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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1927)
©tegmt ®atli| $mcralb University of Oregon, Eugene SOL ABRAMSON, Editor EARL W. SLOCUM, Manager EDITORIAL BOARD Managing Editor .. Literary Editor Ray Nash --— Florence Jones_.... Henry Alderman ___Contributing Editor Bertram Jessup .. Contributing Editor Paul Luy.. Feature Editor News and Editor Phones, 655 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, Leonard Delano. SPORTS STAFF: Jack O’Meara, Assistant Sports Editor; Dick Syring, Art Schoeni, Joe Pigney. ^FEATURE WRITERS: Donald Johnston, John Butler, LaWanda Fenlason. UPPER NEWS STAFF: Jane Epley, Alice Kraeft, Edith Dodge, Bob Galloway. NEWS STAFF: Grace Taylor. Herbert Lundy, Marian Sten, Dorothy Baker, Kenneth Rodunei, 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. BUSINESS staff Milton George .. Herbert Lewis .. Joe Neil . Lorry Thielen ... Ruth Street - . Associate Manager _ Advertising Manager . Advertising Manager .. Foreign Advertising Mgr. . Advertising Manager Francis McKenna . Circulation Manager Ed Bissell . Ass’t Circulation Mgr. Wilbur Shannon . Circulation Ass’t Alice McGrath . Specialty Advertising Advertising Assistants: Flossie Radabaugh, Roderick LaFoIIette, Maurine Lombard, Charles Reed, Bob Moore, Bill Hammond, Oliver Brown. Office Administration: Ruth Field, Emily Williams, Lucielie George. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during the college year. Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as sccond-clasB matter. Subscription rates. $2.60 per year. Adver tising rates upon application. Residence phone, editor, 2293-L; manager, 1320. Business office phone, 1895. Day Editor This Issue— Bill Haggerty. Night Editor This Issue— Henry Lumpee. Unsigned comment in this column is written by the editor. Full responsibility Is assumed by the editor for all editorial opinion. LET not the freedom of in quiry be shackled. If it shakes for a time the belief that is rested only on prejudice, it finally settles it on the broader aiul more solid basis of convic tion.—II. K. White. That’s Where the Money Goes WE are not at all certain that a communicant who writes concerning the A. S. IJ. O. finan cial report has correctly interpreted that statement; neither are we cer tain of the contrary. Which in it self is perhaps sufficient reason why a moro detailed acounting should be forthcoming. If the financial statement may be taken as an indicator of the in terests of a university student body (and it cannot be interpreted oth erwise) there is little cause for pride, disregarding, even, a deficit of moro than $3,000. The financial statement says just one thing: athletics, and says it in more ways than wo over know woro possible. The capital outlay in crease that brought on tho deficit was duo to the same cause. It be comes evident that athletics are not self-supporting, a condition that wo have never heard mentioned, al though tho opposite is one of the first arguments offered in dofenso of large-scalo intercollegiate sports. The income on athletics is shown as $74,000 and the expenditure as $84,000. Here is a deficit of about $10,000. In addition, several thou sand dollars more are listed under various headings, though appertain ing to the samo matter. We should like to see an itemized statement explaining tho disposition of tho $84,000, not to mention de tails on other sums bulked under vague headings. We cannot imagine why a student body of approximate ly 3,000 invests $84,000 for “ath letics” and soveral thousand dol lars more for equipping pavilions, sanding fields and constructing bleachers. Doesn’t this seem to lend weight to the oft-denied charges of big business athletics! Totalled, the outlay for this one interest (admit tedly the main interest) of some 3,000 students is more than $100,000. Compare this sum, or contrast it, with expenditures of loss than $6,000 for music and $2,000 for lec tures and forensics. Tho Webfoot, on which tho A. S. IT. O. should have been willing to lose a goodly sum this year, in*order that that publication might have gotten a ,Commun ications Whore Is It? To the Editor: From the iinauc.ini statement of the A. 8. U. O. as appeared in the Emerald of May IS, t have com puted tlte total cost of A. 8. lT. O. athletics at $103,35(5.70. Noticing the discrepancy of $29, 007.41 between income and expenses, I wonder if my methods are wrong or if I have wrongly interpreted the report. Adding the expenditures listed under McArthur Court, Athletic Field, Athletics, Salaries, I have $98,9(57.41. Adding all other ex- j penses, to find the percentage of this sum to the total expenditures of the A. S. U. O., 1 determined the amount of administration expenses ! which athletics should bear. This sum brought these expenses to $103, 356.70. Your report gives no indication as to which department should be assigned the sums listed under un- 1 good start, has had to get along on some $1800, though it is showing a profit. This concentration of resources on one side is not a healthy situa tion. At the risk of speaking here sy we suggest that a good sized por tion of the money might bo turned, with more profit to the greater num ber of students, to the development of interests more concerned with the mental life of the University. The Emerald does not mean to suggest or even insinuate that there have been irregularities in the dis position of student funds, but a de tailed accounting might make it bet ter evident just where the mloney is going. The mass figures indicate that we are over-developed on one side. Now let us have moro light, so we may see the reason for this intolerable situation and perhaps develop a remedy. ‘The Revolt Of Asia9 THESE are trying times for those who would understand the significance of the happenings in China. Is the conflict merely a civil war, or does it mark an awakening of the East to self-realization? If the latter, what will be the out come? Will Asia rise against the West? Aro we on the eve of a world conflict? Woefully few observers have been able to answer these questions with authority. One of tho few observers who is credited with understanding the situation is Josef Washington Hall, who will speak at the assem bly today on “The Revolt of Asia. ’ ’ Mr. TIall foresees tho end of the white man’s domination of the world; tho western empires in Asia are slipping, ho says. For this he blames the white man, who taught the East the tools and methods of war and then brought on trouble through greed and prejudice, lie sees an awakening, not only in China, but throughout Asia; a cul tural revolt that cannot bo put down. America, he says, is danger ously noar assuming the white man’s burden which is slipping off Brit ain’s worn shoulders, yet this same Amoriea holds tlio solution to tho problem. Mr. Hall’s analysis of the situa tion will be welcomed by those who are trying to road beyond the nows reports. Wo in America who aro talking patriotically of defend ing concessions and property and lives know only half the story. Mr. Hall, we hope, will supply the other half. paid liabilities, and Notes Payable,! and McArthur Court. Can you assist me in locating the $29,007.41? I stand to be corrected. Miss Burgess to Attend Celebration at Louvain Miss Julia Burgess, professor e English at the University of Orego since 1907, has accepted tho dcsij nation of official representative o the University to the fifth centenar anniversary of the University o l.ouvain, Louvain, Belgium. Mis Burgess is on leave of absence, mal iag a tour of Europe and the Nea East, and although she had intende to return to the United States prio to June 28, she will re-arrange he itinerary in order that she may b present at the historical celebratior An interesting program has bee planned for the Louvain celebration which will take place June 28 an 29, and elaborate French document have Invited universities from al over the world to assist at the an niversarv. “What cleans ivory?” “Tr.v a shampoo.”—Athenaeum (West Virginia). TfiSEVEN } SEERS I If you are a book buyer, or If you | are even influenced by some one j else’s say-so, I’d like to suggest j “The Delectable Mountains” by', Struthers Burt. Also, Langston; Hughes has published another book j of verse, “Fine Clothes for the ■ Jew,” which has the same melan choly tone as “The Weary Bluee” which came out last spring. Bing Lardner, H. L. Mencken’s model short story writer, doesn’t seem to be in too good favor here. The li brary has not bothered to purchase ! his latest book. * * * The trouble with some of these linen knickers, (or is it some of these laundries) is that often a per fectly good pair of plus fours turns out to be a pair of minus twos after the first laundering. • • • Let poets sing their lilting songs And gaily smite the lyre, Give me the man who whistles when He changes the fourth fiat tire. E. D. asks if we knew that the house mothers get together almost every day to drink near beer and eat pretzels. No, Edith, we did not know it, however, we suspect that they must have seen some of the professors drinking tea and eating chocolate brownies, and that would surely drive anyone to drink ing n. b. and eating p. BUGHOUSE SIMILE Nicer than a day in May. * <r • Gretchen wonders what the Uni versity does with all the hours it takes away from its students. • • * MADDENING MOMENTS: Dropping a bottle of hair tonic on a cement sidewalk on way home from drugstore and trying to make people think it’s hair tonic. • • • Alpha: “Are your folks coming down for Junior Week-end?” Phi: “No, father is warden at an asylum and the doctor says he must have a change.” * * * Divorced are Mr. And Mrs. Fraser; You can’t open cans With a safety razor! • • • CO-ED COUNCIL Dear Aunt Seerah, On rainy days I always get my feet wet going to classes. What can I do about it, aunt Seerah? A1 Wet Dear A1 Wet, I would advise wearing shoes or else not going to classes. Your Aunt Seerah • • • Sigma: “How, can you tell a girl with false teeth?” Chi: “Sarao way you’d tel’ one that didn’t have false teeth.” A couple of Phi Delts got into a light with the “bouncer” at the circus night before last. Wonder if they had carried water for elephants and then were refused admission. Quite a cook is Sarah Hankie; Dropped a biscuit And broke her ankle. HE WHO HESITATES IS LOST. THEN WE SAW A GUY LOST UP BY THE PI PHI HOUSE LAST NIGHT. I The professor with the shiny blue I serge suit thinks that term papers ! are too expensive so he isn’t giving any this spring. Said a Chi Psi i sophomore had to pay fifteen dollars , for papers for just two courses last ; term. “Oh, well, it’s always nice to leave something for the wife and children,” said the big hearted fath er as he left half a bowl of soup. One good thing about the trend in modern education is that the hard working student who comes to col lege to get an education is not worn oujt with competition.—Intercolle giate Press. Here's another explanation for the current revolutionary unpleas antness in China. It seems there j were 50 American jazz bands in 1 Shanghai.—Stanford Daily. Four-year-old boy last week shot his mother. So he was put to bed that night without his gin.—Ohio State Lantern. [CAMPUS ! Bulletin* Agora meets tonight at 7:30, in Woman’s building. Houses to work on prom decora tions: Thursday afternoon, Phi Gamma Delta, Psi Kappa, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Friday afternoon, Alpha Tau Omega, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Sigma Kappa, Sigma Chi, Sigma Phi Epsilon and Beta Theta Pi. Meeting today at noon of the Junior Week-end directorate at the College Side Inn. Independent Men’s meeting to night, 7:00 p. m. at the Y. M. C. A. hut. Large attendance wanted for reading of the proposed constitution and election of officers for next year. Phi Chi Theta will hold a meet ing tonight at 7:15 in room 106 of the Commerce building. Very important meeting of the senior women today at five in 110 Johnson. Both glee clubs rehearse today at 5 p. m. at the school of music. Important Order of the “O” meet ing Thursday morning at 11 o’clock. “All members are requested to be present”—Fred West. Election of officers will take place. Alpha Delta Sigma meets today noon at the Anchorage. Calvin Horn will give a report on the national convention at Columbia. Election of officers for the coming year will take place. All members must be present. Oregon Knights: Important meet ing tonight at 7:30 in the Admin istration building. All knights must be present including all sophomores. Further plans for Junior week-end will be discussed. OTTAWA, Kans.—(IP)—In a poll of the undergraduates at Ot tawa university here, it was dis covered that the majority of the students do not object so much to compulsory chapel as they do to the sort of chapel programs to which they are forced to listen. Dissatis faction with the present system was almost unanimous among the stu dents. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — (IP) — President Lowell, of Harvard uni versity, has requested the resigna tion of four policemen of the Cam bridge force for “unnecessary bru DON’T MISS THIS BUT BE SURE YOU— LAST TIME TODAY REX tality” in connection with the stu dent “riot” of February, as a re sult of which a number of Harvard students were arrested, tried and fined for disorderly conduct. The Harvard Crimson has wel comed the president’s request as an indication that “the other side will now be brought into the light of investigation.” PROVIDENCE, R. I—(IP)—On the 109th anniversary of the rec ognition by the Rhode Island legis lature of the famous Light Infantry Regiment of Rhode Island, that reg iment and Brown university will unite in unveiling, a tablet in Uni versity hall to the memory of Na thanial Greene, of Revolutionary fame. AMHERST, Mass—(IP)—Forty professors and administrators, or about three-fourths of the faculty at Amherst college have joined in petitioning Governor Fuller, of Massachusetts, to reopen the Sacco Vanzetti case. It is understood that a number of faculty members at both Mount Holyoke and Smith col leges have done likewise. The fellow who thinks he is the whole cheese invariably turns out to be a piece of it.—Wooster Voice. You’d Be Surprised At the quick service and good results you get by sending your laundry to us. t Domestic Laundry Phone 252 Visitors Their Impressions Junior Week-end will bring visitors from all parts of the state. Some of them will be guests on whom you wish to make a favorable impression. A vase of flowers here and there throughout the house lends a surprisingly good effect to the atmosphere of hospitality. University Florists 598 13th Etst Don’t Forget to Remember— —that graduation is an important occasion. Your gift should be individual and lasting. There’s variety at the— Aladdin Gift Shop “Tasteful Gifts for University People” iifiiJfiiifijniJfiUfiiJriiJfiiifTJiiJrnJfTiJfiijiTiifiiJriiinir May 19, 1927. Dear friends: Personally I never bought an engagement Ting in my life. 1 was on the verge of buyin ’ one one time but she changed her mind. Which is a woman’s privilege I s’pose. But the average girl wears only one engagement ring in her whole life. There are exceptions to that rule, but I'm talk ing about the average. That’s why it's important to select that engagement diamond with care. You’ll have to admit that my argument’s good. So, I’d advise any young man to see the beautiful assort ment of “sparklers” here at the store and talk the matter over with Mr. Skeie. He knows diamonds. TICK. If it comes from Skeie's it must be good 927 Willamette—Phone 411 Assembly Speaker’s New Book at Library “The Revolt of Asia,” by Upton Close, who will be the speaker at assembly today, has just been re ceived at the library. The book deals with the end of the white man’s world dominance and its mes sage is based on personal experi ences buttressed with facts. His book is “a simple story writ ten after twenty thousand miles of investigation in every country from Japan to Palestine and a back ground of ten years’ intimate asso ciation with men and movements in Pacific Asia, of how one-half the world, gradually brought into sub servience by the other half during the past four hundred years, has awakened to its shame and risen to take its destiny in its own hands.n ST. BONA VENTURE, N. Y.— (IP)—The New York Giants have consented to play against the St. Bonaventure baseball team at Al legany on June 1, it was announced here last week. John McGraw, man ager of the New York team, is a St. Bonaventure college alumnus. K. U.’s king of pessimists is the student who lamented that he never got anything for his hospital fee.— University Daily Kansan. 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