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University of Oregon, Eugene
Arthur E. Schoeni . Editor
William H. Hammond . Business Manager
Vinton Hall . Managing Editor
EDITORIAL WRITERS
Ron Hubbs, Ruth Newman, Rex Tussing, Wilfred Brown
Secretary—Ann Hathaway
UPPER NEWS STAFF
3V!nry Klemm . Assistant Managing Editor
Harry Van Dine . Sports Editor
Phyllis Van Kinunell . Society
Myron Griffin ..^........ Literary
Ralph David . Chief Night Editor
Cl'uor.re Craw . Makeup Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
Georire Weber, Jr. Associate Manager
Tony Peterson . Advertising Manager
Addison Broeknmn . Foreign Advertising Manager
Jean Patrick . Manager Copy Department
Larry Jackson . Circulation Manager
Betty llng'-n .. Women's Specialty Advertising
Inn Tremblay . Assistant Advertising Manager
Betty Carpenter .. Assistant Copy Manager
Ned Mars . Assistant Copy Manager
Louise Gurney . Executive Secretary
Bernadine Carrico . Service Department
Helen Sullivan . Checking Department
Fled Reifl . Assistant Circulation Manager
The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Asso
ciated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugtne, issued daily
except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. Member of
the Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice at
Eugene, Oregon, ns second class matter. Subscription rates,
$11.50 a year. Advertising rates ipon application. Phone, Man
ager: Office, 1805; residence, 127.
Day Editor ..Dorothy Thomas
Night Editor .Warner Guiss
Assistant Night Editors
John Rogers, Elinor Henry, Gwendolyn Metzger
A Bad Public Opinion!
STUDENTS are not the only ones on the Amer
ican university and college campus that cause
the higher-ups -the administration—to take on
gray hair. There are the professors.
Within the last month the eyes of the news
paper-reading public have been turned from stu
dent indiscretions such as bootlegging in fraterni
ties, smoking in campus buildings, Or publishing
off-color jokes in magazines and newspapers, to
battles between faculty members and the university
heads.
Take the University of Pittsburg. Freedom of
speech among the faculty is the question. Recently
the university authorities dissolved the Pitt Liberal
club for staging a banned Mooney-Billings meet
ing. Soon came a kick-back from the faculty.
They upheld the right to freedom of speech for
instructors. The battle is still being carried on on
paper.
• Take the University of Missouri. The president
and the board of curators have been severely cen
sured for disciplining two members of the univer
sity’s faculty who circulated a psychology question
naire of a sex nature. The American Association
of University Professors declared the administrators
acted against the freedom of teaching and research.
Defense of the move is made by the board by
branding the sex questionnaire as a social impro
priety, tending to make students sexua)(y immoral,
shocking to women, and capable of producing no
facts of scientific value.
Behind both of these moves can be detected the
unseen, yet powerful, influence of Public Opinion.
Universities depend upon public favor for their en
rollment. Parents will not send their sons and
daughters to an institution which fosters and per
mits too free speech or too free research. Uni
versity presidents fear public disfavor and are
forced to quel! activities which their better senses
tell them are next to harmless, for fear of what
the public will say.
Universities also depend upon the public for
their existence in a monetary way. Criticism from
Tartuffes or Gantry's is mixed with censure from
other social corners. They hear it all, and hearing
it, straightway it behooves the college president
to curb the unfavorable publicity.
Silencing or at least muffling the discordant
notes from within the walls of their castle on the
hil! is the presidents’ only recourse. O Public Ap
proval, how many injustices to progress have been
committed in thy name!
Prohibition an Injustice
FTER a ten-year scrutiny of the Volstead act
as put into effect by the nation ten years
ago this month the question lias been raised, “Has
it accomplished what its framers intended that it
should ?“
As a measure to alleviate poverty in the work
ing class, the evidence is that prohibition has
helped. As a measure dealing with a moral prob
lem -it has been marked with futility.
While it may have benefitted some classes it
has worked an injustice upon the youth of today
and has aroused an undesirable disregard of laws
among classes who are at heart law-abiding.
The extreme Volstead act has proved a failure.
Not only has it been a failure, but it has wrought
evils which it cannot undo. Especially is this evil
felt among the youth of the country.
Daily we see the finger of shame pointed at
college students for their violation of the nation’s
prohibition law. We who are members of a big
university do not propose to defend that accusa
tion by saying there is no violation. We know
there is. But we believe it is on the decline. It
may be less, but it is more demoralizing in effect.
It is easy for a college student to secure liquor
to commemorate some event like the winning of
a football game or the completion of examinations.
All he has to do is call up a number and ask for
a certain party and delivery will be made. Or he
can find out from associates whe,-e it can be pur
chased. And the kind of stuff that he gets is not
fit to drink. The gin, the moonshine, or the ether
spike i beer are not conducive to good health.
It is the spirit of youth and of braggadocio
which causes the student to flaunt the laws. The
expense of the Volstead law has been borne heavily
by youth. In general it has led to the breakdown
of respect for law. In particular the Volstead act
has succeeded only in ruining our gastric organ
isms. It has bred a code of morals in youth which
is an antithesis to pre-Volstead days. It has made
drinking “smart" because it is illegal, whereas be
fore it lowered one in the social rank.
The Emerald believes in temperance, and it be
lieves that undesirable conditions pointed out above
could be eliminated by a modification of the exist
ing prohibition structure.
It represents the voice of the students and not
the official opinion of the University. By modifica
tion can be accomplished the more constructive
aims which were outlined by champions of the Vol
stead act. Under the present status, prohibition’s
greatest effect is felt by the youth of America and
there lies its greatest injustice.
In Point of Years . . .
<<npHE POINT system for student activities was
formally adopted at a regular meeting of
the faculty Wednesday noon. . . . The new rule
applies to all students and outside activities.”
In 1920 the Oregon Emerald placed the story
containing that paragraph on the front page in its
most commanding position.
The faculty itself, no doubt, in its meeting
thought that the point system was to be of great
benefit to the students, for “the reason given for
introducing the system in the University was to
prevent any student from monopolizing a number
of offices, and to allow as many students as pos
sible to have a chance to obtain executive training
through the management of student activities.”
Today, ten years later, the point system has
not survived at Oregon. Students still monopolize
offices—still spend more time on activities than
on studies—still confuse the point system with
decimals.
Perhaps it would not work satisfactorily, yet
other schools swear by it. Perhaps it has rusted
away from laxity in observance' of its rules, yet
the faculty and administration seem active enough
in most progressive measures. Perhaps no one
wants those ten-year-ago evils remedied; and that
is j.he simplest answer.—R. T.
A Political Plea
THE big bosses of the bi-party political system
at Oregon State are stewing around in a vote
getting contest; campus politicians at the Univer
sity of Washington are in the midst of a heated
political struggle; and underground whispers indi
cate that the political pot is about to boil at Ore
gon. All of this political agitation suggests the
thought: has Oregon a satisfactory system of stu
dent politics?
In nearly all of the large institutions on the
Pacific coast political parties thrive and prosper
under the careful tutelage of political bosses. Here
at Oregon parties exist but only in a very hap
hazard manner with no pretense at issues except
the personalities of the candidates or one’s share
in the political pork-barrel. Alliance with a politi
cal organization is largely determined by the pat
ronage promised if the candidates are elected. Such
a system is pernicious. The aspiring candidates
must mortgage their political future to be success
ful, and their administration will result in a “cold
deck deal.”
We do not say all candidates have been elected
in this manner. Happily, there have been a few
strong-minded individuals who have refused to
'barter. But with the growth of the University,
political parties will be inevitable. We shall either
have to resort to a spoils system, or political or
ganizations built with a view to permanence. The
Utopia of student politics would be a strong party
system which recognizes individuals as political
units, not living organizations, and which empha
sizes issues of student interest in place of secret
political intrigue.—R. M. H.
Minnesota’s campus is rocked with a faculty
student war over men smoking in the library and
other campus buildings. Maybe the professors
could not stand the fumes from the five-centers
any longer.
There are only 50 co-eds on the campus at the
University of Detroit. They are not allowed to
converse with men at any time or place on the
campus. Bet they sell plenty of fountain pens in
Detroit.
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Listening In
On Lectures
A teacher in German in Canada where I taught
asked me not to speak to her in German because
she couldn’t speak the language; she only taught
it.—Dr. K. F. Reinhardt.
* * *
I’ve heard a lot of diverse reactions from the
“Listening In” column in the Emerald. I don’t
mind being quoted; it amuses me.-—Charles G.
Howard.
* * *
I have tasted banana-flavored ice cream, but
please don’t get it when you treat me. H. S.
Tuttle.
* * *
You’ll find the earlier type of invention still
sold in the isolated places of the world. For in
stance, the first types of automobiles are still sold
in Java and Borneo.—L. S. Cressman.
* * *
I think that the power plant is the most pleas
ing building on the campus merely because it
makes no pretenses. It's just what it is. The
chimney would be actually beautiful if it were
square. There is dignity in the building, that same
quality which marks Villa rd Dr. Rudolph Ernst,
in English Drama class.
The Ambler
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Yesterday we saw: ANNE STANGE and
JEWEL ELLIS hurrying after someone. . . . DR.
CASEY trying to write on the board tvith a cig
rette. . . . HAPPY HEITKEMPER looking un
happy about Romantic Poets. . . . HELEN COR
NELL looking happy about the weather. . . . ETTA
BELLE KITCHEN again. . . . HARVE BENSON
looking for a bridge game. ... A whole booth full
of GAMMA PHIS at the College Side. . . . JIMMY
LYONS on his way to play tryouts. . . . WILLEM
VAN HOOGSTRATEN being dynamic.
University Library
Encourages Thrift
In observation of “National
Thrift Week (Jan. 17 to 24), the
main library has placed a special
shelf of books for students on re
serve. The books deal with such
problems as: “Personal Expendi
tures,” “Economy,” “Waste,” »and
"Methods of Saving Money.”
DR. J. R. WETHERBEE
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Office Phone 1601
Residence 1230-M
801-2-3 Miner Bldg.
Eugene, Oregon
Prof .Crosland says
that one can have illu
sions without having a
comrade along ... we
can’t imagine what he
can refer to. But
hunger is no illusion
and it’s far more pleas
ant to relieve that
feeling when there’s
plenty of the gang
around. That’s why
everyone likes
Illusions
2952-W
Lunch
1
Special!
Stationery
1 00 Sheets
50 Envelopes
99c
University
Pharmacy
“The Students’ Drug
Store”
HJEIEUFyi
In an effort
to prove to the younger set, as well as
the older, that neatness and cleanli
ness are more tha® just an expression
to the young man who wishes to be
smartly dressed—we offer a “special”
service to those who in the last minute
of dress discover the need of laundry
service.
Eugene Steam Laundry
Phone 123, and we will send one of our representatives
to collect your specials.
imtJi
-tOLLKIATE
BROGUE.
“For Fast Stoppers”
In Tan or Black
on
SALE!
For those whose tastes are ultra modern
. . . for Young Men and Young Women
who keep up with the fashion trend, and
the largest stock in town to select from.
BUSTER BROWN
SHOE STORE
UP FROM THE OXCART
JOIN US IN THE GENERAL ELECTRIC
HOUR, BROADCAST EVERY SATUR
DAY AT q P.M., Ij.S.T. ON A NATION
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GENERAL
ELECTRIC
"Acceleration, rather than structural changes, is the key
to an understanding of our recent economic develop
ments.”—From the report of President Hoover's
Committee on Recent Economic Changes
^^ESTERDAY, the rumble, creak, and plod of cart and
oxen. To-day and to-morrow the zoom of airplanes. Faster
production. Faster consumption. Faster communication.
Significant of electricity's part in the modern speeding-up
process is the fact that during the last seven years, consump
tion of electric power increased three and one-half times as
fast as population. •
General Electric and its subsidiaries have developed and
built much of the larger apparatus that generates this power
as well as the apparatus which utilizes it in industry and
in the home.
The college-trained men who come every year to General
Electric take a responsible part in the planning, production,
and distribution of electric products, and at the same time
receive further technical or business training.
95-7MGC
GENERAL
ELECTRIC COMPANY, SCHENECTADY,
NEW
YORK
Girls Are Awfully Impractical .
AND that in probably the reason we are so fond of
them. But . . . they would rather ride in anything
than get those silver kid slippers ruined. So why
not invest in a “campus crate’’ . . . one that will
really run. “The girl” will like you so much better.
Sold at prices ranging from cheap-cheaper-cheapest
... at the
MORRIS CHEVROLET CO.
Phone 1920 Louis Dammasch
or 627
The Most Beautiful
Time of Year ...
Is Winter . . ,
and the cheerfulness of the season
is always added to by serving our
delicious creams, which are for ’
this week ... '
Beginning January 26, 1 930
“Home of College Ice Cream”
BRICK
French Ice Cream
Pineapple Sherbert
Strawberry Ice Cream
BULK
Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream
Eugene
Fruit Growers
Association
Phone 1480 8th and Ferry
U NDERNOURISHMENT and a
pleasant disposition don’t
mix. The “best natured man”
of the senior class isn’t the
one who spends his time
smiling through a series of
minor ills.
Shredded Wheat is the
natural breakfast for good
natured college men. It sup
plies* all the vital food ele
ments that keep their spirits
‘The Best
Natured
Man”
high. It’s easy to digest and
provides the bran to keep the
system clear.
If you want to start the day
with a cheerful outlook eat
two Shredded Wheat biscuits
every morning with good
rich milk and plenty of fruit.
It clears away those dark
mental clouds in a hurry.
THE SHREDDED WHEAT COMPANY