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EARL W. SLOCUM, Manager
SOL ABRAMSON, Editor
EDITORIAL BOARD
Bar Naah_Managing Editor
Florence Jones _ Literary Editor
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Henry Lumpee, Leonard Delano, Addison Brockman.
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Joe Pigney.
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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.
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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
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\
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
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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
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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.
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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.
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