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©regmt Jlailg ^tnetald University of Oregon, Eugene ■t ---- 1 —— EARL W. SLOCUM, Manager SOL ABRAMSON, Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Bar Naah_Managing Editor Florence Jones _ Literary Editor Henry Alderman_Contributing: Editor Bertram Jessup . Contributing Editor Paul Luy_Feature Editor News and Editor Phones, 655 J3AY EDITORS: Beatrice Harden, Genevieve Morgan, Minnie Fiaher, Barbara Blythe, Bill Haggerty. Alternates: Flossie Radabaugh, Grace Fisher. NIGHT EDITORS: Bob Hall, Supervisor; Wayne Morgan, Jack Coolidge, John Nance, Henry Lumpee, Leonard Delano, Addison Brockman. 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 Boduner 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 . Associate ManagerFrancis McKenna . Circulation Manager Herbert Lewis . Advertising Manager Ed Bissell . Ass’t Circulation Mgr. Joe Neil --• Advertising Manager Wi,bur shannon ..— Circulation Ass’t ^.°.re Advertising8 Manager Alice McGrath .. Specialty Advertising Advertising Assistants: Flossie Radabaugh Roderick LaFollette, Maurine Lombard, Charles Reed. Bob Moore, Bill Hammond, Oliver Brown. Office Administration: Ruth Field, Emily Williams. Lucielle George._ The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of the of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during the StereyLr Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoff.ee S^genf^ Oregon as second-class matter. Subscription rates, *2.50 per year. Adver SinT rates upon’ application. Residence phone, editor, 2293-L; manager, 1320. Bnsiness office phone, 1895. _______ Day Editor This Issue—Bill Haggerty. / Assistant—Cleta McKennon Night Editor This Issue—Henry Lumpee. * Unsigned comment in this column is written by the editor. Full responsibility la assumed by the editor for all editorial opinion._ TO hint who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.— Hegel. Howe About The Emerald WE arc flattered more than words can say that Professor Howe should have made the Emer ald his topic for an hour’s lecture in an English literature class. From Carlyle to the daily was a short step, in all probability, but we had hardly expected the proof to come from the sage of Villard hall. Had Mr. Howe kept his remarks within the realm of fact, or oven probability, we would have no rea son for commenting on his outburst. We can readily understand why he, as one of the patron saints of the established order, might object to matters of Emerald editorial policy. But, unfortunately, Professor Ilowe, the scholar, gave way to Mr. Howe, high pontiff of the pigskin; and Mr. Ilowe, just as anyone who dod ges issues and overlooks facts, tried to raise a smoke-screen by questioning the integrity and sin cerity of those witli whom he dis^j agrees. We must explain to our readers that in interpreting Mr. Howe’s re marks they should relate everything he said to athletics, football in par ticular. This suggestion is made af ter a personal interview with the professor of English, who explained, for instance, that in charging lack of originality and weakness to edi torial ideas he was referring spe cifically to Emerald discussion of matters athletic. Now, wo would be tlio lust pei sons to claim tlio discovery of over emphasis in athletics. No moio would Mr. Howe claim to have been the first to discover that Words worth wrote poetry, fetill to sa>, now, that Wordsworth wrote poetry would be repeating a truism. The same applies to overemphasis of athletics, ('allege editors will con tinue to write of the same matter for years to come, most likely, just as classes will continue to study Wordsworth. As far as exploding the ideas go, wo wish Professor Howe would give us the benefit of his wisdom. A statement always carries much more weight when it says, rather than suggests. He mentions Emerald insinuations that athletics here are not clean. Isn’t the guardian angel of sport laud readiijg something into general discussions of athletics in the ab stract f Tile Emerald has never sug gested or intimated that there lias been any dishonesty in athletics, and we challenge proof to the contrary. Had the Emerald had proof or rea son to believe that conditions were otherwise, it would have spoken op enly. • • • If the Emerald has “slandered” the University, then telling the truth is slander. We know very well that we would be far more popular if we filled our columns with praise for everything on the campus, but we prefer to tell tile truth. Truth telling should be more popular. “If we don’t pay the captain of the football team, why should we pay the editor of the Kmeraldt’ ’ asks Mr. Howe referring to editors who “betray the trust” of the stud ent body. He gave tho assurance that this referred not to a particular Emerald administration. Howe nice! Not considering the remarks as per sonal, then, we wonder just how editors break faith. • • • | It is not surprising to learn that -the Emerald has not “represented” student opinion; we dou’t now. We have never been certain of the na ture of student opinion, never huv ing had the benefit of Mr. Howe’s barometrical expertness. He, how ever, has done no better than we. As a voting member of the execu tive council he has not hesitated, so far as we have observed, to help shove through any project, student opinion pro or con notwithstand ing. He is not a student represen tative, it is true, but we are sur prised that his altruism did not force him to act as the student champion. The Emerald has made no claims of representing student opinion. Our conception of a newspaper is an organ that tries to lead, instead of following, and we have made every effort to live up to that standard. In so doing it has been oftimes im possible to think the thoughts that Mr. Howe deemed best for us. For this wo make no apology. • • • There is only one way to charac terize the charge that the student committee acted as a tool for the faculty. That statement is absolute ly false. The student-committee members make their view clear in today’s communication column. We hope the members of the faculty committee, now that their colleague Mr. Howe has confessed intellectual chicanery, will see fit to make known the truth. • • • Before Professor Howe decides to deliver any further lectures on kin dred topics he should be good enough to invite those whom he plans to denounce, and give them opportunity to nail his arguments as they are uttered. | An Effort \ At Amends _ \ regret the bad-tempered al lusions that appeared in yes terday’s funny column. We realize that they should not have been printed. The Seven Seers have al ways boen allowed a considerable degree of editorial freedom and the column has, by and large, justified the license. The Seven shall con tinue to exercise it. Naturally, they make mistakes now and then. Ev eryone does. Professional writers of satire are sometimes prone to mis-1 judge the effect of their writing and overstep the limits of their ve hicle. V squib that seems very clever and telling in the evening may ap pear malicious and boorish the next morning; and the author may be in for many a bud minute whenever he thinks of it afterward. We realize that no apology can really take the sting completely out. of an unkindness. Therefore, wro simply declare that we shall try to prevent the occurrence of anything of tho sort in the future. Something JSetv In Honoraries _ 13 ECENT Phi Beta Kappa elec-! -*• *-1ions occasion the revelation of a new spirit growing within the or ganization. No longer is the honor ary society being considered purely as a reward for meritorious accom plishment by the student in college. It is now beginning to hold promise of much future good. Heretofore, honorary societies as a whole have rewarded with mem- ■ bership individuals who have aehiev-1 ed an unusual degree of academic success. There, however, the socie-j ties have stopped. Nothing more has been required from their members. | Now, however, there is a senti-i meat toward fostering activity even, after college achievement is a thing of the past. Realization of the im mense good that might come from programs encouraging scholastic re search or other forms of active serv ice is becoming more and more evi dent. There is little doubt but that such a policy would not only prove of positive value but would also kill effectively any accusation of stagnation.—H. A. 'HE editorial election is over and this paper makes no pre tense that it is not heartily glad of the outcome. At the same time it is realized that the defeated candi date is a capable man and one who has the courage of his convictions. In spite of the fact that his opin ions and viewpoint on many campus matters are directly opposed to those advanced by the Emerald, we would have had no valid reason for oppos ing his candidacy if he had hereto fore shown himself to ibe really in terested in newspaper work. As mat ters stood, however, it was felt that there was no choice between a man who wanted a job because of a deep personal interest in the work and one who totally lacked that inter est.—H. A. No More Politics Commim Colons How Now, Mr. Howe? To the Students: Professor H. C. Howe, during a class discourse, (reported else where in this day’s Emerald) inci dentally made the following con fession calculated to cast contempt upon the undersigned members of the recent independent undergrad uate committee: “The scholarship committee was used as a catspaw by the faculty to accomplish certain objectives. They knew the students might ob ject; so they got them to ask for the reorganization which the fac ulty wished. The faculty told the student coiBmittee what to rec ommend and they recommended it.” Being intimately concerned we wish to make public the following protests: First, that Professor Howe’s con fession of Machiavellian machina tions against the students should not be taken, as it implies an indictment against the general faculty of studied dishonesty and deliberate bad faith in its dealing with the students. We believe that the con fession should be taken merely as a personal one. Second, that we are unpersuaded that Professor Howe’s confessed duplicity in the recent matters of faculty-student academic reform ef forts, was more than an intent. This we affirm because of our firm and honest convictions that our work in this connection was entirely spon taneous and independent. The Sometime Independent Un dergraduate Committee, HENRY ALDERMAN, SOL ABRAMSON, GLEN BURCH, K. BONBRIGHT, DAVID TURTELTAUB, BERTRAM JESSUP, RAY NASH, Brickbat for the Seers To the Seven Seers: There was once a time when a feature column was supposod to be funny. That was, it would appear, in the good old days. Now, the main purpose of our so-called “jokers” is to take a personal ding here and there at anyone, from the greenest freshman to the most mature profes sor, who dares to have and to ex press an opinion. According to our most upright and honourable Seers, a professor in the English department, H. C. Howe by name, took an hour off, a few days ago, to “dabble in cam pus politics.” What he really did was to discuss newspaper policies for a short time, during which he stated that far larger schools than our own seem to find men who are capable of editing their publica tions, although they may have no such thing as a “school of journal ism.” And we might infer from that, that a man who has not been journalistically trained may be cap able of editing our own paper. (This is not propoganda.) As for myself, I wish Mr. Bergh a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, if ho does win his of fice as editor, because ho is very apt to have as his co-workers a staff entirely opposed to all his policies, simply because they are his. An edi torial staff which will permit any part of its paper to print such raustic remarks aiming at the head of s<f tine a friend as Professor Howe has been to the University of Oregon, and label it- “funny,” is ipt to misrepresent itself to its readers, as well as lose support for itself. Indeed, the Emerald might find a few of its most loyal supporters scratching their heads and wonder ing if they did just right in voting iown the amendment which caused such a stir not long ago. At least, there might be felt a need for some sontrol of our wiseerackers—say, let them subscribe to a “Whizz Bang,” so that they might copy their jokes, and get an occasional .me that is funny, for a change, rather than sharpening their wits jy flinging political mud at one of the University's best and most loyal friends, because he dares to nit SEVEN * SEERS W It’s a pleasure to talk with per sons who are frank In saying that they disagree with some of your own Ideas. The average dlsagreer does his disagreeing behind your back and when you meet him face to face he Is little more than any other yes-yes man. * * • The University of Oregon is given a little mention in the June Amer ican Mercury in #n article, “Higher Learning Goes to War.” As the title suggests, it deals with some of the incidents which took place in our universities during the war, and which we like not to remember. The Allen Eaton incident on this campus, which most of you probably remember, is brought up again by the author. * * * MANY A TRUE WORD IS SPOKEN THROUGH FALSE TEETH. There’s a girl in school this term named Fountain. It would be inter esting to know if she is one of the gushy type. Divorced are Mr. And Mrs. Epley; She didn’t make The soup adeptly. The rumor that this year’s Ore gana will be off the press before the printing of the next one is started is well founded. But who am I to say anything about that when it was the humour section that held the book up. JUMBLED MAXIM ALL PLAY AND NO WORK MAKES THE JACK GO EAST. • * * Ckrnldi anything be more |blind than two blind people in love? * * * A certain ' . Fellow by the ^ Name of Nash Caused no Little gnashing of ■ Teeth last Night. * * * hint; to drivers Watch the curves, don’t feel them. • • • The Phi Bet banquet was held last night. Ruth Griffith may have been on the program, I don’t know, but I’ll bet she didn’t sing one of her favorite songs. FAMOUS LAST WORDS “May I borrow your notes?” say something in class, which isn’t in the book! I am complacently expecting seven heads to learn that I am at present enrolled in a course given by Pro fessor Howe, and to have seven fingers of shame pointed at me, with an accompanying hiss of “hand shaking;” I’ve no doubt that they will not disappoint me. Very sincerely, II. M. B. LA POLITESSE (University Daily Kansan)—Every good me chanic knows that oil is more im portant to an automobile than either water, gasoline or air. Most of us are good mechanics so far as our automobiles are concerned; but few of us today know the value of that social lubricant, politeness. Manners are nowadays a bit passe and Mid-Victorian. We joggle each other as we pass on the street; we j are churlish at home and snappish at work. We have erected govern ments as a modus vivendi for get ting along with each other as groups, but we are forgetting the good, old-fashioned formulae for getting along with each other individual ly. What polish wo do have we have learned from Emily Post, and not from an innate kindness of heart. This jazz age has been in dicted for lhany sins of commission. Here lies a field in which a sin of omission is apparent. Heilig Sat., May 28 Mat. at 3. Eve. at 8:30 Special Return Engagement of the Superb Cinema Spectacle Exactly as presented here last month hr General Lew Wallace Touring Orchestra And Complete Effects PRICES—Mat. 50, 75, and $1.10 Eve. 75, $1.10 and $1.65 Inc. Tax Positively the final showings in Eugene this year nieatws > BEX: Last day: Leatrice Joy in “For Alimony Only,” a startling drama of modern married life, that asks and answers the topical ques tion, “what of women who marry ‘for alimony only’?”—with Clive Brook and Lilyan Tashman feat ured; Poodles Hanneford comedy, “Circus Capers,” featuring the fa mous “big top” riding star right at home; John Clifton Emmel at the organ. Coming (Friday)—“Held by the Law,” a gripping drama of intrigue and the secret service in a battle against the present day crime wave, McDONALD: First day: Baymond Griffith in “Wedding Bill$,” an avalanche of hilarity in which the inimitable Bay reaches the heights of hilarity with a bombardment of marital mirth that will knock Old Man Gloom half way across the con tinent,—it’s the last word in “Laff Week” entertainment; on the stage, Sharkey Moore and his versatile Merry-Macks in “Marital Mel odics,” a delightful mixture of mu sic and mirth nightly at nine; also: “That’s No Excuse,” another of those clever “Excirsemaker” com edies; Frank Alexander in musical comedy settings on the organ; Ore gon Pietbrial news events. Coming (Monday)—Syd Chaplin in the classic of comedies of the great war, “The Better ’Ole,” adapt ed by critics far and wide as the outstanding film farce of the year. • • * COLONIAL: Last day to see one of the best pictures dealing with the problems of a modern marriage and how they were overcome. Mae Busch and Pat O’Malley in “The Perch of the Devil.” Alice Day comedy, “Her Actor Friend,” Aes ops Fables. A A A ;CAMPUS ’Bulletir Dial meets at Dr. Stuart’s to night at 8:00. Meeting of Oregon Knights to night at 7:30 in room one, Admin istration building. This will be last meeting of year, and all are urged to be present. Mathematics club—last meeting of year in room 1, Johnson hall at 7:30 tonight. Important business. Sigma Delta Pi initiation to be held Friday at 5 p. m. in the Wom an ’s building. Order of the “O” meeting at 11 o’clock Thursday. Election of of ficers. Important. Alpha Kappa Delta meeting to night at 7:30 in Alumni hall of Woman’s building. TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, PHILA DELPHIA, Pa.—All examinations have been abolished because the psychology department says that they are antiquated and inaccurate. TIFFIN, O.—Every two weeks half the men and half the .co-eds dine in each other’s dining halls. This plan was put into effect in an attempt to rid the campus of bash fulness. iisiiHirarararHiniiininiinaniinsinirarainiiiananairiiininiiisini When the Wel come of a Hotel Is as Warm as that of a Home— You’ll want to stay there. People who come to Eugene and desire the best ac <■ commodations always look forward to their stay, for they know it will he enjoyed at the— Eugene Hotel Phone 2000 I I I r i May Clearance on 50 Dresses $12.50 Values to $24.75 ◄ 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Dresses of fine silk crepes, woolen sport materials, tub silks, etc., are included in this 4 group. New colors and new styles. Every dress worth much more. 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