©regmt Datli* iimeralfo University of Oregon, Eugene SOL ABRAMSON, Editor EARL W. SLOCUM, Manager EDITORIAL BOARD . Managing Editor Henry Alderman-Con^touting Editor Bertram Jessup . Contributing Editor __ Literary Editor Paul Luy --Feature Editor Bay Nash Florence Jones News and Editor Phones, 665 DAY EDITORS: Beatrice Harden, Genevieve Morgan, Minnie Fisher, Barbara Blythe, Bill Haggerty. Alternates: Flossie Radabaugh, Grace hisher. NIGHT EDITORS: Bob Hall, Supervisor; Wayne Morgaii, Jack Coolidge, John Nance, Henry Lumpee, Leonard Delano, Addison Brockman. . BPORTS STAFF: Jack O’Meara, Assistant Sporta Editor; Dick Syring, Art Schoeni, Joe Pigney. FEATURE WRITERS: Donald Johnston, John Butler, I.aWanda Fenlason. UPPER NEWS STAFF: Jane Epley, Alice Kraeft. Edith Dodge, Bob Galloway. NEWS STAFF: Grace Taylor, Herbert Lundy, Marian Sten, Dorothy B?J[eTr’ R^uneV; Betty Schultze France* Cherry Ma'ga^ Long Mary Mcl^Margaret Duke Ruth Newman, Miriam Shepard, Lucile Carroll, Eva Hensiey, Margaret Clark, John Allen, Grayce Nelson, Dorothy *®le*"?h Edwards, Walter Coover, Amos Burg, Betty Hagen, Leola Ball, Dan C e ey, Newton. _____ business staff Milton George .. Herbert Lewis .. Joe Neil . Larry 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 Charles Reed, Bob Moore, Bill Hammond. Office Administration: Ruth Field, Emily W Roderick LaFollette, Maurine Lombard, Oliver Brown. illiame, Lucielle George. K*ri?s.rr-vi.‘£ Business office phone, 1896. ___—_ Day Editor This Issue— Barbara Blythe Assistant— Mary McLean Night Editor This Issue— John Nance ' Unsigned comment in this column.ia written by the editor. Full responsibility b auumed by the editor for all editorial opinion. ___ Generally true disputants are like true sportsmen, whole delight is in the pursuit; and a disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.—Pope. Conscripts in Time of Peace NOTHING," writes a corres -LN pondent, “could ho more subversive to the true aims of edu cation than the inculcation of the military mind.’’ So it seems, yet what of these ed ucationalists who damn Prussian ism ip the abstract but nurture it, as Americanism, in the concrete? As our communicant writes: “Along with a denunciation of] •war . . . We are conducting an or ganization to pass on the habit of militarism—through means of com pulsion! ’ ’ The student is required to spend two years learning how to fight the next. war. The universities see to that. Whether or not he spends any time learning how to prevent the next, war doesn’t matter. “Educa tion “ in general takes care of that, says the educator. Education—that piece of modern mythology—work ing somehow and anyhow, is always the answer. There is much more in these words from Shailer Mathews: “As far as military preparation it concerned, military training in schools is of no real value; but as developing a bent of mind, an ac eustoinedness to military thinking and a respect for war it is liable to be a psychological suggestion which will make sanity and justice more difficult in all dealings of fu ture public opinion with interna tional relations.” This view is gaining somo notice. Many persons have ventured the be lief that a positive psychology may be effective in solving the war problem. An active preparation for peace, one thnt omits conscript armies between wars, may perhaps be the answer. Surely it can stand up in the face of the miserable failnre of all the militarism of the past. Perhaps even the educational ists will give it attention if it is forced upon their notice. There are many ways, whereby the university student may fulfill his sense of obligation to his country. Those who are fighting peace-time conscription are pioneers in a new field of devoted patriotism. With the courage of their convictions firmly established, they have noth ing to fear, not even the taunts of those — educationalists and 'mili tarists alike—who always find it convenient to straddle the issue by questioning the motives of the op position. The Kmerald had hoped this year to make articulate the opinions of those students who object to com pulsion in military training, in the belief that Oregon might ally itself with the growing list of universities that have placed military training on an optional basis. However, the Kmerald's program has been dis turbed to such an extent that an J*L, Commun f ications . /is.Aa _ Preparation To the Editor: The proposal or rather the nomi nation of Phil Bergh as candidate for the office of Editor of the Enter aid reminds me of the rich man who raises a son and teaches him how to do everything except manage the work which his father expects him editorial campaign has been impos sible. We hope those who would have given support to such a movement will not remain silent. They may find encouragement in the vote taken on the question last year, in which the students voted about three to one for optional as opposed to compulsory military. The pro portion probably has not changed. It may be taken, we believe, as sufficient assurance that an organ ized movement against conscription in time of peace would find support among the students. As for the educationalists who must finally decide the matter if it is made an issue—who can say? At least we can hope that student opin ion carries some weight. The Soul Of a Republic A PEOPLE expresses its temper and its disposition in many a curious and often unsuspected way. That the national and racial soul does somehow get into the major social activities and products has| become a commonplace principle to j students of civilizations. By their houses you shall know them is a fully demonstrated corollary of the ancient postulate. The possibilities of an ago appear in tho works of its geniuses; its ac tual, breathing spirit in its table talk and incidental habits. An op posite illustration and a timoly one •may be discovered in considered the I present day national attitude to I wards education. Exactly what does the common American mind stnvo for in its educational policy1? At first blush ono would be disposed to point to the high and lofty ideals of scholarship voiced in the most numerous dissertations and orations of the educational seers. But it is not so. If you would know the directing spirit of Ameri can education, go, not to the droam ing laboring prophets, nor to fac ulty and studont reformers, ibut to your local stationer. This is the sea son whon you will find exhibited graduation felicitation cards. Go to your card-seller, study a representa tive lot with special attention to the sentiments expressed and you will have learned the true American edu cational attitude. You will discover such gems as these, unmistakable in their common import: The study days belong to the past. But the knowledge you’ve gained will always last. May you meet with success, etc. or Text-books finished, lessons learned or As you leave the walls of knowledge —ad nauseum. The common theme is something like this: Now that you aro educat ed, by dint of long and distasteful j labor, you will of eourso chuck away your books with a joyous whoop and proceed to pile up money and live happy ever after. Hooray for educa tion! It costs a lot and it’s hard to get; but when you once have it, it pays good dividends. On to success! This is the working soul of Ameri can education. If you don’t believe it go down and consider the cards Better yet, wait till you get youi own, private collection—pretty soot I now.—B. J. to step into when he becomes of ago, be it steel mills or candy fac tory. In the same way, Bergh has spent his four years in college, dribbling in all student activities, being a sucessful man about the campus, a good politician, a good student, and a good fellow. But, is that any rea son whey he should be handed a position for which he has had no preparation, no practical experi ! once, nor, up to this time, shown 1 any special interest in except as a 1 colleague of the administrative "powers that be" in an attempt to “gag” the paper! When the "plums" are to be handed out, Bergh is present. Like the rich man’s son, he wants to re place those who have spent years in training for this sort of work, regardless of the fact that they could execute the office to better advantage. The result of an Emerald headed by Bergh would be a figure-head whose work would have to be done by those who really know their bus iness. Why not give them the oppor tunity of getting the credit for this work! MARGARET CLARK. Proclamation To the editor: We, the undersigned, members of the Oregon Daily Emerald staff Believing that previous service on the Emerald, and experience and knowledge in newspaper work are requirements that must be fulfilled by anyone who aspires to leader ship of the Emerald, and Believing that one who has not worked on the Emerald or had actu al and sufficient newspaper exper ience is unfitted to be editor and in seeking that position is unfair to the staff members and to the associ ated students, because of incompe tence, Now, therefore: we the under signed members of the Emerald staff hereby subscribe to the truths above stated. (Signed) Emerald position) Bob Galloway . Day editor Dan Cheney . News staff Arthur Schoeni . Sports staff LaWanda Fenlason .. Feature writer Lempi Kiviaho . Copy reader Chalmers Nooe . Copy reader Walter J. Coover . Day editor Marion Sten . News staff Kenneth Wilshire .. Copy reader Bess Duke . News staff Mary C. Benton . Special writer Edith Dodge . Upper news staff Paul Luy . Columnist Amos Burg . News staff Minnie M. Fisher . Day editor Grace A. Fisher . Day editor Bertram Jessup, Contributing editor William Haggerty . Day editor Henry Alderman, contributing ed. Kobert T, Hall, Chief night editor Beatrice Harden . Day editor Eva Nealon . News staff Renee Grayce Nelson, News staff i Margaret Long . News staff Joe Sweyd . Feature writer Cleta McKennon . News staff Eleanor Edwards . News staff Hermione mith . Copy reader C. Gene vie vo Morgan, Day editor Flossie Kadabaugh, Advertising stan Dot Baker . News staff Mary McLean . News staff Margaret Hensley . News staff Ruth E. Corey Feature writer Barbara Blythe . Day editor Frances Cherry . News staff Betty Schultze . News staff Betty Hagen . News staff Lucile Carroll . News staff Ruth Newton . News staff \\r< Brown . News staff A. Brockman . Night editor Joe R. Noil, Advertising manager John Allen . News staff R. J. Moore Jr., Advertising staff Miriam Shepard . News staff Jack O’Meara, Asst. Sports editor Margaret Clark . Society editor Jauo Dudley Epley, Upper news staff Donald Johnston . Feature writer Henry Lumpeo . Night editor Jack Coolidge . Night editor John Nance . Night editor Herb Lundy . News staff Richard II. Syring . Sports staff Etha Jeanne Clark . Copy reader Knowing the Work To the Editor: In this second choosing of an edi tor for the Emerald, there arises a situation which involves njore than the success of a candidate; it in volves the success of the Emerald itself for next year. Two men are running for the po sition. Both, so far as intelligence is concerned, are highly qualified. But, one lias a back ground in news paper work; tho other has absolute ly none. No more could a graduate of the school of architecture or of law go down and take over the editing of the Eugene Guard or of the Port land Oregonian, no more could a Major in the school of journalism go in and competently design a building, than a man with absolute ly no foundation come in and suc I cossfully edit the Emerald—al though it does not even aim to eom ipete with the lluard or the Orego nian. The Emerald editorship is open to any student in the University—it should he. But, if a man desires to aspire to this position of leadership of the Emerald, then he should, for the sake of the associated students, he sufficiently interested to work on the staff at least long enough to recognize news when he sees it, he able to evaluate stories, to know something of the workings of the whole. And appointment to the staff does not require enrollment in the department; it is open to anyone in the University. We never choose for president of the student body a man who has not participated in activities demand ing executive ability, so that he may have proven himself before hand. Should we choose as editor of our newspaper a man who has never even been on the lower news staff! And so, it is not a question of per sonality or intelligence that should Kt SEVEN „ SEERS Things don’t always turn out the way they are supposed to. In several writing courses I’ve taken the pro fessor has gone to no end of trou ble to explain the importance of clean and well prepared copy. Well, that may be all right but when I was a freshman, and even in my sophomore year, I believed that this point was as important as the con tent itself, but I’ve changed my mind. vr * * Some time ago Paul Tracey wrote an article and decided to experi ment a little with the publishers. He made a carbon copy of the said article, and thinking he would just as soon receive the rejection slips all at once, he sent the carbon to Dial and the original to the Atlan tic. Shortly the original was fired back with the polite “We are sor ry, but - - - as Paul says he ex pected. But the surprise came later when he received a letter saying that the article had been accepted by Dial. ’The smeary carbon copy! Things are like that. “Hammer and Coffin is the only humorous society on the campus, is it not?" “Oh no. Both Mortar Board and Friars are here." • * • I realize that campus confection ers and owners of eating houses have a limited season, but gosh wTlien I paid twenty five cents for a piece of apple pie with cheese at the C. S. I. the other day I sure felt like I was being robbed. —E. N. * * * The professor with the shiny blue serge suit says that when a driver runs over the same pedestrian twice it’s a sign pedestrians are getting scarce. • • • The Mississippi might as well quit flooding now. This fellow Lind bergh has taken all the first page space. • • • Oregon won the ball game yester day. Didn’t they let the Aggies bat? THEY CALL THE BABY AR CHIE ’THOUGH HIS FATHER HAS FLAT FEET. Miss Dorothy Mielke, Portland’s new queen weighs about 115 pounds. —Eugene Guard. A- conservative es timate, I’d say. • * * Tom Montgomery says if they would only have Junior Week-end every week-end, it wouldn’t take long to pay for the Fine Arts build ing. lie lost two bucks while hav ing his lienjl dipped in the senior fountain. He couldn’t play At blind man’s bluff; He wasn’t blind And he couldn’t bluff. • • • MADDENING MOMENTS When out to dinner, scratching a match under the table and then set ting fire to the table cloth getting it out. Ben Dover thinks it can’t be so near the end of the term after all. It’s just as hard as ever to get Life or Judge at the library. • • • CO-ED COUNCIL Dear Aunt Eeerali, My boy friend always lias a flask in liis hip pocket. Do you think there is anything wrong about it? Upset. Dear Upset, If it is true that, as you say, he ALWAYS has it in his hip pocket, then there can be nothing wrong about it except that it must be empty. Your Aunt Seerah. WE RESPECT THE MEN AT THE HEATING PLANT —THEY ARE GRATE MEN. Freshman Crew May Gtt East With Huskies UNIVERSITY OP WASHING TON, Seattle—(PIP)—A drive has been advocated to send the fresh man crew to Poughkeepsie along with tho varsity and junior varsity men. The varsity crew has been shaken up considerably by Coach Callow since the California race. The pres ent combination seems to be as powerful as the last year champions, judging from their speedy time trials. Co-eds to Present Act For Aid Flood Benefits UNIVERSITY OP WASHING TON, cattle—(PIP)—A number of the acts from the Junior Girls’ Vaudeville which was successfully presented at Meany hall last week, will turn from campus theatricals to charity. They are planning a super-production to offer the public at the Metropolitan theater for the benefit of Mississippi flood sufferers. [CAMPU/ ' jBnllettij Freshman track men report in uniform at Hayward field Thursday at 4:15 p. m. for pictures. Theta Sigma Phi—Regular meet ing at Anchorage Tuesday noon. Important. Sigma Delta Chi meets today noon at the Anchorage. Important. Thesis Tells Origin Of Installment Plan In Days of Caesar Back in the days of Julius Caesar, Crassus, a prominent Roman realtor, built many houses outside the walls of Rome. He introduced the policy of selling them on the installment plan, and the system proved so popular that in a few years he had built up an enormous fortune. He was a pioneer in one of the most important phases of modern busi ness—installment selling—aecoidy ing to Harold Elkington, a graduate assistant in the school of business administration, who has written his thesis on “Installment Selling.” “Installment selling has been practiced in the United States for more than fifty years,” Mr. Elking ton said, “but there Was compara tively little growth of the system until it was introduced in the auto mobile industry about 1915. The greatest expansion of the business came in the years 1920-1926.” Automobiles are by far the most important article sold on the install ment plan, Mr. Elkington said. They make up a much larger proportion of the installment debt at the pres ent time than do all the other com modities combined. “It is rather intresting to note,” he continued, “that 92 per cent of the autos, 75 per cent of the washing machines, 80 per cent of the phonographs, 65 per cent of the vacuum cleaners, 40 per cent of the pianos, 25 per cent of the jewelry, and the greater part of the radios and electric re frigerators are now sold on the in stallment plan.” It is yet impossible to determine whether or not installment selling is economically sound, Mr. Elking ton said, but the advantages seem to outweigh the disadvantages. “All figures and estimates collect ed on the subject,” he said, “point to the conclusion that installment selling is not only here to stay but that it is markedly on the increase in volume of sales.” Theaters J __ ' COLONIAL: Today: Norma Tal made and Eugene O’Brien in one of the best pictures they ever made, “The Only Woman.” This picture has a scene made at sea, showing one of the best storms that has ever been taken in a movie. Mack Sen nett Comedy, “From Hoboken to Hollywood,” Pathe Review and In ternational news. Election Announcement Phi Theta Upsilon announces the election of: Mrs. Virginia Judy Esterly, Hazel Prutsman, honorary members; Ruth Burcham, Lily DeBernardi, Mildred Lowden, May Moore, Lillian Vail, Helen Webster, Constance Weinman, Allison Wilder, Emmabell Woodworth. Student Soldiers Plan Sham Battle Saturday UNIVERSITY OF WASHING TON, Seattle—(PIP)—The men of the R. 0. T. C. will stage a sham battle on their way to an all day encampment at Sand Point air base next Saturday. One company will defend a hill with machine guns and a smoke screen, while the other companies attack them. At the air base the men will en joy an air carnival put on by ex pert aviators. For Travel information Phone 2200 SOUTHERN PACIFIC L.L. GRAHAM 1 F.G. 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