wondering
IF DAD was a pessimist
OR AN optimist to be
DOING such a thing
AND so I asked
MARION Fhv which she
THOUGHT it would bo
AND she said he was
NEITHER but a satirist
INSTEAD.
THANK.
Jt is probably just a coincidence,
ion here is a man better than the
common run. This decoration may
be a stripe on the left sleeve. It
may be a notice on the left breast,
something like a bin card, which
reads: “Marksman,” or “Private,
1st Class,” such as the case may be.
And so on up the ladder to mili
tary honors by way of gold bars,
silver bars, leaves and eagles to the
highly regarded stars of the general.
Thus are the steps symbolized be
fore the eager eye of the recruit.
And the apt response of the raw re
cruit, or the university freshman
or sophomore, in the past simply
proves the worth of this system.
As applied to the arts and sciences
the plan is simple. Instead of al
lowing the superior student to mope
around the campus unrecognized, I
suggest he be given a proper and
suitable decoration for his left
breast also. If he excells in re
I ectivo thinking let it be known by
the neat bin card: “Philosopher, 1st
Class.” Or should he achieve dis
tinction in geology let this become
manifest by cardboard: “A-l Cook."
The superior student will respond
to this appreciative treatment much
as does one promoted in the school
of Mars by feeling more dignified
and substantial. As for the excep
tional studen 1 suggest he might be
given bright spurs to wear, those
without rowels of course, to lend
dignity to his bearing, also to help
him to keep his feet on a roll top
desk.
Significant insignia for the va
rious schools could be chosen easily—
typewriter ribbon chevrons for the
journalists, or an emblem on their
coat collar of crossed type writers.
This detail could be easily worked
out should you consider the plan to
he suitable.
Yours for the betterment of edu
cation,
PAUL TRACY
but nevertheless the barber shops
were crowded all day yesterday and
today is the first day that the new
dog license law is in effect.
NEW SIG ALPH SERENADE
“The Shades Of Night Are Fall
ing Fast; Not So Those Of The Al
pha Gams.”
Last Sunday was the famous
spring that Washington imagines
Oregon having in June.
SIRUS PINCHPENNY’S DIARY
Early up and to an 8 o’clock of
Hugh Frame’s and did listen to him
discourse to great length upon the
subject of child labor and he did
surprise me so much that I could
not sleep anymore when all at once
he did say a word with an “r” in
it and really sounded the letter.
Methinks such action should be
dealt with severely by the other
members of the Harvard club. Anon
out to stand on the walk and no
sooner there than George Meade did
go by in his Dodge and a fellow
loafer did tell me that when George
sounds his horn for people to get
out of the way the co-eds mistake
the signal and step from the walk
to the curb.
O. A. C. WINS CHAMPIONSHIP
FOR OREGON
—Headline Portland paper. Noth-1
ing like a little championship byj
proxy!
BUY A WAR CRY!
COLONIAL: Last times today:
Constance Talmadge in “The Duchess !
of Buffalo.” She didn’t know Rus
sian sable from Tom cat but she
did know that her sweetie was the
handsomest boy in Russia, and it
didn’t take a troupe of Swiss bell
ringers to make her think of wed
ding chimes. Then there’s an Inter
national News and comedy.
Coming tomorrow—“The Great De
ception” with Aileen Pringle and
Ben Lyon.
» * *
McDONALD: Second day: “The
Night of Love,” a gorgeous drama
of love and daring adventure, with
the screen’s greatest lovers, Ron
ald Colman and Vilma'Banky in
the greatest roles of their brilliant
careers; atmospheric presentation, I
“Songs of Love,” featuring Kath- |
leen Powell, with Sharkey Moore
and the greater Merry-Macks in a
special stage setting, nightly at
nine; Frank Alexander in melodious
musical score, and playing “Songs
of Many Nations,” as an organ solo;
Felix cartoon comedy and Interna
tional news events.
Coming—Richard Dix in “Para
dise for Two,” a delightfully spirit
ed comedy-drama, with the dashing
“Dick” supported by pretty Betty
Bronson. Soon, the world’s premier
showing of Carl Laemmle’s “The
Fourth Commandment,” with Belle
Bennett and star cast.
REX: Last day: Vera Reynolds in
“Risky Business,” the story of a
very modern young lady, who hav
ing made up her mind to marry a
poor young man “for love,” sur
! mounted all obstacles, including a
| luxury loving mother with aspira
tions; Clever comedy and news week
ily; John Clifton Emmel at the organ.
I Coming—Harrison Ford (“The
Nervous Wreck”) and Bessie Love
in “Rubber Tires,” a hilarious com
edy epic of the modern covered
wagon.
1TETLTG: Today and Wednesday:
“The Flaming Forest” is a screen
adaptation by Waldemar Young of
James Oliver Curwood’s immortal
story of the establishing of law and
j order in the territory of three hun
i dred thousand square miles by some
three hundred brave men.
Friday and Saturday: “Tin Hats,”
the famous war comedy everyone
has been waiting for. This film is
, based upon the recent world war
I but without actual combat scenes.
Coming attractions: legitimate,
I “The Noose." melodramatic stage
play enronte from New York direct
! to San Francisco for an extended
iengagement, will appear March 8.
“Cradle Snatchers,” New York com
i edy hit, will have a return engage
ment March 14. Walker Whiteside
will come in “The Arabian,” March
28. Motion pictures: “The Return
j of Peter Grimm,” featuring Janet
Gaynor and deals with the question,
“Can the dead returnt” This is a
i Rex Ingram production. “The Ma
gician," a powerful story from the
pen of Somerset Maugham, is billed
for an early showing.
Idaho-W. S. C. Coaches
To Play Benefit Came
UNIVFTtSTTY OF IOATTO, Mos
cow—(PTPi—University of Idaho
and "Washington State college
i coaches will meet in a basketball
1 game here February 2S as a ben
efit to buv medals for the partici
pants on the state interscholastic
basketball tournament, which will
be held here March 10, 11 and 12.
This game is an annual event here
when the tournament is held in this
city.
CAMPUS’ ! )
Bulletin*,
L. F. Henderson, research fellow
in botany and curator of botany
museum, will read a paper on, “Some
Plants of Lewis and Clark Expedi
tion,” Tuesday evening, 7:15, in
room 107 Deady hall. Meeting open
to public. Sponsored by Samara,
honorary • botany fraternity.
Amphibians and girl’s all star
swimming team meet tonight at 7:30
in Woman’s building. Very im
portant.
Sculpture club meeting today 4
o’clock Mr. Fairbanks’ studio.
Important meeting of Kwama to
night, at 7:15, Woman’s building.
Varsity Managers Club meeting
tonight at 7 p. m. in graduate man
agers office.
Condon club meeting Tuesday eve
ning at 7:30. All associate and reg
ular members are requested to be
there.
Humanist club dinner at Anchor
age tonight, 6 to 8; discussion of
India’s religions; open to all in
terested.
Ye Tabard Inn meets tonight at
7:30, Journalism building.
REX
LAST
DAY
I
If you ate about to
commit mattimony ;
VERA
REYNOLDS
Risky Business'
It’s Comedy Drama
As You Like It
Rummage Sale Brings
Theta Sigma Phi $30
A rummage sale was held at the
public market Saturday by Theta
Sigma Phi, national women’s jour
nalism honorary. The society re
alized nearly $30, which will go to
help defray expense of sending a
delegate to the national convention,
scheduled for late next term.
The honorary will, in all probabil
ity, hold another sale next term.
ABILITY
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—to work
—to succeed
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LET’S HAVE YOUR VIEWS ON HOW THIS
ADVERTISING SHOULD BE HANDLED... JC'
We are told that many college men
and women are intensely interested
in advertising, per se.
The best letter received within two
weeks after the date of this adver
tisement, giving a criticism or sug
gestion on Stage advertising, will be
awarded a ten dollar prize—our ad
vertising agency to be the judge.
The only condition we make is that
the lettter must be written by one
of the students or faculty.
INCIDENTALLY—
to be perfectly frank —this is really an
advertisement for stage travel, so
Travel by Motor Stage for
business or pleasure!
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Old Gold
it's the Smooth est cigarette
u It was the‘big moment’of the show. And,
doggone it, I started to cough. If. looks
could kill, I’d have been murdered by
fifty people around me . . . That’s why
I switched to Old Gold Cigarettes.
There isn’t a cougfi in a carload.**
‘‘NOT A COUGH IN A CARLOAD”