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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1929)
University of Oregon, Eugene ARDEN X. PANGBORN, Editor LAURENCE B. THIELEN, Manager EDITORIAL BOARD W. E. Hempstead.Assoc. Editor William Haggerty.Assoc. Editor Leonard TTagstrom.Assoe. Editor Arthur Schoeni.Managing Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Carl Gregory .Asst. Managing Editor Donald Johnston .Feature Editor ?erena Madsen .Literary Editor Joe J isrney .Sporta Dorothy Baker .Society Leonard Delano ......V. J. P. Editor Editor Editor rvews ana auiwr i nune ooo EDITORIAL STAFF MAKEUP EDITOR: Clarence Craw. DAY EDITORS: Vinton Hall. Lawrence Mitchelmore, Serena Madsen, Carl Gregory, Elaine Craw ford ; Mary Klemm, assistant. NIGHT EDITORS: Rex Timing, chief; Fred Bcchill, Ruth Gaunt, Charles Barr, Barney Miller, Mildred Dobbins. ASST. NIGHT EDITORS: Julia Currie, Victor Kaufman, Mary Ellen Mason, Beatrice Bennett, Jean Carman, H. A. Wingard, Ralph Yergen, Alyce Cook, Dave Tottan. GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORTERS: Ralph Millsap, La Wanda Fenlason, Chrystal Ordway, Margaret Clark, Wilfred Brown, Mary McClean, Harry Tonkon. SPORTS STAFF: Estill Phipp.;, Delbert Addison, Alex Tamkin, Joe Brown, Fred Schultz, Harry Van Dine. REPORTERS: Mary Klemm. Myron Griffin, lister McDonald, Mary Helen Koupal, Cleta McKennon, Audrey Henricksen. Margaret Reid, Gene Laird, Alice Gorman, T. Ncii Taylor, Willis Duniway, Lois Nelson, Dorothy Thomas, Dorothy Kirk, Carol Hurlburt, Phyllis VanKimmel, David Wilson, Dolly Horner, Aileen Barker, Elise Sehfoeder, Osborne Holland, John Dodds, Henry Lumpee, Lavlna Hicks, Merlin Blais, Rex Turning. BUSINESS STAFF vruimm n. riHinmoim . nssociHie manager George Weber Jr.Foreign Artv. Manager Dorothy Ann Warnick-.-Asat. Foreign Mgr. Phil Hammond.Service Dept. Ruth Creager.Secretary-Cashier v,nariea .wm...Advertising Manager Richard Horn..Asst. Adv. Manager Harold Renter.Aaet. Adr. Manager Ted He *itt.Circulation Manager Margaret Poorman.Mgr, Cheeking Dent. uuuini-TO wuicc i none lovo ADVERTISING SALESMEN: Addison Brockman, ilob 'Millet*, Ltrry WiKtins, Jack GreKB, Mod Hall, Bob Holmes, Ina Tremblay, Betty Hatfen, Mara*ref, Underwood. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Jane Fraley, Harriet Arena, Dorothy Jones, Carol Hnrlbtlrt, Kathryn Ferigo, Julianne Benton. Guy Stoddard, Jim Landreth, Lawrence Jackson. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday, durtns the college year. Member of the Faciflc Inter-collegiate Press. Entered In the peat office at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 ■ year. Adver tising rates upon application. Residence phone, manager, 2791). Jo Stofiel, secretary. Day Editor Thlo /sane— Carl Gregory Night Editor Thit /ssue— Rex Turning A««t. Night Editor This Issue—Ruth Gaunt Mary Ellen Mason When a Registration System Wastes 200 Years of Time Classes are about ready to function today,—at least, for those students who have finally passed through the rig-marole of registering. Once again the students have become disillusioned. The system of registration established at the start of the fall quar ter is not the rosy-hned procedure of efficient, enrollment de void of red tape that was pictured. Having partially at least passed through the orgy again, we begin to realize thajt Utopia is far removed. More than that, three thousand students are obliged to waste unnecessary time. What is wrong with the present method of registration? It wastes the student's time! Perhaps it is because of the need to get signatures from every professor under whom a course is to be tatken. Perhaps it is because there arc so many blanks to fill out. Perhaps the professors who must sign are too scattered about the various buildings on (lie campus. Perhaps too many changes of program must he ma»le. Perhaps too many hours have been flunked. Perhaps the students do not cooperate to the maximum extent in trying to avoid complicated errors. Perhaps there are too many students. Whatever the cause, the fact remains that the system in not organized efficiently enough to save trouble and time. After all the work of registering is only technical, detailed work that annoyance becomes a nuisance after one or two days of struggle. Why should the equivalent of forty-eight hours each quarter be devoted to such a process? Surely the task is not so complicated that some better plan cannot he found. The problem is merely one of making three thousand individual men and women registered istu deiits in the university. Hut to do so has become a Herculean task, requiring imaginative skill, infinite patience, bulldog tenacity, British persistence and sportsmanship, Herman plrif osophy and Spencerian penmanship. Two days each term, squandered in tile-processes of reg istering. Material must he obtained, and schedule worked out with adviser, fee paid before the end of the second day. The lirst meeting ol each class is seldom successful. Two days Ihrec times a year for each student during each four years' Six days a week for four years is twenty-four days lost by each person during his college career. This minimum esti mate does not take account of the entire week practically lost in fresh mail registration; and nothing mentioned about reg istration maze at summer school sessions. Twenty-four da vs lost for each student who goes through the Oregon halls of learning! Multiplying this twenty-four days by three thousand stu dents gives us a total lost time during each four year college general ion ol 72,000 days or approximately 200 year's1 There is something wrong with a registration method winch in Osell quadrennially wastes two centuries, or the life lime of three long-lived human beings. 1 CAMPUS V >RUIH . ''•I r’ To tin* Kditor: As a fitting expression of public opinion, 1 should like to suggest that a bonus, made up of fees charged for Into registration, bo awarded to those groat minds who dox ist'd out* system of registration. Through the years nil faults have been carefully noted and eorroefod; all noxv eonditions have boon taken into consideration. This winter term we have a system of registra tion as nearly perfect as it possibly ean be. Material is distributed in the Ad ministration building. This is a wise provision, for the great num ber of people crowded in one room make* the heating of that room un necessary and saxes money for the university. The great number of lines which wind about one another teach students to investigate — uot for its appearance alone to stand in the line which looks to be the cor rect one. Tin crush of students around the windows aids in the working out ot the great law of nature—the sui vival of the fittest. The fact that one * an have service at a window without going through the line that is waiting is a \oiv good provision, lor In it the im|>;itit'itt and fhof' patient students develop more pa- j ^ tiertee. Another Aviso provision is that In "'hieh one Student may obtain the 1 registration material of three or!" j four of his friends. Thus one ean So through, a line or foree his way to a window and obtain the- re i *|ttired material of his friends who have arrived when the lino has grown so long Hint it would he tire some to go through it as the patient Students do. This feaehes one the value of true friends. 1 have enumerated but a few of the many advantages of our worthv ' system of registration. May 1 ex press to the authors of onr system mv deepest appreciation. U. L. It. Classified l.osi During exam week, Parker Hue fold pencil. Him k and white marble design, name engraved. Monte l,. Wolf, Delta Kp »i Ion. Howard. [ ___ i |('OZll,\ furnished apartmeut for rent, \ er\ reasonable, l.'t.'ll Kmor aId street. Phone dh.'M-J. A PAR I M I1. N 1’ tor rent—x> rooms and bath, sleeping porch, fire place, furnished or unfurnished. Pd-1 Mill ijt. Call l l.m-W, Miss Tiujjk. is tViwV MOTHER AND DAD AND I HAD A WONDERFUL TIME AT OUR CHRISTMAS TREE— —except for one thing. Some body sent me a bottle of alcohol. Imagine] my embarrassment! Wo haven't an automobile. NOVEL REGISTRATION PLAN MAKKES BIG HIT Oregon Method Given Best "Standing" on Entire Coast UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eu gene, Dec. it.—(Special)—By noon today four hundred students, weak from standing in line without food since early yesterday, staggered in to Station li and completed their registration. They were all who re mained of three thousand to start. University officials at a late hour today expressed the opinion that classes could not begin until all are registered and that that might not be until late in February. Ambulances surrounded McArthur court, scene of the marathon, and every minute one may be seen leav ing for one of the local hospitals. WASHINGTON, i). (!., Feb. (Special)—Bed Cross officials here today were making hurried plans to dispatch relief trains of doctors and nurses to Eugene to help in the registration plague that has descend ed upon the University of Oregon. GRADUATE MANAGER’S OF FICE, Eugene Special)—Jack W. Benefiel, graduate manager of the A. S. U. O., cancelled all of Oregon’s conference basketball games this morning when it became obviotts that the team could not be regis tered in time to carry out the sched ule.. Furthermore, McArthur court will he crammed with registering students for the remainder of the term. EUGENE, Oregon, t’ob. —(Spe dal)—Hundreds of unemployed from ill over (he state were flocking to Ibis college town today following die announcement of university of ficials that common laborers would ic paid per dav for carrying •egislering students out of the lines is they collapsed. Jack stood in line Most all of Wednesday; Tom did it all in ten minutes Thursday. PORTLAND, Oregon, Fell. 3. — Special)—Representatives of all Nestern railroads met in the New deathman hotel here today and inanimonsly decided to aid the icute registration situation at the J. of O. The university will he al owc'l the use of all mountain tun lels and will be granted permission o construct “stations" at one end if each. I'M VERW1TV OF <>[! FtlOX, Ku T»e, Fell. ,1.—(Special)- I’nivorsity fficials held a conference this morn ng and decided to send a delegation o the state legislators to try to im 'ress upon that body the need for arge buildings to be used for reg sfration. The university's enroll lent has more than tripled since last ear when all registering was done n the small lobby of the adniiuis- | ration building. Amos Burg telegraphs in that, he as finally got his last Christmas Interesting- Leather From Roman Makers In picture frames, writing eases, boxes and comb eases. " W ateli (lie t'ubbv hole \Y iinlow "The Shop That’s Different" Aladdin Gift Shop Next to Y. M. C. A. present priced and finds that he is short $.33 on this Christmas. “Would have made the grade 0. K.. hot the pen my sister got me took a drop in price yesterday.” the telegram I reads. HURRAY! WE ARE A STTT‘- j DENT IN GOOD STANDING. (WE WERE IN STANDING A GOOD DAY AND A HALF.) Now we know what they mean When they say they have some good students “lined up.” , * 5- •* SEVEN SEERS The Ambler Yesterday we saw: ADELAIDE HYPES g.'l/.ing fondly :it a II on an exam paper . . . BAR CLAY MeDONALD hurdling a mud puddle (attention Bill Hayward) . . . HENRY HALL talking to four of the university’s co-ed population . . . TOM TIIAYER pulling up another geologist’s tie . . . AL COUSINS reading a vellow magazine . : . LE ROY BAUGHMAN talking to an other man’s girl . . . MARY WARD handing a book over the library counter .. . .JOHN SCHEFFER wearing golf knickers in the winter time . . . MARY KLEMM writing headlines for the Emerald . . . JOHN I NELSON following the A. S. U. O. prexv about the “shack.” McDONALD—A1 .lo'sonand Betty Bronson in “The Singing Bool.” Also, Clark and McCullough in “The Honor System,” a Vitaphone vaude ville comedy. HEILIG-—“Hits anil Bits from Broadway,” featuring Glen “Bozo” Singer and the beauty chorus. Also, Eve Southern in “Clothes Make the Woman.” Coming, William Haines in “The Smart Set.” REX—“Man Made Women,” with If. B. Warner and Beatrice ,Jov. Also, “Her Mother’s Back,” a Fox cutup comedy. COLONIAL- “The Blood Ship,” starring Hobart Bosworth and Jac queline Logan. A drama«of the sea. Also, a Christie comedy and news reel. Binns (Continued from Tagc One) Hawaii was turned back, 0 to 0, on New Year’s day. 4 The Oregon basketball team won its pre-season tilts at Portland. The Checkerboards were downed, 49 to 34, and the Multnomah club, 50 to 19. Seven lettermen are ready to start the conference season at Se attle against the Washington Husk ies, January 19. Oregon fans, didwever, will see the team in action before it heads north. The opening game of the season is tomorrow night at 7:30 o’clock when the Webfoots meet the Willamette Bearcats in Mc Arthur court. l\4jimfYC HCPCRTtR a Today ’a question: Do you think, prohibition has been a success? Margaret O’Farrell, a senior in music: “I really don’t think that j prohibition has been a success—it ! has not lessened drinking any. I , think that some different method , should be used to prevent excessive drinking—even the officers that are supposed to enforce the laws drink, and arc not efficient.” Leah Harrington, junior in Eng lish: “Yes, 1 do think it has been successful—it has aided civilization to be more refined.” John Crockett, sophomore in edu cation: “Yes, T rather think that it has—having improved social condi tions in some ways. At least, it has had very good effects on the older people who were former drunkards.” Earl Kollocn, freshman in busi ness administration: “I don't think that it has been a success because it has caused a law to be made which has not been enforced—any law not enforced is unsuccessful.” Don McCormick, senior in eco nomics: “No—because everywhere there are evidences of too much liquor.” Failure {Continued from Vage One) the American comedy. Bootleggers or enforcement officers—I don’t know which are the more amusing. It lias created a strange atmosphere of suspicion, destroying a good deal of the old hospitality. Everyone suspects a traveller of being either a bootlegger or a prohibition offi cer,” he opened with a laugh. Then he grew more serious and decried the uselessness of trying to enforce sumptuary laws, trying to j put over an iron-clad statute before a “custom” law is ready for it. “When you try to tell a man what he shall or shall not wear, or try to prevent him pouring liquids down his gullet, you’ve undertaken a task which is bound to strain the power ;>f any sovereign state. Even abso lute monarebs have been unable to enforce such measures.” Professor Smith mentioned Irving Fisher’s book, “Prohibition: A Fail ure,” as arguing well that not all Hie post-war lawlessness was due i to contempt for prohibition itself, [ out to the weakness of judicial law ‘iiforcement. “Any reform movement soon be comes a vested interest to take a. lot of money away from the W. C. 1'. C., and the gpod sisters of the Ladies’ Aid. The money obtained YE OLD OREGON BARBER SHOP Next to College Side Inn Hair Cuts our specialty W. H. Ashworth, Proprietor Wallace Heinenway and Eugene Patton, Assistants |!)B®SI3MEJSIc!EISI3M0ISJSi3®SiSISI5I5IBHSi5/SIc!ISlc!ISrEf3Ic!ISJ5M315J3J51uKS33MSIf53 a a * Oregon Students With this, the first issue of the Emer ald, we wish you all a most Happy and Successful New Year. Raup’s Floral Shop 988 Willamette Phone Gl(i Keep Warm to - - Keep Well and the main way to keep warm is to burn slabwood which is the cheapest and hottest fuel on the market. If your supply is getting low telephone now for the best slabwood available. Phone 452 Booth-Kelly LUMBER CO. is chiefly in overhead and adver tising.” Professor Smith declared further that he regarded the bitterest phase of prohibition as being a class legis lation. The owning class can—and do-—get their liquor while regarding themselves frankly above the law. “At the same time they say it is good for the working classes to have their liquor supply cut off. Per haps it is but it doesn’t square very well with our profession of,equality and democracy, for the owning classes to say this outright. “As a matter of fact, they don't say it ontright. All their news papers make a public profession sup porting the law, but the back stairs gossip is quite definitely in favor of prohibition—for the masses. In other words, ‘it’s all right as long as they don’t try to enforce it on us.’ I don’t think that is even rough justice. Like all sumptuary legislation, it is apt to create more injustice than it remedies,” he de clared. , From the point of view of personal health and public hygiene*, Professor Smith considers total abstention a good thing. “There is, perhaps, a bud thing about pouring small quantities of poison down our gullets. . “Also, few modern Americans can say with Thomas Jefferson that they are blessed with digestions which will accept and concoct whatever the pallet chooses to. consign to them.” And saying that on these grounds, it is probably a good thing for everybody to keep away from liquor, he pushed the reporter toward the fire escape. Record Headquarters for VICTOR and BRUNSWICK lu Victor Records— “A Bag of Blues” “Don’t Hold Every tjliing” “Mv Black Birds are Blue Birds Now” Brunswick Records— “The Mooche” “ ’Hound Evening” “Uloriaiina” LARAWAY’S MUSIC STORE 070 Willamette C CAMPUS ^BliLLCIIIVj Will an Oregon girl who lias been helping Dorothy Thomas in the office of the Y. W. C. A. at tens, please come in and see her and arrange hours. Oregon Knight meeting this after : noon. Room 105, Administration building. Important. 3 p. m. Tin Murray Warner museum library on the third floor of the Woman's building will be open for the win ter term the following hours: week days from 9-12 and 1-5 ex cept on Monday when it will be onen only from 1-5. It will bo closed on Sunday. Oregana staff please bring prepared copy to office today. Meeting Tuesday at 4 in 10-1 Journalism. Smoker ‘U” Awaiting Loved One Jamesburg, N. J., December 2, 1927 Jest a-sittin’, smokin’ Edgeworth An’ a-thinkin’, dear of you; An’ a candle’s burnin’ brightly. An’ it says your love is true. For the days are long, of waitin’, An’ the nights are longer still, An’ sometimes (always smokin’) I pick up this old quill— An’ try to write some poetry To tell you of my love. As poetry it ain’t much good, But—holy days above— It’s jest the best I can, an’ so You’ll find me, when I’m through. Jest a-sittin’, smokin’ Edgeworth, An’ a-thinkin’, dear, of you. “J” Edgeworth Extra High Grade Smoking Tobacco Life Is Like That One DeNeffe Pro in 1 ux after another — you can t keep a best bet a secret. All the trimmings from dress oxfords to,derby. DeNeffe’s McDonald theatre bldg. '