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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1927)
(Oregon ©atlg gmctalii University of Oregon, Eugene BOL ABRAMSON, Editor EARL W. SLOCUM, Manager EDITORIAL BOARD Bay Nash..—. Managing Editor Harold Mangum ... Sports Editor s-Wotkv. J on pa . Literary Editor— Henry Alderman . Contributing Bertram Jessup . Contributing Paul Luy . Feature Editor Editor Editor News and Editor Phones, 655 DAY EDITORS: Beatrice Harden, Genevieve Morgan. Minnie Fisher. Barbara Blythe. Bill Haggerty. Alternates: Flossie Radabaugh, Grace r isher. NIGHT EDITORS: Bob Hall, Supervisor: Wayne Morgan, Jack Coolidge, John Nance, Henry Lumpee. _, _ . . . _ , SPORTS STAFF: Jack O’Meara, Assistant Sports Editor; Dick Syring, Art Schoeni, Hoyt Barnett, Dick Jones, Bob Foster. , FEATURE WRITERS: Donald Johnston, Ruth Corey, John Butler, Joe Sweyd, LaWanda Feniason. , _ , „ „ UPPER NEWS STAFF: Jane Epley, Alice Kraeft, Edith Dodge, Bob Galloway. NEWS STAFF- Grace Taylor, Herbert Lundy, Marian Sten, Dorothy Baker, Kenneth ^duner Betty Schultee, Frances Cherry, Margaret Long. Mary McLean, Bess 5X'Ruth Newman Miriam Shepard, Lucile Carroll, Eva Nealon, Margaret Ml il.™,T‘l,rl< John Allen Grayce Nelson, Dorothy Franklin, Eleanor Edwards, wXJ c Amo" Burg”'Betty" Hagen, Leoia Ball, Dan Cheney, Ruth Newton. __ BUSINESS STAFF Milton George Herbert Lewis Joe Neil . Larry Thielen Ruth Street .. . Associate Manager . Advertising Manager Advertising Manager .1 Foreign Advertising Mgr. . Advertising Manager Francis McKenna .... Circulation Manager Ed BisscII . Ass’t Circulation Mgr. | Wilbur Shannon . Circulation Ass’t Ruth Corey . Specialty Advertising i Alice McGrath . Specialty Advertising j Advertising Assistants: Flosaie Radabaugh. Roderick LaFoliette, Maurme Lomoaru, Charles Reed, Bob Moore, Bill Hammond, Oliver Brown. Office Administration: Dorothy Davis, Lou Anne Chase, Ruth Field, Emily Williams. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of j the ^IveWof o£gon — Men*. Oregon^afl1 SMon^-dMS^matter.^Subscription rates^ $2.60 per year Adver tiaing rates upon application. Residence jjhone, editor, 2293-L, manager, 1S2U. , Business office phone, 1895. _________ i Day Editor This Issue—Bee Harden Niaht Editor This Issue—Jack Coolidge Assistant—Addison Brockman. IT IS error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.— Thomas Paine. Two and Two Equal Four -ITTITHOUT asking anyone’s per W mission, we shall present proof that two and two equal four, hoping to mako our meaning so clear that it will be plain to every- | one—and perhaps even to the would-be censors of the Emerald. The freshman class meeting yes terday adopted, by unanimous vote, a resolution opposing transfer of Emerald editorial control to tho publications committee, appointed by the A. S. U. O. president. At the same timo the class took what will be the first step toward abol ishing freshman hazing rules—-un less the student council denies this last request as a reprisal for tho first resolution. Now, the student council, legis lating in “the best interests” of tho student body, decreed that haz ing should remain. Tho Emerald, which is accused of misinterpreting student sentiment, disagreed with tho council. The only negative voto cast in council meeting was that of tho editor. Now will tho council, composed of 15 members, claim that by tho vote of its one black sheep it gavo the freshman class duo representa tion in proportion to its numbers'? Can it honestly say that it repre sented tho students in tho threo upper classes who likewiso opposed their stand? Can it continue its charge that on this issue the Em erald spoke a lone opinion? And tlieso councilmen cry that the Emerald is unrestrained and ir responsible. The recall weapon they brand as unwieldly. Hut when they fail to represent tho students how may they be checked? How may the student president be checked? Only by the same method as the Emerald editor—recall. Why should they be a law unto themselves? Why should the stu dent body president be a law unto himself? Not content with this authority, the council and the pres ident would take unto themselves, through the president-selected pub lications committee, the editorship of the Emerald. “I don’t think the Emerald edi tor has any more right to claim ab solute liberty in office any moro than the president of tho student body, or other officials,” said Mr. Higgs. Beg your pardon, but wo don’t think the president of the student body or any other officials have any more right to claim absolute liberty in office than the editor of the Emerald. Why not be fair and grant tho •■(liter the right to act as censor upon the president of the student body, as a communicant suggests today ? We call the attention of our read erg to the messages from two Port land editors, printed on the tirsf page. They explain the "justice” ef the proposed amendment. It may be argued that the publications committee would not practice re struiut on the editor. The point is this: the vicious power to do so exists, and may be employed by the president, through hand-picked com mittee members, to make the Em erald the rubber stamp of himself and the council. The issue is; shall we have a free press, presenting honest criticism, or shall we have an Emerald "of Commun ications Measure for Measure To the Editor: What this University needs is more committees. A committee to the president and council, by the president and council, and for the president and the council.” And if our meaning isn’t plain, we’ll say it in this manner: Wo deny that the president and the council are necessarily repre sentative of the student body. Sin cere they may be, but they are as suming too much in setting them selves up as infallible and invar iable reflectors of the wishes of those who have put them into of fice. The Emerald never has made such exaggerated claims for itself. Reason is often of great value. The Genius Of Easter AND now comes Easter. Easter, that festival day so curious on our modern calendar. Three main strands of historic folk beliefs and customs are clearly distinguishable in its present day observance. Jew ish, Teutonic Pagan, and Christian elements unite to make it a day truly congenial to our medley cul ture. For the orthodox Jew who, faith ful to his traditions, rejocts Jesus as the Paschal Lamb and the Christ, there is still the meaning of the Passover. For the traditional Christian still passionately cling ing to the groat hope for personal immortality—the great hope blend ed of tho Pagan Greek joy of life and the Oriental rejection of the world—-for him there is Easter with its central meaning of tho Resurrec tion. And what of the Pagan multitude which is content to leap through life from immediacy to immediacy, blissfully unused to ask “what then”? And what of the scarred, true heirs of the glory and the scourge of man—his thought ? What of them that hear to the elders say ing, “His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept”? Ah, but for them there is tho gentle goddess of April and the spring. The life-reviving Eostre of the Norsemen. She who drove the long hard darkness and the gloomy vapours from tho land, and raised the flowers and the fruits. Tt is the spirit of Eostro that, however much unsuspected, moves our Teutonic spirit to pagan expres sion at Easter-time. Out of the sheer uncritical joy of life wo hail to the Easter-rabbit and worship him as tho symbol of prolific life. And on our breakfast table on Easter morning we look to the egg as the great symbol of the mystery of life. And we color it with splen did hues which bring to us the memory of the coming of the great goddess of light and life after the long, dark and dead winter. And, urged on by our visible pagan con sciences, the sellers of hats and robes, we deck our bodies anew in imitation of nature, and in token of our joy in bright, new life. Yes, there is a most curious ming ling of the many elements of our culture in the outward and inward show of this day of Easter. And there is a deep union too in tho impulses and yearnings which give it expression. It is the will to live the joy of life. Life in the grace of the Passover, life in the Resur rection, and life in the flowering of spring. “Awake, thou wintry earth— Fling oft' thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient gladness! Christ is risen again.” xings ini old Easter hymn half pagan, half Christian in mood. It testifies to the universal signifi cance of Easter—some kind of an Easter—to all who are men.—B. J. direct the policies of the Emerald has already been suggested. Now what we need is a group of com mittees to tell the committee men on these other"committees how they should stand on this or that meas ! ure. Then, of course, in order to be ' sure that there would be no foul ' play we would have to appoint an other group of committees to see Tk SEVEN 'SEERS Well, tlie A. T. O. freshmen were the most industrious yesterday morning. Consequently their candi date, Harold Brumfield leads the long list. This ballot and the one tomorrow morning will decide the leading five, and next week the ballot will bo much shorter. This is how it read at 6 o’clock last night: H. BRUMFIELD . 2670 F. EHLERS .2290 BILL JAMES .2040 FRANK MAYER .1810 SIMMERVILLE .1350 TOM CROSS .1340 GRUELICH . 760 BOB VAN ORMAN . 540 WENDELL GRAY . 500 FRED WEST . 410 VIC WETZEL . 330 TOM GRAHAM . 290 DUD CLARK . 240 RUSS JARBOE . 210 FRANK GERMAN . 200 JERRY GUNTHER . 180 JACK RENSHAW . 160 SAM KINLEY . 160 WESTERGREN . 140 CLIFF POWERS . 130 FRANK RIGGS . 120 LAURENCE SHAW . 110 BILL BAKER . 100 ED CROWLEY . 100 MARIAN MILLER . 60 • • • There’s always something to take the joy out of life. It’s time to pay fees right now. ‘ ‘ The president intends to spend some time on the campus handling the internal problems of the Uni versity.” (Oregon Daily Emerald.) Strange and unusual behavior for a college president, indeed. Little Jack Horner, Stood on the corner, Eating political pie; lie stuck in his thumb For a nice juicy plum And said, ‘‘What a good boy am I.” • * • RESTRICTION OF PERSONAL LIBERTY AND PROTECTION OF STUDENT MORALS AT OUR GREAT UNIVERSITY: Virginia Judy Esterly (dean of women) requests that all women students wear coats to cover their riding habits while they are on the campus. * * * BILL JAMES and HAROLD BRUMFIELD standing along by tilt1 Lib giving everyone a good look at their freshly pressed and sponged clothes. • • • FAMOUS LAST WORDS: SAVE YOUR COUPONS FOR OUR MAN. * I THINK . * * IS THE BEST DRESSED MAN * * ON THE CAMPUS, AND * * WISH TO CAST THIS COU- * * PON, WORTH TEN VOTES IN * * HIS FAVOR. * SEVEN SEERS. I that the members of the committees ’ did exactly as they were told to do. Perhaps the members of the stu ! dent council have some really good i ideas on how to run the Emerald. Maybe they can write a book of ! policies and then there would be no I need at all of an editor." Just clip 1 an editorial from the book each day ( and send it to the press. Then to carry the idea further, why not write several dozen form stories and abolish the staff of re | porters. It "s really too bad that the Stu | dent Council can’t censor every I thing that goes in the Emerald— ! maybe they wouldn’t be criticized so much then. Indignantly, DAN CHENEY Proposed Road to Panacea To the Editor: The student body’s council’s sug gestion for an amendment to the constitution, of the Associate stu dent body of the U. of 0., to check the freedom of the editor of the Emerald is not only an excellent one but also flawless. But while the council is in the mode of suggesting constitutional amendments, we beg to hint that they would make an other suggestion, if it is not too late, of equal importance as the one already suggested; that is, to pro vide for a check on the freedom of the student body president. Tn other words, a committee should be appointed by the editor of the Em erald whose duty would be, to con trol the president’s speech—policy. That is to (1) require the president to write down all of his speeches, which he is to make in interest of the student body, and submit them to this committee for censorship; (2) a member of this committee, with a copy of the president’s speech, should always accompany him to see that ho does not leave anything out of his speech or add anything to it that the committee did not authorize. Thus neither any unscrupulous editor of the Emerald or any radical student body presi dent will ever have any chance to err at the student body’s expense. All we can do now is to arrange for a sunrise prayer meeting and pray for the dawn of this Golden Era when there will be no more controversy or difference of opinion, but we will all be living peacefully and gayly waiting, as children do for Santa Claus, for some one to come to put knowledge into our minds. When this day comes, let us not forget to reward the student coun cil for its proposed road to Panacea. C. LOUKAS For an Unmuzzled Emerald To the Editor: Let ua rally, all who agree with me, to the support of an unfettered Emerald. There is evidently an at tempt on the part of the student council to put a muzzle on the next editor of the Emerald by appointing an editorial chaperone. Some of us, it seems, never get over our high-school mentality and wish to be spoon-fed all the time. Honest criticism, individual thooght, anything different from what they were tahght in their home-town high school siares them and gives them shivers. I think the Emerald under Ed Miller had assumed a commendable and worthwhile policy which has been courageously carried on by Sol Abramson/ the present editor of the Emerald. The Emerald has spon sored and made possible the student report which resulted in the new program of the Junior College, the plans for which are now being de veloped by faculty committees. The most prominent educators the nation over are watchful for further de velopments. The editorials in this year's Em erald have been thoughtful, serious and stimulating, most always deal ing with some important problem facing the students and the univer sity. If the campus opinion has dis agreed with anything stated, the correspjomTenhe solhmns have ali correspondence columns have al ways been open, thus giving ready expression to campus sentiment. No editor, or any other group of men, can or will represent the stu dent opinion as a barometer does atmospheric pressure. If you dis agree with me, as your fellow stu dent’s opinion on how wise it was to build a basketball pavilion. We want an Emerald free of ten ure to any council or committee, independent, intellectually stimulat ing, representing ns it does now all aspects of a great university. Yours for an unmuzzled Emerald, A SENIOR Subscribe for the Emerald To those who enjoy eatin * (fl HE Anchorage has for several years enjoyed a unique place in the hearts of Oregon stud ents. Is is known as the one spot where a quiet, congenial atmosphere goes hand in hand with deli cious food. In taking over the owner ship of the Anchorage, it is my purpose to continue the same cordial hospital ity—the same choice meals —and to couple them with improved service. You will always be wel come at the Anchorage— “Come as you are.” Club Luncheons Campus groups will find our lunch eon nooks most delightful places for social or business gatherings. Time and orders will be arranged to suit your convenience, and prompt serv ice is assured. Dancing Parties held at the Anchorage are long re membered by their guests. Pictures que surroundings—quiet seclusion— cooling refreshments—ideal for an evening’s dancing. —Darle Seymour. (?1je Anchorage “A Secluded Rendezvous” Phone 30 LARAWAY’S New Portable Plays Orthophonic Records Just Arrived! At last we announce a new Portable Phonograph to play the late Electric Records Hear This New Portable Introductory Price Terms if Desired Lara way’s Music Store Reginald DENNY IN Take It From Me! From the sensational musical comedy by Will B. Johnstone and Will R. Anderson. How would you spend a mil lion dollars in 90 days? Den ny says “It can’t be done.’* See how he tried to do it. Pathe News Usual News Prices Also “OUR GANG” COMEDY Hal Roach presents His Rascals in “Telling Whoppers’’ Directed by Robert McGowan