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University of Oregon, Eugene ARDEN X. PANGBORN, Editor LAURENCE R. THIELEN, Manager EDITORIAL BOARD W. E. ilcmi>8tea<l Jr.Assoc. Editor Leonard Hagstrom.Assoc. Editor Arthur Schoeni.Managing Editor UPPER NEWS HTAFT Carl (ircRory .Aust. ManaRin^ junior Donald Johnston .’.Feature Editor Serena Mauacii .Literary Editor Joe risepey .Sports Suitor Dorothy Baker .„.Society Editor Leonard Delano ..P. I. p. Editor t/iureiut' vjiixw ..nantup uuivur Jo Stofiel.Secretary New* and Editor Phone 066 EDITORIAL STAFF DAY EDITORS: Vinton Hall, Lawrence Mitchcjmorc, Serena Madsen, Carl Cregory, Elaine Crawford; Mary Klemm, assistant. NIGHT EDITORS: Itex 'fussing chief: Fred Bcchill, Victor Kaufman, Charles Barr, Barney Miller, Mildred Dobbins. ASST. NIGHT EDITORS: Julia Currie, John Dodds, Ralph Morfitt, Beatrice Bennett, Jean German, Jo Barry, Ralph Yergen, Alyce Cook, Dave Totton, Thornton Shaw. GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORTERS: Ralph Millsap, La Wanda Fcnlason, Mar garet Clark, Wilfred Brown, Mary McClean, Harry Tonkon. SPORTS STAFF: Delbert Addison, Alex Tamkin, Joe Brown, Fred Schultz, Harry Van Dine, Warren Tinker, Harold Fraundorf. REPORTERS: Mary Klemm. Myron Griffin, Lester McDonald, Maryhelen Koupal, Cleta McKennon, Audrey Henrickacn, Margaret Reid, Alire Gorman, T. Neil Taylor, Willis Duniway, Lois Nelson, Dorothy Thomas, Dorothy Kirk, Carol Hurlburt, Phyllis VanKimmel, David Wilson, Aileen Barker, Flint* Schroedor, Osborne Holland, John Dodds, Henry Lumpce, Lavina Hicks, Merlin Blais, Rex Tussing. BUSINESS STAFF Wili;am If. Hammond Associate Manager George Weber Jr.Foreign Adv. Manager Dorothy Ann Warnick... Asst. Foreign Mgf. Phil Hammond.fierviee Dept. Ruth Creager.Secretary-Cashier Charles Reed...Advertising Manager Richard Horn.Asst. Adv. Manager Harold Kester.Anat. Adv. Manager Ted Ho’vitt.Circulation Manager Larry Jackson.Asst. Circulation Mgr. murgaret jroornian.iwgr. ^necaing L/epu Business Office Phone 1895 ADVERTISING .SALESMEN: Addison Brockman, Larry Wiggins, Ernmajane Rorer, Bernard Clapperton, William Cruikshank. Elaine Henderson, Bob Holmes, Ina Tremblay, Betty Hagen, Margaret Underwood. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Harry Hanson, Dorothy Jones, Carol Hurlburt, Kathryn Perigo, Julianne 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 cf the Pacific Inter-collegiat^ Press. Entered in the post office at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates, |2.60 a year. Adver tising rates upon application. Residence phone, manager, 2799. Jo Sfbficl, secretary. Day Editor This Issue— Mary Frances Dilday Night Editor This Issue— Mildred E. Dobbins Asst. Night Editor This Issue—Jean Carman Mothers of Oregon Demand New Infirmary From Legislators Although th<“ board of regents decided got to ask for a legislative appropriation for buildings this year, Hit; mothers of students in the university have taken the bull by the horns of their own accord and are demanding of the legislators an ap propriation of $50,000 for a new infirmary. Unquestionably the student body is grateful for this enthu siastic and unexpected support in a year which is not to be especially lucrative so far as funds are concerned. A resolution has passed the Senate to have the 0. S. ('. and the University of Oregon submit a bonafide list of students picking the fruits of higher education in Oregon, with their addresses finally verified. It is designed to ascertain the number of out-of-state students receiving higher education at Oregon expense. A much larger number of students from Cor vallis fall under this non-residence category; the state college does not particularly approve of the idea, Hut this investigation is both timely and scientific. If Oregon institutions are educating students whose homes are out side of Oregon, and who are not all paying extra fees, this should be considered. Significant light may be shed on the inequality of millage a ppropriat ions. The bill to probJ' residential status of students in liijgone and Corvallis is some oompeusation for the fact that the State college and the university agreed not to ask for building funds. 0. S, C. does not need new buildings. Oregon does. O. S. C. has more out-of-state students who do not actually reside in Oregon, as the legislative committee will discover. So there you are. It looks like an even shake. Regardless of these controversial details, the legislators should lend their ears to pleas of the mothers for a new in firma ry. Enrollment Increase 94 Per Cent; Appropriations 13 Per Cent K.V not appealing to the legislature of the state of Oregon lor much needed building funds, the university regents sacri (ieed a good deal in the interests of the commonwealth at large. While no direct appropriation for building funds are qsked >1.V the regents, and no bills will be put into the hopper except 'or a research appropriation and an appropriation for facility vensions, it is worthwhile to point out some of the figures “hieh indicate the disproportionate growth in number id' stu vents as compared to increase of funds for instruction and tacilit ies. The biennial report of the university regents recently pub lished shows that 10,87!! persons received instruction through the institutions’ organization in l!)’J7-£fci. ;l,12S were taught on the campus in regular school year, Kilo in summer sessions, h’.'il in Portland medical school, and 'J.tiSti by correspondence! As the Morning Register puts it, "our university has become a very large concern. ” In the eight years since lll'dlt, when the present millage tax law became elteetive, the enrollment has increased t-i;!. t per cent while the millage revenues increased onlv 1° I per cent. Kslimate made by the regents predicts that by the end of next year, enrollment will have increased !»l per cent with an increase of millage income of only Ufa per cent. Do these figures mean anviliing? They mean that in spite of rigid economy, the appropriations available are onlv 1. 'l.b per cent higher than eight years ago and the number of students to be educated has increased .nearly eight times as fast, or !• I per cent. I'V I % rculJM y x ’ The Emerald in not |>ul>itsliiuj' several eommuiiit at ions regarding the linil luvi ll torture ou China lie muse tlio writers Iijim' forjjolleu tlie nilo I lull no letters lo the eilitor will lie run if I In*\ reach ovor li00 Monls. These must also lio signed with the lull nanii' of lhe writer. DISLIKES SPEECH To tlie Editor: 1 ilcsiro to comment ou Mr. (truth well 'h sju'i'i li on t'liiiiii last Tliurs day. EnaiiiM' I am an urioiital ami I knijw Hie Chinese wi ll, ill inv noli silt inn. tlio s|ieeeh is not justified. Not 111 u I I desire to bear Mr. t • r;i I h well sjaeali of the glen ami grand ear of China, lint time ami tijjaiu I liave heard foreign speakers who tried to present other eoipitrios "'hie It tiio\ have .soi'ii tor a woo bit ol time, which ns a result, they pre soul only one siilo, the bad oue. " li.it did Mr. (irathwell trv to t> II the audience.’ The realistic t limn.’ No. Ho totit of the uufor (uuato Chiun, the land whore the loreij'ii devils are bori uy in. Ho is inducing other nations to join the toast. 1 have boon isi China for a woo hit ot time, mil it, and 1 do uot repudiate the roalit> of Mr. (irath | "ell's statement, but instead add 'hat the treatment of the Chinese I j I*10 toreijjuers is even worse! , Ihau lie told. I have been following and study iny t hi mi w i t h o n t prejudice; through personal association with i the Chinese peopb' by reading and! hearing tarts. I do not approve of j •!" foreign uoritpution of China. If the foreigner wants to toarh the J Chinese to gtnerti or to improve I their morals he should let them du the work. If foreigners refuse the control of government to the Chi nese, until they are able to have a good government, how can they show their ability if they arc not allowed to try? Mr. Orathwell tried to arouse his audience so that America -will send battleships to China. But—he won’t get it. He tried to show that China is a horrible place, and that foreign ers have the right to govern and bully it- But if China has short comings, there is also beauty and a dream of hope for the Chinese if left alone. Mr. Orathwell did not speak of the present movement in China. Why? There is something he is trying to hide. M.V only wish is laissez faire for China. BKN PADILLA. I To tho 9‘litor: I Are Oregon Traditions a farce* j Are Oregon Traditions only for | freshmen? No! J Then are sophomores who wear | cords to be tolerated! Are the sophomores who wear j mustaches to go unpunished! i What of the individual of second ! year rank who chooses to wear both ! | The individual who ( booses to defy j Oregon traditions, the Order of the ‘O’, the Oregon Knights and last, but by far from the least, disgrace j the junior ( lass, and the honorable senior class! Are the traditions only for affil j iated men, who must be punished I because of the pressure back of the i affiliation ! Are independent men exempt from ! the traditions! Have not the Order of the ‘O’ and the Oregon Knights power enough to make traditions equal? —M. A. T. DOESN’T LIKE TALK j To the Editor: Did t hear Ham Grathwell’s talk ini China Thursday, at assembly? 1 Vos, every word and thought his j talk was flavored with sea and ! home-sick shadows, saying nothing ! of his positive assertions, i Mr Grathwell was in China five , months. Many whom I know have lived in China for years and enjoy ! returning there. Home we know were born there and spent much of their most impressionable years in that interesting country. As he said, there are beggars and thieves there. So are these in our country. Some in rags, others in mansions where they live, some ignorant, others with brains and education, which they use to “get the better of the other ITIlow,” be he an individual or a | corporation. Mr. Grathwell told of the filth land crowded conditions in China. | Do not other countries have, filth and slums! We should look at home j before we condemn to such uu exug j gerated extent. j lie spoke of the junks and house j boats, how that many had in each, 1 children, parents, and grand child j rou, also of the stench and filth j but forgot to add that many had plants and flowers growing to make I lie place seem home like. -—E.H. Turning.. Back Pages lu Campus History That Tell Ilow Tim Collegians Used to Act. _ I Fifteen Years Ago From Oregon Emerald dan. _7, l'Ml An effort is being made on the campus by several students and faculty members to organize a chops club, with the eventual purpose of arranging tournaments with other universit ies., Members of that august body, (lie faculty, plan to effect an organiza tion that will turn out teams to compete with varsity and class teams, in basketball and baseball par tic ularlv. * * » Tin- .juniors mol seniors art* in re ceipt lit ;i challenge to debate from the freshman and-sophomore classes, said contest to take place on some date later than April it, lull. Twenty-live Years Ago From Oregon Weekly l'ol>. S. 1(10-1 The Imskelliall game xvifli O. A. < at the Armory Friday nigh! was followed by a very enjoyable day re after the carnage of the battle had been cleared a way. # * * I’ho annual local oratorical contest "ill In- held in Vitlard hall Friday evening. There are eight entries, utoI ot these two "ill la- chosen to represent the university at other con test s. The Ambler fVcsterday we saw: FAFL i.l'V minus a shave . . . M A It 1 lit t- VII being democratic . . . liKl'll All Kf{ w ith her feet in the air ... It. DAY i-HlNTKK biting his finger nails . . . MAK.IOlilK LAN Dili' and her fur lined gloves . . . JOHN sell K 1>’FKK helping a lair maiden in distress . . . KUNA l.t.I.IA liKI.I. propounding <|Ues tions . . . HA HOLD KFfcVl’KK yawn ing in class . . . MKKLYN FKAN tls MAYtIKK scratching his ear . . . t'l.AKKNt’L (.’HAW looking im portant. DUCK * ! * i * * TODAY’S PUTRID PUN “ mahogany” ********* I don’t faed mahogany * thing. * ********* * •* * AUNT DUCKL1E j Dear Aunt Ducklic, Could you toll me if the big cam ; pus lover, Noel Thomas, ever visits |'the iiouse by the mill race anymore? I’ Jean Adix. jUear Jean, No, Edwina is getting along too I well with her “Plying Dutchman” | friend at present to worry about “Santa* Claus.” Aunt Ducklic. iJEsEL I WOULD LIKE TO SEE: Dr. Ernst do a Russian boot dance. William Scheinbaum skip rope. Mr. Moll minus his mustache. “Vic” Wetzel in an apron. Dr. Reinhardt without his fur coat. President Hall on the campus. An Emerald delivered on time. WELL, AT LAST WE’VE FOUND T1IE PERFECT EXAM PLE OF BROADMINDEDNESS by arriving breathlessly at the equip ment window of the men’s gyui and being refused our suit—AH YES, IT WAS 5:15.2 AND THE WIN DOW CLOSES PROMPTLY AT WE WONDER: It' Harriet Arena over hurries. What Helen Mcljraney does with out Dud. What Marshall Dronwell does at the D. G. house. Why Dorothy Bell is so pale, late ly,—when Merrill Hagan smiles. If Hr. Lesch lias changed hi? ! mind eoneerniug Oregon girls. I If the Alpha Chi’s pay board at the Oregana. It' Bill Gillette ever kept quiet for d minutes. If Fee Reynolds is all “white.” Why we arc writing this. —A. & L. Dear Cook, We are just married and father promised to buy us a house if we could tell him the difference be tween a cynic and a stoic. Can you , help us? Adam & Eve. Dear Adam i Kve, A cynic is the place where you wash dishes and a stoic is the bird what brings babies. -—L. E. 8, THERE WILD BH A TEN M1N UTK QUIZ. 1’LEASE PUT YOUR NOTE BOOKS ASIDE “Oil Those Few Occasions When College Men Are Gentlemen.” (Ad In Emerald to sell tuxes to wear at a dance.) Oiv-iiw, that truth hurts. We never go to dances.' TODAY’S DUCK SQUP PROBE Wr recommend that a probe be made of the health conditions of the Pioneer. He has worn the .same clothes for years without taking them off. THE COOlv Debaters Hurl Puns In Hectic Encounter NTANKOliD VMVKKS1TY, Jan. j '-"t. (l’.l.l'.i Stanford out-punued V. S. C. to win an audience decision j in tlie annual Cardiual-Tpojan do tiate lield on the Stanford campus Monday night. Advertising slogans! were hurled back and forth across I lie phi (form in an attempt to prove that modern advertising is more detrimental than beneficial to so ciety. The men from Troy threw consternation into the ranks of the: 'Stanford team when they asked if the Cardinal debaters would adver tise if they entered business. Heurv Harris answered them in liis rebut-, tal speech with, “Geutlemeii, if you «er>. iu hell, would you roust*’’ THE COLLEGE WATCH i ^ It Tells; the College Times J:_ ---By LBONABD p. DELANO A little side glance during this great era of intellectual advance ment (f) and college education is an article in a recent issue of the Daily Californian, the Berkeley house organ, with a head reading thus, “Gay Paree Nearing Finish of Pine itun.” Note the word “Fine.” A local wit on the Oregon campus, in remarking about the Htanford movie, “The Fast Male,” declares he would rather be the fast male than the slow freight. (If that means anything). “Think of being dropped by this now university of the air that just started up iu the East^” gravely comments the University of Min nesota Daily. The waltz has been coming back for eight years now. It must have been a long way off, remarks a con temporary. * * * Lay off my Ford! This might have been the caption of a letter published recently in the Idaho Argonaut and asking that students leave a certain college-educated “tin chariot” alone. The irate com municator handles his pen in the following terse manner: “Will you kindly place in the columns of your paper the request that the gang lay off my Ford car parked in front of my home, 130 South Polk street, license number 97113. “It appears to me that whenever anything is needed for other cars they pick uu my car and remove whatever is desired. “Last evening the windshield was removed, and as you know the weather is somcwliat cold and the shield conies in very handy. The local Ford agency will be getting after pie fur supplying spare parts for Ford cars in this territory.” Wo have learned that the College Humor is being boycotted by mid west universities because it yloes.not reflect actual college life and we decided to use the column this issue to do some reflecting of that sort. "Why do Women Go To College? Asks Article; University Men Differ i Work, Freedom, Maternity Girls’ Desire for Future “Why -In women go to college?” asks Bessie Bunzel in ;i recent tippy of the Century. “Is there some ob | score reason why women whose ten dency is a-way from the usual di rection of marriage and' maternity choose professional training and tho I pursuit of a career ?” I University of Oregon men find fault with Miss Bun/.el’s question without waiting for her answer. “There arc only two reasons why women go to college,” said one first year man. ‘‘They go to get married, call it ‘tu find a mate’ if this is for publication. The other reason is to take care of any possible excep tions.” It was an assistant in chemistry who said, “The women who expect to marry only for intellectual eoui i panionship are those who aro ab normal—have no appeal otherwise.” Thu article half agrees with him: “The purely intellectual impetus ■ held no appeal for any but the most independent, intelligent anil strong minded. And such girls are not typ ically the marrying kind. Probably i unconsciously most of the intense* interest in knowledge per se was but a method of copying with a mis understood and only vaguely defined unrest. Dissatisfied, incomplete lives and a- vivid feeling of tho futility of existence have always been present.” That it is now a common occurence for women to go to college to many, Miss Bunzeli agrees. But she also finds that only about fifty per cent of women graduates marry and that their families average less than two children each. Aside from non-fi nancial factors, the college girl is apt to be very critical of men; and they, in turn, fear her superior men tal attainments. “I wouldn’t marry,” declares ope sophomore, “unless 1 made enough extra money to compensate for any loss of income by mv wife. 1 may be out-of-date, but I would waut her home, not dragging back from work to make us two tired people together. And I may he selfish, but I wouldn’t | want to bow to her higher judg ment—condescension, you know.” “Tho seclusion and artificiality uf the woman's college,” continues the article, “at the critical moment of maturity, places her in a cloistered world of women. Opportunities to meet men are more or less curtailed: so instead of normal heterosexual relationships, her contacts for four j years are predominantly feminine] and consequently uuwholesomely one ! sided. ” “The modern college) woman is! mentally sound—her psychological j and biological studies equip her well 1 enough,” one Oregon man argues. "Ou tho contrary,” retorts another, this t'mio a junior, “you'll find that many leave this school with but a half formed idea uf true relation ships.” The junior is right according to -Miss Bunzeli. "Though a knowledge of the laws ol sex is so all-impor tant, Hi) other subject is more foggv io the minds of many college- gradu ates. There is good reason for be lieving that much of the uou-mar riugo of college women is directly due to the ignorance which exists regarding their own biological make up.” If une would believe Miss Bunzeli. ! E.C. Meade Optometrist 14 StU A\ e. \V. Phone UJ.Lt S. C. END1COTT Dentist Phone .id t Miner Bidg. Eugene, Oregon who is a graduate of Barnard, who holds a master’s degree from (Jolum bia, and who is now research assist ant to the statistician of the Met ropolitan Life Insurance company, and undoubtedly >vel} qualified; if one would believe undergraduate men of the University of Oregon whose qualifications may be doubt ed; then one must believe that wo men who go to college intend tu marry, or else, through abnormality or ignorance, choose a profession. To draw together these desires of women—-intellectual work, economic and sexual freedom, and maternity— Miss Bunzell sets herself. “Let us utilize to the utmost every natural impulse of love and service which women possess in order to bring about happier human relationships.” II\IQ.1J1RINC REPORTER. Today’s Question: What do you think ut' -assemblies? Llewellyn floss, senior in animal biology: “I think oceasionully as semblies arc worth while, but usual ly they are boresome; however, I believe assemblies are Worth while ' because once or twice a year there [ are speakers who are quite worth while.” Hobart Wilson, freshman in pre law: “The last one was a good one, but the ones before had been ex ceedingly dry. 1 think it is good training for the freshmen to have to go.” Lueclla Cutliii, freshman in nurs ing: "I’m all for them. The uni i versity always has good speakers who speak of interesting subjects that are worth while. Assembly is a change from their regular work.” Katharine I’ntteiq freshman in journalism: "1 don’t believe assem blies are of much benefit to stu dents. freshmen are compelled to go and those that are not compelled to attend do not.” CAMPUS BULLEII1 Westminster Forum meets ;it 6:30^ Sunday night at Westminster house. Carl Moore is loader. All students invited to attend. The Music Group, sponsored by Phi Theta Upsilon, will meet Sunday at .’> o’clock at 14?>7 iUlyard. The Woman in Iter Sphere group will meet Sunday at 5 o’clock in I lie Sun room of the Woman s build ing. The Miscellaneous Group will meet Sunday at o o’clock in tlie men s smoker of the Woman’s build ing, where Mrs. I'iric W. Allen will speak before the members on the social, political and aesthetic side of international relations. Emerald News Staff., regular bi weekly meeting Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock in lioom 104 of tlio Shack. Pay editors’ meeting at 3:30 p. m. The Play Group, sponsored by l’hi Theta Upsilon, will meet at Y. W. Bungalow Sunday afternoon at 5 for tea. AH members must be present. | By OSBOBNE HOLLAND MCDONALD —“State Street Sadie,” starring Conrad Nagel and Myrpa Lov. An underworld char acter study. Also two vitaphone vaudeville acts, “T|rose Pullman Porters” and “In the Park.” Com ing Sunday, “The Home Towners,” with Doris Kenyon. HBILICt—Tom Tyler in “Thu Buzzard Pirate,” a western drama. Also comedy and news. I REX—Clara Bow and James Hall in “The Fleet's In.” A sailor’s ro mance. Also, “Hot Luck,” a Chris tie comedy and International news. I COLONIAL—“Scarlet Seas,” fea turing Richard Barthelmess and Betty Compson. Also comedy and short subjects. Clara Bow has at last taken Elea nor Olyn’s advice and returned to pictures more suited to her type. Her latest is “The Fleet’s In,” playing for the last time today at the Rex theater. The little “it” girl plays the part of a gold digging hostess in a San Francisco dance hall who fin ally falls in love with a worthless gob and admits it. James Hall, our for mer college kero, has the role of a “seaman with a past,” who steals poor Clara’s heart in true sailor fashion, but without caveman tac tics. Most of the humor is due to the numerous wisecracks accompanying the action and many a good jaw is dislocated in the free for all bat tles waged over the favor of a red haired hostess. The picture was mean! to be funny and the producers didn’t overlook a single opportunity for laughter. Classified WANTED—Tutoring, by experienced teacher, U. of O. graduate. Hfe i cialties, Latin, English Foreign Languages, Elementary Mathe matics. Rates reasonable. Eve nings after (1 o’clock. (Mrs.) Nadie M. Martin, 1(>78 Yitlard St. Phone tKb'L’-J. l-26-‘Jt)-;;<K!I Rapidly Becoming One of Oregon’s Newer Traditions To drop in at the Oregon Service Station and fill the tank with Richfield—the gas that makes the campus crate run like a Rolls Royce. OREGON SERVICE STATION Uth and Hilyard ■ Prove Its Superiority Yourself I I The New A Tho new Eureka with its greatly increased suction and many new improvements sets a new mark for cleaning effectiveness. It cleans like magic rugs, mattresses, uphol stery, and draperies, tiets the deeply em bedded dirt that can t be touched by other methods. Free Demonstration — No Obligation Let us show you in your own home. A tele phone call will bring it. 1 buiatl llowit Baviueuts — Balance Base Terms (Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co. OiU Oak Eugcue Pll011e 1750