EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD
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University of Oregon, Eugene
Arthur I*. Srhocnl . Editor
William H. Hammond . Business Manager
Vinton Hall . Managing Kditor
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Ron ITnlilis, Ruth Nr*wnnan, R**x TushIw?, Wilfred Brown
Secretary -Ann Hathaway
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llarry Van Dine . Sports Editor
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Osborne Holland . Feature Editor
Ralph David .. Chief Night Editor
Claience Craw . Makeup Editor
Cicorye Weher, Jr.
Tony Peterson .
Addison Brockman
Jean Patrick .
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.Advertising Manager
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The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Asso
ciated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily
except Sunday and Monday, during the college 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 jpon application. Phone, Man
ager: Office, 1895; residence, 127.
Day Editor .T. Neil Taylor
Night Editor .William White
Assistant Night Editors
Nan Ruonala, Wayne Anderson
Evading the Light
NEAR the close of fall term Panhellenic took
atepa towards a change in policy that la de
serving of commendation. Not a radical change
in itaelf but one expressive of the ever-increasing
democracy in student government. Heretofore upon
the releasement of a pledge from a house there is
sent out a little card merely announcing the oc
currence, taking no responsibility for disclosing
whether it was the house or the girl who was dis
continuing membership.
To eliminate leaving half of the story untold
it was suggested that the wording be changed on
the release cards to include this information.
Though this appears to be a concession on the part
of an organization whose primary purposes are the
protection of their own fair names, it is only the
just and sensible thing to uo.
That a pledge finds she is unable to fit in with
a certain group should not be used against her in
any way. Possibly it is to her credit and still not
to the discredit of the house. In the question of
who is to be hurt worse, the organization comprised
of several members is more able to bear the tem
porary brunt, than the girl a more permanent dis
grace.
Whether or not this change passed in the judg
ment of the body is not known to the writer. The
Emerald's representative was denied the privilege
of attending its secret meetings.
Realizing the value of sympathetic understand
ing with its policies, the Interfraternity council not
only allows, but welcomes representatives of the
Emerald to attend its meetings. Panhellenic would
do well to recognize the power of the press to make
or break and follow the lead of the fraternities.
—R. N.
Fraternity Discussion Groups
'T'HE question has been again asked fraternities,
“Do you want discussion groups or not?” A
year ago two houses were brave enough to vote
“no”; the rest turned in “ayes,” indicating that
they really meant them or were merely afraid to
be “different,” This year five houses voted “no.”
There can be no question as to the merit of
these after-dinner fireplace talks in fraternity
houses- to some people. But the majority of the
men in the houses stayed and listened to the dis
cussions when they were little interested in the
talking and had more urgent lessons to get. Bene
fits derived are few when attendance is unwilling
and forced.
Sometimes the speakers were interesting and
sometimes not. It is undoubtedly hard to find a
subject interesting to everyone and the speakers
may be commended for succeeding as well as they
did.
But the question still remains: “Are there going
to lie good discussions this term or not?” While the
idea is notable, the plan was not widely successful.
Fraternities should have strength enough in their
own beliefs to signify them one way or another,
whether or not they happen to be in the same
direction as tho rest of the herd. Then, if the vote
is favorable, the value of such discussion groups
will be raised.
Houses that vote against having speakers
should not be asked to reverse their decisions.
Whether it indicates anything or not, ttie word is
that both fraternities voting against having speak
ers last year ranked at the top of the grade list
for men.
Not Only the Cups
A7TCE-PRESIDENT BURT BROWN BARKER
^ has presented more than two scholarship cups
to the student living organizations with his dona
tion of the Vice-Presidential Scholarship Awards
for every men’s and every womens social group
on the campus.
He has given adequate recognition to the scho
lastic leaders in giving them their full reward
recognition of University leadership instead of
Greek-letter eminence.
He has given dormitories and clubs a measure
of self-confidence. They have worked for equal
ranking, have earned it, and have been awarded it.
And he has made possible the action of the ad
ministration in setting a time most suitable for the
awards -in the same year that it is earned, and
in a surrounding which has already proved best for
those other high prizes of the year given during
Junior Week-End.
No intent to dispatage the purpose of the pres
ent cup and plaque is possible. But the purpose,
it might be said, has grown, and the" awards have
not.
The Emerald appreciates, for it feels that it
had some hand in the matter, Vice-president
Barker’s award. It appreciates the work of the
administration. And it wishes success to every
organization striving for the cups—now the entire
campus. —R- T.
College and the Muck-Raker
COLLEGES make good news. Liquor parties
and raids, fights between faculty and athletic
barons, paint-slinging parties, or poker parties in
laboratories are gobbled up and splashed on the
daily press in black headlines.
Newspapers justify themselves by saying that
they are not publicity organs for the colleges, and
liquor parties, when interrupted by the law, make
readable news. Their public and reform leagues
about the state like to be set agog by these colle
giate improprieties—they eat it up.
The latest iniquity to creep into public print
was a poker party at the University of Minnesota.
It was held in an engineering laboratory. Poker
games, as such, are not strange and unheard of
things anywhere. But when a college man stoops
to such uneducational pastimes like playing cards,
taking a drink of an intoxicant, or throwing paint
the evef-ready press opens its maw and swallows
the news with avidity.
Unless a person knows college life in reality,
through some intelligent medium or experience, he
is likely to be prejudiced by such news, just as he
is likely to vision college as a madhouse of jazz
dancing, wise-cracking and gin drinking, after hav
ing seen a collegiate movie.
Naturally he does not want to send his son or
daughter away to a school where such human fail
ings are allowed to breed or be condoned. Son and
daughter, reading the papers and laughing at the
movies, also get the wrong impression of college.
Universities cannot be blamed for not giving
out full details of parties being found out or of
other youthful indiscretions within the jurisdiction
of the school. Such publicity is non-constructive,
lends to the creation of a popular, unsympathetic
picture of college and would better be kept behind
the closed doors of inner offices.
Instead of printing a yearbook, Ohio State uni
versity took a moving picture story of the year’s
events from football games to commencement last
June and will distribute the film among the Ohio
high schools. This, no doubt, will put a stop to
the ancient and ossified joke about breaking the
portrait camera lens.
Seniors of the University are minus a class
president and a sergeant-at-arms and have been
for more than a term. Does not this seem to indi
cate something regarding the worth of class offi
cers?
There has been a proposal made to play foot
ball games in the winter term instead of fall. Ap
ples are more expensive and a shortage of apple
cores would be a nice thing for the opposing team’s
bench.
The word “circumference” can be spelled in
390,000,000 ways. In actual practice, circumfer
ence means only one thing—reducing machines.
Sound may be the thing in movies today, but it
all depends upon where the sound comes from—
in front or in back of you.
Back in New York there is a gun-renting agency
that operates just like the “drive-it-yourself” auto
agencies. Soon we can expect successors to the
shoot-it-yoursplf firm, such as throw-’em-yourself
vegetable stores, or study-’em-yourself libraries.
emon
WHO KILLED WHICH?
(By Permission)
In the recent bloody duel fought by Alexander
Shott and I. Will Nott, Nott was shot and Shott
was not. In which case it would have been better
to be Shott than Nott. Of course there wars a
rumor that Nott was not shot, but Shott avows
that he was not, which proves that the shot Shott
shot at Nott was not shot, or that Nott was not
shot notwithstanding.
It was made to appear on trial that the shot
Shott shot, shot Nott, but as accidents with fire
arms are not infrequent, it might have been pos
sible that the shot Shott shot, shot Shott himself,
in which case the whole affair would resolve itself
into its original form and Shott would be shot and
Nott would be not.
Some folks still think, however, that the shot
Shott shot, shot not Shott, but Nott.
In case anyone wishes to tell us who was shot
the Soda Jerker offers a genuine pearl-handled
Mexican hairless toothbrush, for the answer.
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PKO-G ERMA N
Dean Gilbert Why did the Germans spell
"Karl” with a “I<” ?
Deep Silence--?
Gil Because, Great Britain controlled the “c's”
and their hilarity knew no bounds.
We wonder if Eugenics was first founded in
Eugene.
» * *
It has been rumored that a local merchant was
arrested for indecency the other day for running
the following ad:
LADIES GLOVE SILK UNDIES . . . 1 „ OFF
(How terrible!)
» * *
TODAY’S PUTRID PUN
“Finesse” in a sentence.
O, K. Finesse dis train due in New York.
* * *
Now that Norblad is governor we may expect
the Sigma Nu'a to lead the grade list again (?)
this term.
Alpha Delta Sigma meeting Fri
day noon at the Anchorage.
Everybody be present. E. C. Bech
told of Portland, speaker.
Y. YV. C. A. chorus meets for
practice at the bungalow today at
4 p. m.
Phi Beta meeting for members
at 4 p. m. in recreation room of
Susan Campbell hall today.
Crossroads will meet tonight at
the usual time and place.
Oregana advertising staff will
meet this afternoon at 4 :30 in the
Oregana office.
Alpha Delta Sigma luncheon
meeting Friday noon at the An
chorage. Very important.
Cosmopolitan c I u b executive
committee will meet at 4 o’clock
today at the Y hut.
All of football squad meet at 1
o’clock today at old men’s gym
nasium. Important, every man be
there.
F r o s h commission discussion
groups meet today at 4 p. m. at
the usual places. Important busi
ness will come up.
Men’s varsity debate squad will
meet today in room 2, Friendly
hall, at 4 p. m.
Pi Sigma group picture for the
Oregana will be taken today at
12:30 in front of Friendly hall,
regardless of weather conditions.
Christian Science Organization
will meet tonight at 7:30 o’clock
in the Y. W. C. A. bungalow.
Women’s League Council meet
ing tonight at 7:30 in the women’s
lounge room. Important.
Y. M. C. A. Cabinet group pic
ture for the Oregana will be taken
at 12:30 today in front of Friendly
hall, regardless of weather condi
tions.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Tau of Alpha Phi announces the
pledging of Mrs. Margaret Ellen
Gage, Eugene, and Annabel Pow
ell, Manila.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Pi Beta Phi announces the
pledging of Mary Ellison, of Port
land, Oregon.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Alpha Delta of Delta Gamma
announces the pledging of Sally
Cannon of Portland, Oregon.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Chi Delta announces the pledg
ing of Edna Lois Ney of Port
land, and Dorothea Bushnell of
Eugene.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Gamma Phi Beta announces the
pledging of Helen Owens and Joy
Herbert, both of Portland.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Sigma Chi announces the pledg
ing of Hugh Evans of Boring,
Oregon, and Joe Jerot of Eugene.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Alpha Gamma Delta announces
the pledging of Gladys Bentley of
Hillsboro.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Alpha Omicron Pi announces
the pledging of Dorothy Curtis, of
Weiser, Idaho.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Theta Chi announces the pledg
ing of John Rogers of Everett,
Washington.
That freshman is so dumb he
thinks automobiles were invented
in China because they go Honk,
Honk.—Gove City Collegian.
Good Coffee
Is
Unusual
THE OREGANA
CONFECTIONERY
Has It
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Tuxedo
For Young Men
oo
You can’t “get by” with
any old kind of dress
clothes nowadays
YOU HAVE TO BE CORRECT
Wade Bros.
Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
if i Were
Dean of Men
"The first thing I would do
would be to work to put in de
ferred pledging, because I think it
gives a man a better chance. The
freshman just rushes from one
place to the next. He really does
not know what he wants. After
he has been here a year, he knows
which house he wants, and where
he will fit in best.”
—ART SCHOENI.
* * *
“I’d resign.”
—RONALD HUBBS.
* * *
“I’d go at least once a year to
each of the fraternity houses and
talk with the men. I’d try to
make as direct a contact with
each man on the campus as I
could, because I think it would
help the school spirit. Oregon is
just at the size where it is prac
tically impossible to keep up a
fine spirit. I think it’s because
there are too many co-eds.”
—JOHNNY ANDERSON.
* * *
“I’d lift the bans on the dormi
tories and let the students move
out and live where they please.
“I’d install deferred pledging,
because it is fairer to both the
pledge and the fraternity.
“I’d not put a limit to the time
women had to be in—but then, I
guess that’s up to the dean of
women. I’m under a handicap
there.”
Vacant Jobs for Male
Solicitors on Emerald
Tony Peterson, advertising
manager of the Emerald, requests
applicants for several vacant po
sitions as male solicitors for the
Emerald business office. Those
interested are asked to come
around and see him at the busi
ness office any afternoon.
I Is the only thing that
makes it easier to start
the ear in the morning.
Don't mm your disposi
tion when it is so easy to
have the tank filled with
the right kind of gas.
OREGON
—TONY PETERSON.
Winter
Tested
Service Station
GRILLE DANCE
Lee-Duke’s Campus Band
Friday and Saturday
Night
LEE-DUKE’S
I CAFE
I Phone 549 for Reservations
IbEARD’S
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January
Clearance
Sport and Dress
Coats
Half-Price
Winter coats with exclusive
styles with detailed touches of
fur and other trimmings. A
timely sale for the college girl
of coats that, fill every need
of winter term's wintry days.
Smart Dresses
Also Half-Price
Straightline silhouettes, uneven
hemlines and a choice of higli
waisted frocks at an unbeliev
ably low price. Youthful
frocks for every occasion.
BEARD’S
—a—■B—B——i—11 'M! ”'■> ' ■' W*' I
The first duty of government,
President Hoover tells us, is to
safeguard the safety of its people.
We had begun to think it was to
argue about a tariff. _
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Of course you are, and
more than likely you
begin to feel sorry for
yourself along about
11 o’clock on a dreary
night. Why not call
us up and get some
food to cheer you up
and keep you going?
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Appearance
Counts for a whole
lot. If your shoes
aren’t nicely shined
and y o u r clothes
spic and span, you
can’t hope to attract
people and make
friends for yourself.
Take a brace and
have your shoes
shined at
CAMPUS
SHOE SHINE
Across From Sigma Chi
Tuxedos
at
DeNeffe’s
Now being
shown in a
wide range of
prices—
$25, $37.50
$40 and $50
All the acces
sories, too.
Then top it off
with one of our
Blue or Oxford
Topcoats and
Knox Derby.
See our new
dull calf dance
oxford.
DeNeffe’s
Men’s Dress Wear
We Rent Tuxedos