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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1929)
University of Oregon, Eugene AJiDEN X. PANGBORN, Editor LAURENCE R. THIELEN, Manager EDITORIAL BOARD W. E. Hempstead Jr. Assoc. Editor Leonard Hagstrom.Assoc. Editor Arthur Schoeui.Managing Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Carl Gregory —Asst. Managing Donald Johns! » i .Feature Serena Mao.itii .Literary Editor Editor Editor Joe ripney . Dorothy Baker .Society Leonard Delano ..P. I. P. Editor Editor : Clarence Craw ..Makeup Editor Jo Stofiel.Secretary News and Editor I’hone 666 EDITORIAL STAFF DAY EDITORS: Vinton Hall, Lawrence Mitchelmore, Serena Madsen. Carl Gregory, Elaine Crawford; Mary Klemm, assistant. NIGHT EDITORS- R<x Tossing chief; Fred Rechill, Victor Kaufman, Charles Barr, Barney M'ller, Mildred Dobbins. ASST NIGHT EDITORS; Julia Currie, John Dodds. Ralph Morfitt, Beatrice Bennett, Jean German, Jo Barry, Ralph Yemen, Alyce Cook, Dave Totton, Thornton Shaw. GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORTERS: Ralph Millsap, I.aWanda Fenlaaori, Mar garet Clark, Wilfred Brown, Mary McClcan, Harry Tonkon. SPt/RTS STAFF: Delbert Addison, Ahx Tamkin, Joe Brown, Fred Schultz, Harry | Van Dine, Warren Tinker, Harold Fraundorf. REPORTERS: Mary Klemm. Myron Griffin, I .ester McDonald, Maryhclen Koupal, Cleta MrKennon, Audrey Hcnrieksen, Margaret Reid. Alice Gorman, T. Neil Taylor, Willis Duniwny, l.ois Nelson, Dorothy Thomas, Dorothy Kirk, Carol Hurlburt, Phyllis Van K itnmel, David Wilson. Aileen Barker, Klisc Schroedcr, Osborne Holland, John Dodds, Henry I.umpee, Lavina Hicks, Merlin Blais, Rex Tusaing. BUSINESS STAFF Will-am H. Hammond Associate Manager Charles Reed.Advertising Manager George Weber Jr. Foreign Adv. Manager Richard Horn.Asst. Adv. Manager Dorothy Ann Warnick Asst. Foreign Mgr. Harold Xestcr.Asst. Adv. Manager Phil Hammond.Service Dept. Ted Hewitt.Circulation Manager Ruth Crcager.Secretary-Cash’cr Larry Jackson Asst. Circulation Mgr. Margaret Poorman.Mgr. Checking Dept. Business Office Phone 180B ADVERTISING SALESMEN: Addison Brockman, Larry Witfeins, Emma jane Rorer, Bernard Clappcrton, William Cruikshank, Elaine Henderson, Bob Holmes, Ina Tremblay, Betty Hajren. Margaret Underwood. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Harry Hanson, Dorothy Jones, Carol Hurlburt, Kathryn I’erigo, ,1 alianne Benton, Guy Stoddard, Jim Landreth, Fred Reid. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. Member of the Pacific Inter-collegiate Press. Entered in the post office at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 a vear. Adver tising rates upon application. Residence phone, manager, 2799. Jo Stoficl, secretary. Day Editor This Issue—Vinton Hall Night Editor This Issue—Fred Bechill Asst. Night Editors This Issue—Gracemary Rickman Alyce Look Statistics Show College Men Healthy and Wise There has always circulated, especially among non-college men, the barest suspicion that college men do not live very long. They usually follow sedentary occupations, and disease and death in the mind of the muscle-bound is associated with the latter. The American Student Health association came forth with a report last week that not only frustrates that assump tion but turns the tables. The vital history of 40>()()() graduates from eight colleges from 1H70 to 190o, of .>,000 athletes of ten colleges and GfiOO honor men from six colleges from graduation until 1925 was collated. The college graduate mortality rate was K.S below the nation average, taking the latter as 100. The report also shows that it is dangerous to go to a big college because graduates of big colleges do not live as long as graduates of small colleges. The athletes present a high mortality rate. An athlete in a big college basil I a chance. To be on the safe side one should be a, l’hi Beta Kappa at Montana because the analysis say that they find honors men pretty .stubborn ajmut moving on. The respective mortality rates ol athletes and honors men are 91.5 and 77.2 Art of Cussing Meeds No Revival in Universities There is a variety of university pedagogue that vies with a curious species of modernist clergymen in startling the public attention into focus upon itself. Von will comprehend wlmt is meant when we mention the eastern college professor, and ol Knglisli, at that, who recently gave it as his opinion that pro fanity is lamentably on the wane, lie lelt, and said, that the need of the Knglisli speaking peoples is for better and more vig orous cuss words. And. as would so naturally follow, his re marks were enshrined on the front pages of public prints, which doubtless is what he had in mind all the while. hmphusis. observed our exponent ot Hit' tir eduention, is lost to 1 lif modern generation, and a refurbished and improved profanity would supply the lack. One dislikes to disagree with an authority, hut never! heloss it ought to lie remarked that this luminary of learning' talks flapdoodle. The truth is that of all the profane men we have known, few, few indeed possessed the merit of inner posiliveness, and many were weaklings of the first water. While there is diversion of a sort attending the re marks of one who has reeonrse to profanity for expression, it is frequently evident that his addietion conceals hut poorly lioth a paucity of thought and word, 'l'lie mother tongue fails Idm and he resorts to this expedient, for the reason that he Knows less KngTisli than does the average school child. If it he emphasis that the professor seeks, let him consider the spiritual quality of men who abstain from expletives and cuss words hut who have, despite this abstention, reputations for force and warranted self-assurance. There is so often more of finality, more of vigor, more of sense, in the least of their remarks that one is given to wonder if. after all. profanity even pays, (dancing about us. and calling to mind the types and sorts of men. we say in all truth that the most emphatic men we have ever known have been men of quiet manner and chaste speech. Portland Oregonian. Forum— Freedom? To the Kditor: The unjustifiable. sensational, and : damatiing attack upon l>r. Itovard ! and Mr. McClain h\ tin* student j con nidi in their rinrnt fantastic at i 11* hi I >t to prove that the Cniversity I'n o11 and tin* infirmary wviv mis managed has set evorv thinking person to ijuest ioning the propriety of student self-government. The council has none too gracefully pub lished Ilia results of their “probe” of the infirmary and in so d»»ii*4 has shown that tin* reputation of one of the most aide and eonseien j lions mouthers of oar faculty has1 been needlessly exposed to pilldir i opprobrium. The insult offered lot Mr. McClain as manager of the Coop has not yet been retracted. That the “investigation” into I lie I “alleged mis running ” of the Coop; was inspired b\ malice. I disbelieve. ‘ |tut it not. based on malice, it could have risen from no other source than a love of notoriety or that most dangerous of all forms of stupidity, j the kind that is regardless of pri vate reputation or the welfare of a worthy institution. Possibly it; sprang from the council’s too ready sympathy with the complaint of such nu ardent lover of knowledge ns omo' snarled ns lit* loft tlio book store: 1 I ain’t going to pay uo four bucks for uo hook.” Students com plain when they lonni that they must pay for know ledge, of course, lint sympathy for those who are pricked by the diaper pin of learn ing is hardly justification for be smirching the reputation of those who supply materials for clothing the infants' nakedness. The students do not realize, l dare say, that they are themselves members, the stockholders, so to speak, of the corporation known as “The ITiiversity of Oregon I'o oper alive stove.” The corporation was organized without capital stock a few yeais ago and developed into a going concern chiefly through the untiling efforts of Mr. Mct’laiu and such members of the faculty as lie could induce to advance the money necessary to put the store on its logs. Then to obtain the supplies which the students needed, credit was necessary, and this credit was gained only through the efforts of Mr. MeClaiu and secured only bv his reputation, which is now being assailed. His undertaking having proved successful, every student be comes a member of this corporation, merely by registering in the univer-* sity and paying the student fees. He is then entitled to a discount of f> per cent on every dollar’s worth of goods he purchases. This 5 per cent of the gross sales has amount ed to a dividend of one-third of the profits. That is to say, of the $ilG, 000 made by the store during the period of its incorporation, $12,000 has been returned to the students. The balance has been used to run the business. Were the Co-op to close its doors, whatever money, could be realized from the sale of its goods would pass into the hands of the board of regents of the uni versity for distribution among other student organizations. The store is under the manage ment of a board of directors con sisting of five students, elected by the students in May, and of two faculty members—at present Dean Gilbert and I lean Hovard—appoint ed by the student-directors. Meet ings of the directors are held some times monthly but always quarterly, at the time of the audit made by the certified public accountant em ployed, not by the manager, but by the board. Since the Co-op is open to the in spection of its student members at any time they choose to walk into the store and make an inquiry, the appointment of official investigat ors is not necessary. The great dif ficulty is to get student to take any interest in their own property. In addition to the regular board meet ings, an annual meeting of all mem bers of the corporation is called in the spring. This meeting is adver tised in the Emerald and every ef fort made to bring out a large at tendance of students — including members of the student council— that they may learn something of the aims, history, and methods of their own store, but hitherto these efforts towards an honest publicity have proved fruitless. Now, the council, with an ostentatious display of unwonted activity, proceeds to advertise an “investigation” in newspaper headlines, copied all over the slate, that call into question the honesty of the manager. Books are sold at the University Co-operative store at the publisher’s list price, the price asked in New York and Chicago. Nevertheless, dealers in Oregon must pay d per cent for freight on every dollar’s, worth of books whether purchased directly from New York or indirect ly from Han Francisco. Five per cent goes to the students in re | bates, leaving a margin for the . dealer of Id per cent, lint the over head amounts In nearly IS per cent, 1 so that books are actually sold at a | loss. If it were not for the profit On other stock in the store, books could not be sold at their present .price. If, through unpleasant noto | riely, the Co-op were forced out of business, or a less successful man ager were appointed, both students and faculty would be sad losers. No corporation engaged in luisi i ness for private profit would accom modate book buyers as the Co-op does, or sell for such prices. The i .students of Oregon buy fewer books than the students of any other uni versity with which I am familiar, and their patronage is less to be de pended on. If teachers are to con duct their classes, students must have books, must at least have ac cess In their room-mate’s book. TEA FOR TWO is \ erv popular just now The ANCHORAGE We have booths now These books must come, usually, from New York, and time must lie allowed for their .shipment by freight. Hut no teacher knows in advance exactly how many students die will have ill a class or what per centage of them will buy. He must depend upon the statistics of the Co-op and upon the willingness of the manager of the ('0-0)1 to run the risk of stocking more books than he Gan sell. Notoriously, private deal ers, engaged in the book business for profit only, will not run the risk. There will be fewer books at the opening of the term than are needed, and the teacher will mark time for three or four weeks—or until the needed books have been ordered, shipped, and delivered— with a class only half of whom are prepared. How disintegrating to the class morale such an experience mnv be, how wasteful of time and effort, every student and every teacher who has passed through it ought to know. And yet it is precisely such a condition that might be brought about by ill-considered “probes” and “investigations.” Ostensibly, self-government in student affairs is advantageous, in that it prepares the student to act wisely when he is freed from supervision. But free men are wise men only when they arc responsible, that is, when they suffer or anticipate the pains of an abuse of freedom. At present, col legi* students are irresponsible. They may ruin a man’s reputation, achieved by a lifetime of honest ef fort, without sd much as knowing they have done it, let alone paying the penalty for it. The rashness of our college “investigators” has led me to question the wisdom of free dom in college. C. W. BOY Eli. Correction To the Editor: In the story in Saturday's paper, .January IS), 011 the Springfield Eugene flood problem, 1 was quoted as saying that the “Union Pacific and Southern Pacific and U. S. re clamation bureau have experts at work attempting to solve it.” The reporter got it somewhat utfxed up. Ak far as J know these organiza tions are not studying this problem, and the Southern Pacific would be the only one interested at any rate. Tile others were mentioned ill an entirely different connection which the reporter completely lost sight of in writing his story. I would ap preciate- it if you would publish this correction. W. I). SMITH. I Sailor Gets This Tobacco in Far Port Buenos Aires, Argentine, Jan. 4, 1928 Lams & Bro. Co., Richmond, Va., U. S. A. Gentlemen: I’m a seafarer, and as such of course travel quite a lot. Right now I am in the Argentine, and am glad to say that I can here purchase your beloved Edgeworth Tobacco, of which I’m so very fond. It is indeed a pity that one can’t find this good smoke in every place of the seven seas. While recently in Germany, my home-country, I tried in vain to come upon one of these little blue tins. I’m not saying too much in mentioning that I would outwalk that famous mile, hunting up dear Edge worth. I dare say there is no other t obacco like it, and am convinced that Edgeworth cannot be improved. Let me know when you contemplate ceasing to make Edgeworth so |hat I may lay in a goodly store to last till I I’m seventy. j May Edgeworth never change! I’ll always remain Sincerely yours, Willie Schmekies Edgeworth Extra High Grade Smoking Tobacco The Cold Outdoors Who cares how cold it gets outdoors when we can keep toasty and warm inside after being out in the cold. What could be nicer than the warmth of a room heated with— SLABWOOD Long burning firewood for the house delivered promptly after receipt of your order. BOOTH KELLY LUMBER CO. Phone 452 Turning.. Back Pages In Campus History That Tell How The Collegians Used to Act. Fifteen Tears; Ago From Oregon Emerald, January 122, 1914 Students of tin* University of Oregon do not want self-govern ment, according to I’rof. F. S. Dunn, and do not consider that the system lias boon a success at California or O. A. C., where it has been tried. Ten graduate members of I’hi Beta Kappa in Eugene organized a graduate chapter last night, and will work to establish a chapter at Oregon. w # ‘X The senior committee unanimous ly disapproved the student self government plan at a meeting yes terday, but gave a majority approv al to the student council form of government. Twenty-five Years Ago From Oregon Weekly, January 2d, 1904 Varsity athletes are clamoring for the associated students to recognize basketball as a phase of our college athletics and apportion a per cent of the student body fund for the support of a team. Oregon’s basketball team clashes with Corvallis at the armory Feb ruary ~>. Beginning with the coming term a three hour course in general as tronomy will be offered to all stu dents who have had trigonometry. Professor Frazer will have charge of the class. Shop Here for Shoes of Collegiate Excellence Buster Brown Shoe Store CAMPUS BUILEIII\U 'i Make-up committee for movie meet ;it important meeting this after noon at 5, in 101 journalism build ing. All members of the upper division military department are requested to attend a luncheon in honor of General Ilowland and his aid to be held in the new men’s dormi tory at 1:2:15 today. Owing to Mr. Thaclier’s illness, his classes will not meet today. He will probably meet them tomor ro iv. Tlieta Sigma Phi will have a luii elieon meeting at the Anchorage today. Men’s and Women’s freshman de bate squads t meet today at 112:45 in front of Friendly hall for Ore gano pictures. Alpha Kappa Delta meeting Thurs day evening at 8 o’clock at Kappa Alpha Tlieta. Pi Lambda Theta social hour Wed nesday at 4 o’clock in the Wo man’s room Woman's build ing. * Christian Science organization at University of Oregon holds its regular services tonight at 8:00 in” the Warner Museum library, third floor of the Woman’s build ing. All connected with the uni versity are invited to attend. Big Sister Captains meet at 4:ISO in Woman’s building today. \ cry imports nt. Mathematics club party Wednesday night, 8 o’clock, at the home of Prof, DeCou at <>'_’!» Hilvard 8t. Delphian Club will meet tonight at s o’clock at the Three Arts club. Thespians will meet tomorrow at 7:.'10. Amphibian—very important prac tice in Woman's building 7:110 tonight. The Ambler Yesh'rd.vv we saw: PETE HAMILTON and SPEN CER. RAYNOR setting out muskrat traps . . . WALT EVANS getting his reservations in early for "Gay Puree” . . . THORNTON SHAW looking and hoping for a change of weather . . . EMMA,JANE RORElt looking as happy as ever . . . KEN ED1CK trying to sing . . . 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