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University of Oregon, Eugene
SOL ABRAMSON, Editor EARL W. SLOCUM, Manager
^TUTORIAL BOARD
p-r Nash_Managing Editor
Harold Mangum.. Sports Editor
Momici Jones —--— Literary Editor—
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Bertram Jessup ___ Contributing Editor
Paul Luy _ Feature Editor
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DAY EDITORS: Beatrice Harden, Genevieve Morgan, Minnie Fisher, Barbara Blythe,
Bill Haggerty. Alternates: Flossie Radabaugh, Grace Fisher. ___
NIGHT EDITORS: Bob Hall, Supervisor: Wayne Morgan, Jack Coolidge, John Nance,
Henry Lumpee, Herbert Jonas.
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 Fenlason.
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NEWS STAFF: Grace Taylor, Herbert Lundy, Marian Sten, Dorothy Baker, Kenneth
Roduner Betty Schultze, Frances Cherry, Margaret Long Mary McLean, Bess
Duke. Ruth Newman, Miriam Shepard, Lucile Carroll, Eva Nealon. Margaret
Hensley Margaret Clark, John Allen, Grayce Nelson, Dorothy Franklin, Eleanor
Edwards, Walter Coover, Amos Burg. Betty Hagen, Leola Ball, Dan Cheney, Ruth
Newton.
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The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of
tba University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during
the college year. Member of Pacific Intercollegiate I ress. Entered in the poBtoffice
at Eugene Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 per year. Adver
Slfag rates upon application. Residence phone, editor, 2293-L; manager, 1320.
Business office phone, 1896. ____
Day Editor This Issut—Genevieve Morgan
Assistant—Flossie Radabaugh
Night Editor This Issue—Bob Hall
Assistant—Harry Thayer.
Unsigned comment in this column is written by the editor. Full responsibility
|a assumed by the editor for all editorial opinion.
'VTUMBERS err in this—ten censure
wrong for one who writes amiss.
—Pope.
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Commun
ications
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‘•The State”
Gold Ilill, Oregon
To the Editor:
The editorial policy should stim
ulate rather than express student
opinion. Otherwise tho paper might
have to be suppressed altogether,
unless students have vastly changed
sinco my time.
The “state,” so much to bo feared
if an “uncontrolled” paper is cir
culated freely, cares far less about
ideas than it does about golf-knick
ers. I admit that there is much bit
ter criticism of plaid socks. I have
never heard these formidable tax
payers mention your ideas.
Sincerely,
MARGARET CARTER BUELL
Tho Law Says—
To the Editor:
Inasmuch as Mr. Biggs is a poten
tial lawyer it might interest him to
know that the editor of the Emer
ald can legally bo hold in case of
libel, contrary to his statement of
a few days ago.
It. is a general rule of agency that
the agent is always liable for his
own torts and the fact of agency
makes no difference.
Citations: Stephens v. Ehvell;
4 M and S ”59; Peterson v. McMan
us: 1ST la. 552; Meehem on Agency:
1480; and countless others.
One should know whereof ho
speaks.
Obligingly.
LAW
Harmony?
To the Editor of the Emerald:
Why does the student body presi
dent and student council believe
that in placing the editor of the
Emerald under advisory control of
the Publications committee, that
closer relations between the stu
dents and the editor would result!
Actually, the condition would be
more remote. At the present time,
the editor is elected by the students
and is responsible to them. Under
the proposed legislation, he would
be under the thumb of an appoint
ed board. Why isn’t the student
body president similarly placed! It
would be just as logical.
While inferring that the editor
does not represent student opinion,
does the student council represent
it with any more accuracyt Do they
consider themselves infallible iu this
respect, and also more able than the
editor to form the editorial policy f
If the students honestly feel that
the editor is all wrong, they have
the recall as their weapon. If this
legislation is obsolete, why not re
vise it instead of introducing an in
ferior one?
Letters favoring the proposed
amendment have been decidedly un
fair in making the matter one of
personal tone, directed at the pres
ent editor. This would suggest that
the “gag” proposal is a personal re
prisal, instead of what it assumes
to be, a movement for closer har
mony.
A SENIOR
One for All
To the Editor:
I believe that your stand of pre
serving the individuality of the
Emerald is good to a certain extent,
but when whole pages are used to
set forth the evils of the so-called
“gag rule” (a clever misleading
slogan) then we must agreo that
something is wrong with our organ
of unbiased college opinion. Of
course, you as editor of the Emerald
must maintain your stand against
all opposition even to the extent of
attacking the Order of the O, who,
wo are informed by your editorial
of this morning, threatened you
with bodily violence. But what if
they had executed their threat? You
would have appeared as a martyr,
and the cause of unfettered editor
ship would have been greatly ad
vanced. Possibly David could have
met them on the field of battle, and
slew the mighty giant.
We can’t all be editors, some of
us are just “heroes of the sinewy
arms,” and some of us are merely
students, for this reason as a mob
without feeling or thought we can
not be expected to have any of
them reflected in the editorial policy
of our daily. After weeks of rigid
training, and weary hours spent on
the football field, Oregon was about
to enter one of the hardest games
of the season. We will have to agree
that the student body was heart
and soul behind the team, but no,
an editorial appeared in the Emer
jald belittling all athletic endeavor.
| Dan you, for you probably did, im
agine the result of such an editorial
on the team, ret such an editorial,
I which expressed your individuality,
I was wholly foreign to the sentiment
| of the student body.
What if this individualism you
; crave would forward itself to the
I utmost extent? There would be no
! concerted action which has spelled
success in the past. True there is
no danger of it right now, but fol
I lowing it out to its ultimate end
we would have an institution that
| is only intellectually bent. Were
we to stroll down a pathway with
our eyes on the ground, and no
more physical life would resound than
that which comes from the graves
on the hill. Is that a fair picture to
paint or is it an exaggeration from
one who cares for the life of the
University?
But the point of it is that we are
afraid that this expression of indiv
idualism will lead to a Babylon like
discord, for no two men think in a
track that is the same. For concert
ed action let us have concerted en
deavors'-rthat can not come about
by such radical individualism. Of
course, we may be all wrong about
whether or not the general student
opinion is of this light, but one
guess is as good as another. Please
let’s not make this a hot bed for
young intellectuals—entirely.
Yours for a better Emerald,
FRED WILCOX
Too Late
The Editor:
Now that the question of the con
trol of the Emerald has been argued
so ably and abundantly on both
sides, perhaps the time is ripe for
suggesting some agreeable conclu
sion. We must be all aware by this
time, even the oldest and least
thoughtful of us, how excellent are
the principles espoused by both
parties to the controversy, and how
unanswerable their contentions.
Both the editor and the student
council, we are assured, equally rep
resent student opinion, for were they
not both elected by the students,
and for the express purpose of rep
resenting them?
But the interesting anomaly arises
that in practice these two repre
sentatives of the students sometimes
utter their constituents’ opinions in
different, even discordant, voices,
one of them saying one thing, the
other its opposite. How can one
hold on the same subject two op
posite opinions at the same time?
Any student in the beginners’
course in psychology however (and
we are all psychologists now-a-days)
can readily dispose of this para
dox: Tho student body (or rather
its mind) has a dual personality,
and the student council embodies
one of these personalities, the edi
tor (or the editorial staff) the other.
In the nature of the case both
the personalities are representative;
but, as happens with cases of dual
personality, they are apt to be mut
ually exclusive. Hence the trouble.
Let us consider for a moment how
different the two personalities may
be. In one respect, and that a vital
one, they are, we gather from their
testimony, in fortunate agreement:
they both entertain unexceptionable
principles and a sentiment for pub
lic service. But in other respects
how different!
r. vi auuu.ii vy xv in icuipcituucn iauiy
conservative. It stands for stability,
continuity, tradition; it is ready to
believe in the possible superior wis
dom of the older men, even in those
who are put in authority over us.
Freedom is its watchword, but by
freedom is meant freedom from the
demagogue in student politics who
is clever enough to win students’
votes and ears and to beguile their
minds. It is an advocate of pro
gress, but progress by evolution, not
by revolution or by fits and starts.
IIow different is personality B!
It is constitutionally radical. What
to A is stability to B spells stagna
tion. For tradition is substituted
reform. For precedent innovation,
and for experience enterprise. Free
dom is equally its slogan, but by
freedom is meant freedom from any
authority which does not vindicate
its inherent reasonableness. It is
ardent for progress, progress by re
form; if need bo, by revolution, but
at all costs progress.
Now to personality A personality
B is a suspect ; does not history tell
us again and again how a single
elected public leader becomes a pub
lic misleador, representing not the
thought and real will, but the im
petuous and unthinking elements in
I his constituents, (especially when
he has not to carry out his own pol
icies) ?
To B personality A is equally re
pugnant; does not history teach us
again and again the danger of play
ing for safety, and the decline that
inevitably follows excessive reliance
upon the past?
And now to the practical conclu
sion. If the students’ journal is to
make the best of both worlds (I
mean of both of these very excel
lent personalities), and if it is to
be truly representative of the total
j student mind, its columns should
[ regularly find room for both the
! personalities to express themselves.
; And this it might, do by continuing
■ its present form of editorship, but
t by placing a proportion of its space,
say a weekly page or two, or a daily
column, at the disposal of the stu
dent council, should the council on
any occasion wish to make use of it.
In practice perhaps the council
would make use of its ration only
when the ordinary fare appears to
it unpalatable; when, that is,
the two personalities are found to
clash. But it is only when they have
another opinion that the students
would need to be told what their
other opinion is.
Yours very truly,
H. g". WYATT
Resolution
To the Editor:
Theta Sigma Phi at its meeting,
Tuesday, adopted the following res
olution:
Whereas, Every member of the
Oregon chapter of Theta Sigma Phi,
women’s national honorary jour
nalism fraternity, after seriously
and sincerely studying the points at
issue in the proposed amendment,
(Continued on page three)
I TfeSEVEN
SEERS
Our idea of the dumbest man on
earth is the one •who reads all the
blurbs on the backs of novels and
believes them.
* * •
And speaking of blurbs, here’s
one that varies slightly from the
ordinary.
ADVICE ON THE CAKE OF
> o BABIES
by
A BACHELOR WHO
CAN’T BEAR THEM.
The Crying Need of
Grandfathers-Fathers-And
Expectant Fathers-And Their
Wives
“Why did Bob Hunt stop singing
in the choir?’’
* ‘ Oh, he was absent one night
and someone asked if the organ had
been fixed. ’ ’
* # *
It’s easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows ’round and ’round;
But the girl worth while,
Is the girl who can smile,
When her socks are coming down.
• • •
TODAY’S SIMILE
As useless as a pair of cuff links
on pjajamas.
Gretchen says her boy friend is
the worst tease. He knows the most
naughty songs but he’ll only whis
tle the tunes to her.
• • •
“Is that statue over there Ven
us?”
“You mean the one with the dis
arming look?”
THE DEMOCRATIC WEST
Down in Medford they are now
observing “Better Homes Week.”
The home of the city garbage col
lector is being used as the city’s
model heuse.
On these first warm days
We all feel like d
r
o
P
P
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n
Down on the cool green
Grass and laying there and
K 1 i g v r
o 1 n o e
And o e
y r.
» * •
“Is President Hall in?”
“No. He’s in a conference.”
“Oh; what time does he awaken
in the afternoon?”
Whoever said scientists have no
sense of humour? Haven’t they pre
dicted annually for the past five
years that each one of those years
was going to be without a sum
mer ?
“IT TOOK A HEAD TO COOK
THIS DISH,” SAID THE MAN
AS H E A T E THE CALVES
DRAINS and SCRAMBLED EGGS.
“Is Mencken a poet?”
“Yes, lie writes versus.”
—Pelican.
TODAY’S BULLE TIN
j “Let's try and keep Oregon poli
l tics on the high level which they
I have occupied for so long. ’ ’
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: Bulletin
Phi Chi Theta meeting in room j
LG6 Commerce, 7:15 tonight.
Phi Sigma Kappa announces the
pledging of Wesley Brandhorst, of
Portland.
Dial meets Wednesday night with
Dr. Stuart, at 11 street, 7:30.
Dial meets tonight, Wednesday,
it 7:30 at the home of Dr. Bertha
Stuart.
Sigma Delta Pi—Dr. Warren D.
Smith will give his illustrated lec
ture on the Philippines at 7:30 p.
n. in the geology lecture room. Any- j
ane interested is invited.
Temenid meeting at Craftsman’s j
slub, Wednesday evening, 7:30.
Delegates from O. A. C. will be
present. Social and initiation.
Alpha Delta Sigma will meet
Thursday noon at the Anchorage.
Book lost—A binder’s dummy of
blank paper, of no value to any but
the undersigned, disappeared from
Journalism building between Jan
uary 9 and 16. Was in registered
package addressed to me. Will glad
ly pay $5.00 for its return.—E. W.
Allen.
William H. Bunch
To Teach at Idaho
William H. Bunch, graduate as
sistant in mathematics for the past
two years, has been' appointed as
instructor of mathematics at the
University of Idaho, beginning next
fall.
He will complete the work for his
M. A. degree at commencement this
fear. Mr. Bunch was graduated from
Walla Walla College and took fur
ther work at Pacific University. He
has taught several years in high
school before his work as graduate
assistant here.
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Today,
Friday,
Saturday
He was the East
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RALPH FORBES
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Three musical misses in an Oriental melange
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