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Editorial Page of the Oregon Dailg Emerald University of Oregon, Eugene Arthur L. Schoeni ....-.Editor William H. Hammond..-.Business Manager Vinton Hall ...Managing Editor EDITORIAL WRITERS Ron Hubbfl, Ruth Newman, Rex Tussintf, Wilfred Brown Secretary—Ann Hathaway UPPER NEWS STAFF I Ifary Klemm.. Asst. Mng. Editor Harry Van Dine. Sports Editor Phyllis Van Kimmell . Society Myron Griffin . Literary Victor Kaufman .— P. I. P. Editor Osborne Holland . Feature Editor Italph David .- Chief Nitrht Editor Clarence Craw . Makeup Editor DAY EDITORS: Dorothy Thomas, Elise Schroeder. Mary Francis Dilday, T. Neil Tay lor, and Barney Miller. • , , „ „ n. . GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORTERS: Henrietta Steinke, Merlin Blais, Warren Tinker, Eleanor Jane Bnllantyne, and Willis Duniway. _ NIGHT EDITORS: Carl Monroe, Warner Guiss, William White, Beatrice Bennett, Rufus Kimball. ^ _ _ .. . ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Louise Gurney, Jack Bellinger, Ted Montgomery, Thornton Gale, Dorothy Morrison. Michael Hogan, Isabelle Crowell, Embert Possum, Helen Rankin, Elinor Henry, Bob Samuels, Clifford Gregor, Helen Jones, John Rogers, Jane Mnnion, Elno Kyle, and Nan Ruonala. _ __ GENERAL NEWS STAFF: Dave Wilson, Betty Anne Macduff. Roy Craft, Henry Lumpee, Barbara Conly, Bobby Reid. Lavina Hicks, Irvin Faria, Lee Coe, John McCulloch, Eugene Mullins, Phyllis Calderwood, Thornton Shaw, Willard Arant. Lois Nelson, Bernice Hamilton, Sterling Green, Betty Harcombe, Anne Bricknell, Janet Fitch, Pete Proctor, and Evelyn Shaner. BUSINESS STAFF George Weber, Jr. Associate Manager , Tony Peterson . Advertising Manager I Addison Brockman . Foreign Adv. Mgr. | Jean Patrick .... Manager Copy Department Harold Hester . Office Manager Larry Jackaon ... Circuhition Manager I Betty Haven . Women’s Spec. Ailv. Tna TremDlay . Asst. Advertising Mur. Hetty Carpenter.Ass't. Copy Manager Louise (iurney .. Executive Secretary Bernadine Carrico .Service Department Helen Sullivan.Checking Department Fred Reid. Ass t. Circulation Mgr. ADVERTISING SALESMEN: John Painton, Jack Gregg, Margaret Poorman, Harold Short, Harlan Foth, Katherine Laughrige, Auton Hush, Vernon McCluskey; Mar jory Swafford, Nan Crary, George Branstator, Harriett© Hofmann, Carvel Case, and Helen Parker. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Ellen Mills, Carol Werschkul, Marian MacTntyre, Jane Lyon, Nancy Taylor, Beth Thomas, Nora Jean Stewart, Elaine Wheeler, Doris McMor ran, Lee Coe, Edith Sinnott, Vincent Mutton. Edward Kirby, and Gladys Mack. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday, during the col lege year. Member of the Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice, at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. Advertising rates upon application. Phone Manager: Office, 1895; residence, 127. , Day Editor....Mary Prances Dilday Night Editor....William White Assistant Night Editors Jsabelle Crowell, Nan Ruonala, Stanley Wickham Football Enlists Psychology TNTO THE dusty galleries of time has gone the idea that foot hall is a game of brute strength, galloping legs and knock down-and-d rag-out steam-rolling. Today the coach on the eve of a great battle unfolds his bag of tricks, winks an eye or two and proceeds to dig out of it all manner of voodoos, diablerie, and occult arts, lie conjures up his psychology to help put the team on edge and to incite their spirits to mayhem and malefic deeds against the prodigal foe. Pep talks before the game, while the team is in the dressing room, are supplemented with psychic stimuli, aimed to build up morale ami produce the mental attitude which makes the football field a battle ground in their minds and the enemy an evil to be eradicated. Calling pre-game pep rallies, posting positive signs where the players can see them, playing war-like music on the eve of the battle, showing the warriors reels of football moving pic tures—-all these are psychologically aimed to create the menta^ set which will curb anything but the victory spirit. The players are dealt with as mere molecules of the human species. Instilling in these hulks fhe determination to win is half the coach’s job. A few good plays, plus a little deception, plus a half-ton line, plus a fast, hip-throwing backfield and you have a football team. Add to that the intangible “spirit*’ which coaches try to work up before crucial games they are “pointed” for and you have a winning football team. There is a. time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is sui cide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil be stowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. Emerson, who said those words, evidently once went through that stage of life’s indecision where a student tries to decide whether or not to eontinuq his major. • Co-eds were used exclusively to put over the yearbook drive back at Minnesota because of their better sales ability. Some times it is hard to put up a sales resistance to a pretty co-ed, as we have discovered in recent charitable fund drives, and after they have gone it often leaves a bad mental set against such methods of filling the gold bin. Nature might have made things a little better if she had made an empty head as uncomfortable as an empty stomach. - Campus Forum - All letters to the editor which run over 200 words in length will be cut down at the discretion of the editor or else not run at all. Students writing them should re member this rule. MID-TERM GRAV ES To the Editor: Now that mid-terms lamenta tions again are with us, may I sug gest a cause for our unfortunate grades, that everyone seems to have overlooked? Some blame the student's unstudiousness, others condemn the pedagogue’s inhu manity; whereas the real trouble lies in the intrusion of the instruc tors personality upon the mind of the eager seeker after knowledge, crowding out the scheduled course of study. How can I grasp the salient points of a zoology lecture when the piercing blue glance and the fascinating vocabulary of the lec turer continually diverts my in terest ? What care I for diminishing re turns or aleatory elements, if, as the Econ. prof discourses after the bell has rung. X am delight edly watching the suave discipline with which he forces the overhasty departers back to their seats. Can one separate Free Will from Fatalism while wondering why the prof blushed just then, and how any being past six years of age could possibly look so innocent as he sometimes does? Now I know I'm on the right track, and not depending upon introspection alone to prove my theory (even though it is an accredited system for study of social phenomena), for I have noticed that in this sociology class whenever students wish to give point to their arguments, they talk about the good-looking prof's cravats, which evidently impinge upon their senses to the exclusion of ull else. KNOW-IT-ALL. PAY COLLEGE ATHLETES? To the Editor: I favor compensating the par ticipants in our college sports for their efforts. This is not a barren plea for professionalism. It is an attempt to secure what is justly coming to them. Our athletes faithfully train abide by strict, regulations and have to sacrifice in meeting the university schedule. Their studies suffer even with the best of ef forts. They barter their freedom and forego their pleasures that mighty Oregon may live in cher ished traditions; that the spirit of our Alma Mater may fly be fore the breeze and guide our ships across this perilous sea. They struggle that we may live with golden memories. Oh, students, will be let our dear old Alma Ma ter bow in submission before the ghosts of defeat. —Blayne Brewer. LEMON WE ARE ALMOST READY TO OPEN THE JOURNALISM JAM JAR, SO OET YOUR SPOONS READY. At this time we will introduce the new “Exam” song—entitled “I'll Get Ey.” (Then follows the little "pony” song, “As Long As I Have You.”) I). W.—Doctor, rin a little hoarse today an— Doc. Romig—Ych, well go buy yourself a set of harness. * * if We see by the papers that “Squeek” Parks is in charge of the A. T. O. noise float. No won der someone has been robbing all the mouse traps lately. * * * Oh, yes, by the whey, Izzy the inventor declares he has at last developed the perfect self sup porting hose for the co-ed, lined with flypaper. (Don't crowd, girls.) * * * Society Note—There are truck loads of good looking women in the halls this year—just ask the man who phones one. s{e * * Remember, the less clothes you wear to the Journalism Jam the more room there’ll be to dance. DITTY TO DAD Oh, I’ve taken my grades as I got them, Ajid I've snored and I’ve snick ered in class, I’ve never even heard the assign ments, And the prof, says I never can pass; There’s six hundred pages of his tory And no use, I can plainly see, So I’ll write to my dad of the troubles I’ve had, And he’ll learn about college from me! K. W. & CO. TODAY’S PUTRID PIJN "Discuss.” Cop—What’s the matter, miss? "Discuss" tried to embrace me. « * * HEARD IN CONDON Will Doc. Boyer please return “The Specialist”? * * * Along about this time of the year we find the college boy and girl taking his toothpaste and hair oil down to the safety deposit vaults until after the sack of home (coming). * * * Uh huh, she's one of them Laun dry girls. \reh, how come? Take her out to eat and she cleans ya. * * * Mr. Fox E. McDonald (theatre) is still offering those box seats for the best contribution. Let’s get off the lead and scrape some real dirt for H. C. * * * Eve: Why so restless, Adam? Adam: Dawgonit, I used poison ivy for my winter overcoat. —Punch Bowl. * * * Mrs. M.: Don’t you stay in the room when your daughter has company any more? Mrs. D.: No, I'm trying the honor system. —Tar Baby. * * * PREPARE FOR THE JOUR NALISM JAM IF YOU HAVE TO JOIN THE BOY SCOUTS, AND REMEMBER, THE SIL LIER YOU LOOK THE MORE CHANCE YOU HAVE OF WIN NING A SCHOLARSHIP IN THE STATE SCHOOL FOR HALF WITS. Joseph Hackman, University of Tennessee halfback, entered the university without ever having seen a team he played on de feated. This is his sixth year of football. Oregon Editors Announce Dates For Conference Press Association To Hold Meetings Here in February Dates for Ihe annual Oregon Press Conference have been defi nitely set for February 6, 7, and 8, according to Dean Eric W. Al len, of the school of journalism. This announcement was made fol lowing a conference between the dean and Earle Richardson, ’20, president of the Oregon Press as sociation and editor of the Dallas Itemteer-Obsenrer. The conference will be held on the campus, and newspaper men from all over the state will be present. Mr. Richardson is com ing to Eugene in a few weeks for another conference with Dean Allen, at which, a program com mittee will be chosen and other details arranged. ¥C%E ‘‘Father, why are the students carrying their books to class to day? They never did it before.” “They have exams today, my son.—Wag Jag. Polly: Look! Look! Our team is on the ten-yard line. Molly: That's nothing; their team is, too.—Pitt Panther. She: Don’t you just love nights like these? He: No, sometimes I study— Octopus. He: Ah, there little piano! She: And why piano? He: You wouldn’t be so grand if you were perfectly upright.— Voo Doo. Kris: Josephine may be buxom, but she certainly has poise. Kringle: Yes, you bet she has— I avoirdupois.—Virginia Reel. “How do you like that phono graph record?” "Much better than the one you had last year.” -—Brown Jug. CMtim BULLETIN CHRISTIAN SCIENCE OR GANIZATION will hold their reg ular meeting tonight at 7:30 in the Y. W. C. A. bungalow. K VV A M A OREGANA picture will be taken today at 12:30 in front of Friendly hall. PI LAMDA THETA will meet in front of Friendly hall today at 2:30 for Oregana picture. DAY EDITORS meet today in managing editor’s office, at 4 o'clock. HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES of the girl's rally committee will meet today at 4 o’clock in Room 104, Johnson hall. MEMBERS OF SIGMA DELTA CHI AND THETA SIGMA PHI will meet this afternoon at 4 o’clock in the newspaper room of the Journalism building to discuss plans for the Jamboree. Impor tant. PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT Chi Delta announces the pledg ing of Madia Ehlers. BLUE BELL PRODUCTS BUTTER—ICE CREAM PASTEURIZED MILK We Appreciate Your Patronage Eugene Farmers Creamery 568 Olive Phone 638 DR. J. R. WETHERBEE Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Office Phone 1601 Residence 1230-M 801-2.3 Miner Bldg. Eugene, Oregon Phone 25 BROWNIE BEAUTY SHOP Ringlette Permanent Wave $7.50 Be- sure and make your ap pointments either by phone or calling at the Mezzanine floor of Carrol-Davis Phar macy. “Registered Operators’’ Be Prepared Have a Fresh Film Ready to Snap the OLD GRADS at HOMECOMING For Best Results Urine; Your Films to Eugene’s Only Exclusively Kodak Finishing Plant Carl R. Baker FILM SHOP 7th and Willamette Street With Your Favorite Author Trv Th is * L a \asicle u$ V00 A M y A each week tor books. By the end of the year your little library will be your choicest pos session. You’ll have that glorious feel ing that education is taking. You’11 love your b^oks. “Ask the man who owns one.” THE NEW $1.00 EDITIONS ARE SUPERB . . . SEE THEM ON THE BOOK BALCONY OF die The Ambler YESTERDAY WE SAW . . . the S. A. E.’s working on their sign ... a bunch of piggers ! on the iibe steps . . . BOB KEE- I NET engaging in polite prattle j with two females . . . KATHRYN I PERIGO trying to make a recita- j tion . . . VERNE ELLIOTT giving ' his public a treat by putting on a tennis match for their benefit . . . RON HUBBS enthusiastically giving him his support . . . the R. O. T. C. boys suffering in their “monkey suits.” GREEN COLLEGE CHAP IS SIMILAR TO FROG (Continued from Fnge One) feet, American students would doubtlessly call loudly for a “stein of beer,” laboring under the im pression that they had the correct word for the true foreign atmos phere. A German, Dr. Schmidt said, would be considerably puz Doggone! Much as we’d like to, we won’t be able to deliver any food on either Friday or Saturday. There’ll he too many people flocking in here fill the time. JACK STIPE all bundled up Phone The zled at this. Stein means rogk— | nothing more. If the student still insisted, movie fashion,~on the'cor- 1 rect theme song, he should resort to the true ‘‘deutsch” and say "ein Stein-Krug,” meaning, a stone mug. “Professor Kluge, of the Uni versity of Freiburg, wrote an ex cellent book of etymological ex pressions, and a book of German student slang,” Dr. Schmidt said. “No doubt many American slang expressions may be found in this book.* Anyway—a frosh is a frosch. OF COURSE— o You want a smartly sophisti cated formal, yet reasonably priced ? Then— Phone 312, or Call at 204 Peterson Apts. For Further Information. Pledges PLEASE NOTICE Perhaps your family, too, is planning to give you your pin for Christinas, so of course you’d rather wait until after Christmas to order it, and still you will want it right away lor the winter term initiations. Bristow’s solves your problem. Here you can get your pin, either out of stock, or your order will be received in a week. To the Students, Family, and Administrative Staff of tin- University of Oregon: It is your privilege today to become a member of, or to renew your membership in, the American Red Cross. In exercising this privilege you become enlisted for an other year in what is. perhaps, the greatest of all modern humanitarian enterprises. The American Red Cross makes no terms, signs no armistice, with poverty, suffering, fire, storm or flood. Wherever men, women, or children are overwhelmed with disaster of whatsoever sort, there stands the Red Cross to give help or protection by proxy for you. You who join are the American Red Cross. Its trained workers are your servants who fall only when you fail. JOIN THE RED CROSS. Faculty Committee of the Red Cross. Accepted Socially Grads, we are surely glad to see you once again and hope that in some way we can make your visit more welcome. . . . During this Homecoming the Peter Pan is at your disposal for your social center so you can meet your old and new friends. Peter Pan CAFE crackles out loud with crispness! Have you discovered the world’s crispiest cereal? It’s new. It’s so crisp that it pops and crackles in the bowl when milk or cream is added. Kellogg’s Rice Krispies are light, golden-brown bubbles that taste like toasted nut meats. Try them tomorrow. They’ll add new enjoyment to your breakfast. Particularly good with fruit or honey added. And Rice Krisnies are delicious right out of the package. KaMuyffcs RICE KRISPIES RICE KRISPIES Ready to eat The most popular cereals served in the dining-rooms of American colleges, eating clubs and fra ternities are made by Kellogg in Battle Creek. They include Corn 1'lakes, ALL-BRAN', Pep Bran I’lakes. Wheat Krumbles, and Kellogg’s Shredded Whole Wheat Biscuit. Also Kaffee Hag Coffee t.:e coftee that lets you sleep.