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University of Oregon, Eugene RAY NASH, Editor MILTON GEORGE, Manager EDITORIAL BOARD Robert Galloway _ Managing Editor Claudia Fletcher _ Afis’t. Managing Editor Arthur Schoeni.. Telegraph Editor Carl Gregory ....--P. L P. Editor Arden X. Pangborn -Literary Editor Walter Coover_Associate Editor Richard H. Syring_Sports Editor Donald Johnston ....-Feature Editor Margaret Long --— Society Editor News and Editor Phones, 6W DAY EDITORS: William Schulze, Mary McLean, Frances Cherry, Marian Sten. NIGHT EDITORS: J. Lynn Wykoff, chief; Lawrence Mltehelmore, Myron Griffin, Rex Tussing, Ralph David, Floyd Horn. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Joe Rice, Mil Prudhomme, Warren Tinker, Clarence Barton, Joe Freck# Gordon Baldwin, Glen Gall, A- F. Murray# Harry Tonkon, Harold Bailey, W. J. Loundagin. SPORTS STAFF: Joe Pigney, Harry Dutton, Chalmers Nooe, Chandler Brown, Warren Tinker. _ . FEATL'RE STAFF: Florence Hurley, John Butler, Clarence Craw, Charlotte Kiefer, Don Campbell. , UPPER NEWS STAFF: Amos Burg, Ruth Hansen, La Wanda Fenlason, Flossie Radabaugh, William Haggerty, Herbert Lundy, Dorothy Baker. NEWS STAFF: Margaret Watson, Wilfred Brown, Grace Taylor, Charles Bole#, Elise Sehoeder, Naomi Grant, Maryhelen Koupal, Josephine Stofiel, Thirza Ander son, Etha Jeanne Clark, Mary Frances Dilday, William Cohagen, Elaine Crawford, Audrey Henrikson, Phyllis Van Kimmell, Margaret Tucker, Gladys Blake, Ruth Craegcr, Leonard Delano, Thelma Kern, Jack Coolidge Chrystal Ordway, Elizabeth Schuitze, Margaret Reid, Glcnna Heacoek, Irene Urfer, Joe Rice. BUSINESS STAFF LARRY THIELEN—Associate Manager Ruth Street . Advertising Manager Bill Bates -- Foreign Adv. Mgr. Bill Hammond _ Ass't. Advertising Mgr. Wilbur Shannon .... Axs’t. Circulation Mgr. Lifcielle George .. Mgr. Checking Dept. Ray Dudley..— Assistant Circulator Ed. Bissell . Circulation Manager ADVERTISING SALESMEN—Charles Reed, Frances Mullins, H. Day Foster, Richard Horn, Harold Hester, Ray Smick, John Caldwell, Sam Luders, Jennings Beard. FINANCE ADMINISTRATOR—George Weber. ADVERTISING ASSISTANTS—Harold Bailey, Herb King, Ralph Millsap. OFFICE ADMINISTRATION—Doris Pugsley, Haryette Buttcrworth, Helen Laur gaard, Margaret Poorman, Kenneth Moore, Betty’ Boynton, Pauline Prigmore, Map garct Underwood. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday apd Monday duping the college year. Member, United Press News Service. Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene. Oregon, as second-ciosB matter. Subscrip tion rates, $2.50 per year. Advertising rates upon application. Residence phone, editor, 721; manager, 2799. Business office phone, 1896. Day Editor This Issue—Mary McLean Night Editor This Issue—Myron Griffin Assistant Night Editors— Joe Freck THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1928 One Never Misses What He Never Had (The Dartmouth) BLOOD spilled in the name of freedom and self-rule saturates tho pages of history. Many au ar dent patriot has bitten the dust in this cause sinco Moses led his party across a courteously-disposed Red Sea to the hoped-for freedom of the promised land. Many a sturdy Gaelic, cranium has succumbed to violent pressure for tho sake of autonomy in Iho Emerald Isle. But ' at least wo have come upon the group that is loftily indifferent to self-government on whatever terms. This group simply does not care for it. The student council at Yale has resigned with tho recommendation that student government there bo abolished. The Committee of Seven of Amherst College recently resigned in a huff because the college hired a policeman to usurp their duties because, duo to the efficiency of this policeman, some Amherst and iSmith students were dismissed for conduct unbecoming the quiet virtuo of the Amherst campus. Even tho serenity of Harvard calm has of late been ruffled by student gov ernment controversy. It is hap pening everywhere. Student government rests neces sarily on the honor system. Collego students just cannot got enthusiastic, over the honor system. It is a fundamental truth of undergradu ate life that, virtuo must have its vacations and that college regula tions must inevitably be sometimes disobeyed. And although there is a certain sportsmanlike joy in slip ping one over on the administration, one’s honor cannot be similarly light ly treated. Tho honor system holds one too strictly. It is a pretty idea, but it works too well. Here at last is something that we don’t have to abolish at Dartmouth, because that wo don’t liavo any. True, we have our l’alaoopitus and our Occom Council. Hums are duly planned, freshman fights restrained this side of barbarism, football ral lies tenderly nurtured, train conces sions awarded. But all discipline is quietly ami inexorably meted out over in the sanctums of the admin istration building, and everybody is glad of it. A Hint of How Things Should Be (University of Washington Daily) THREE or four students, majors in history at the University of Washington, got together not long ago and organized what is now known ns the History club. At present it is still an infant two or three weeks old but it has gathered strength by the addition, of several more student and faculty members. To most of us it is probably a History club and nothing mare — just another of the legion of groups, clubs, societies, organizations and elans that befuddle the averago stu dent with a conglomeration of Greek, Anglo-Saxon and typically American cognomens. But when tho program and ob jectives of this small group are given more than cursory thought, there seems to bo something in it that sets it apart. Tho programs are made up by papers on some in teresting historical subjects pre pared and read by members of tho club. Discussion has its place. No, there is no credit involved, no rec ognition, no reward except that tho individual members may fool that they have learned something, have sifted some kernels from tho abun dant chaff. Tho History club is not unique. Wo call to mind another group, ex clusive in a sense, made up of stu dent and some faculty members, who functioned in practically the same manner but in fields literary and philosophical. Scavengers of knowledge. Many of the student members got more out of the meetings of tho club than out of many of their courses. It was not work although it was study. It was mental stimulation. Somehow or other, this form of study and tho attitude involved smack distinctly of University, or what University should be. Mrs. Kingsmill Guest At Patroness Dinner Mrs, A. S. Kingsmill was guest of honor at tho patroness dinner given last evening by the members of Sigma Beta 1’hi sorority. Other guests included Mrs. A. E. Roberts, Mrs. W. G. Beattie, and Mrs. Al fred L, Lomax. ASK THE MANAGER OF THE HOTEL S. A. E. HOW MANY FORKS WERE BROKEN WHEN HE SPRANG FROZEN PEACHES FOR DESSERT. • • • (Medford Mail Tribune) “Cramer Deuel of the If. of O. student body week-ended at home. He is a unique collegian. He studies, keeps up his socks, has no mustache, and his hair remains unmarcelled.” (How about it, Sigma Nu? Are you going to continue to let such undesirable University publicity leak out?) WOODWORTH FALLS FROM HORSE J. Alden Woodworth, dramatic star, went horseback riding the other day. lie thought ho was a good horseman and picked a snappy horse at the stable. However, he overestimated his ability. The horse started to run away and J. Alden jumped therefrom. Scared?—Yes— (It is always well, especially when learning, to strap a parachute around one’s waist. It gives an added feeling of security.) • • • TODAY’S GEOGRAPHICAL ANSWER “Did Schenectady?” “Just a little bit.” (Never be fore had 3uch hysteria reigned.) # * * Elmer Harrington, Theta Chi, is out for the world’s pigging cham pionship—he entertained'a D. Z. from 2:00 to 10:30. Alpha—“What was the big fuss at your house the other night?” Upsilon—“One of the fellows dis covered a spoon that belonged to the house.” SCRANTON, Pa., March 6.— (Special)—Thirty students, all reg ularly enrolled in the sch|oe(l (of business administration, were dis missed from the International Cor respondence School hero today fol lowing action of the discipline com mittee. The wholesale dismissal fol lows the finding last week of traces of intoxicating liquor on stamps and envelope flaps of the students con cerned. * * # STATISTICS NOT WORTH KNOWING If all the grand opera stars who smoked Lucky Strike cigar ettes were placed end to end, they would feel mighty foolish. SMOKH- “MEOWING CAT” CIG ARETTES. NO SCRATCH, NO PURR. THE ANGLE WORM’S REVENGE Synopsis: The worm has turned and is now sleeping on its side. Driven to desperation with only two shots under his belt, he joins Custer for a final stand. CHAPTER VII The Trysting Place Colonel I. Wiggle, the fugitive angle worm, lay silently in the marsh. His faithful horso had dragged his punctured carcass to where the wagon tongue could lick his wounds. Suddenly consciousness dawned and ho remembered the mortgage on the old homestead. He would take the secret tunnel through the aban doned mine and thwart the dastard ly plans of his step-sister's uncle. Freezing his whiskers in an ice-box to look like an Arctic explorer, he harnessed some wild wolves and drove through the posse, who mis took him for Dean Shirrell and his Airdale. The fugitive rode his horse up the perpendicular cliff and swam Box Canyon two inches ahead of a log jam. . “Hesitate,” he cried, as he blew his traffic whistle to stop his mother as she was about to sign the papers. “Here is your money,” he hissed at the squire as he flung him a dime and waited for tho change. “Will that be all?” the squire asked. “Yes,” Colonel I. Wiggle replied haughtily, “You may wrap it up in the same bundle with the smelt.” (Finis) • • • FAMOUS LAST WORDS “Can I sit by you in the exam?” » * » TA, TA, TILL NEXT TERM SEVEN SEERS. Frosh Baseball Starts First of Spring Term Following the meeting of Frosh Coach, Spike Leslie, with his duck ling diamond aspirants Monday, it was decided to hold over the year ling regular baseball call until the beginning of the spring term. In the meantime the duckling Frozen Desserts Have Universal Appeal House Managers! If you want to sat isfy everyone in the house, try feeding them ice cream! Specials for Week of March 5th BRICK I layer—Strawberry and Nougat 1 layer—Marshmallow 1 layer—Boston Cream BULK Strawberry Nougat Eugene Fruit Growers Ass’n Phone 1480 Eugene, Oregon Milk At Its Best Is Fresh, Rich, Pure Wildrose Milk is full cream milk—just as rich and wholesome as it comes from the cow. Each bot tle of our milk is pasteur ized for 30 minutes at a temperature of 142° F. Nothing is left to chance. Phone 759 Independence Creamery Before You Go I his is our last opportunity to wish you success in exams. Before you go, be sure you have every thing you need in drugs or cosmetics. Come in any time—we are sure to have what you want. “So Near to the Campus’’ Lemon - 0 Pharmacy Thirteenth and Alder Streets mentor cautioned the freshmen to j “hit the ball’’ in regard to their books to keep the ineligibility list down as low as possible when school opens for the new term. The frosh are advised to keep in condition and utilize any avail able opportunity for limbering up their throwing arms. About twen ty-five reported to Leslie at the Monday meeting and more are ex pected to put in their appearance for first practice after spring vaca- ! tion. George Weber and liis music Again Sunday night at the Anchorage 50c Dinner Every Night STOREY-MEN TU WILLAMJirm BT. KNOWN FOR GOOD CLOTHES The University man is, above all, a gentleman- He shuns fads which cast discredit upon that title. He wears our “Princetone” University Suit because it has welcome dash without suggesting the odious “campus cut-up”. . . . start ing at $30. CONSOLATION WEEK NOW! 3 - 5c Bars 10c 2 - 10c Bars 15c Term’s End Summary University Co-operative Store Of course we wish you the best of luck for finals—now glance over the rest of this “ad.” J-J AVE you visited our new Book Balcony? It’s interesting, our recent visitors find. * * * ^4^ GOOD memory book is an asset for spring vacation rush work—our prices $3.15 to $7.25. * * # XT ERE’S another station ery special — $1.35 boxes Oregon Seal station ery—. 98c PRING — Just about! Bring in your racket and let us rejuvenate it. Ex pert stringer. # * * LAST chance for term papers. We sell typing paper by the ream 90c * * * E have the women’s official gym shoes— and for the men a new ten nis oxford. 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