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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD ©«gun Ms fmcralii University of Oregon, Eugene Arthur L. Schoenl . Editor William H. Hammond . Business Manager Vinton Hall . Managing Editor EDITORIAL WRITERS Ron Hubbs, Rulh Newman, Rex Tugalnif, Wilfred Brown Secretary—Ann Hathaway UPPER NEWS STAFF Mary Klemm . Assistant Managing Editor Harry Van Dine . Sports Editor Phyllis Van Kimmell . Society Myron Criffin . Literary Vietor Kaufman ..El; E Ralph David . Chief Nwht Editor Claience Craw . Makeup Editor Ceorge Weber, Jr. . Tony Peterson . Addison Brockman Jean Patrick . Larry Jackson . Betty Hagen . Ina Tremblay .. Betty Carpenter . Ned Mars . Louise Gurney . Bernadine Carrico ... Helen Sullivan . Fred Reid . BUSINESS STAFF . Associate Manager .. Advertising Manager . Foreign Advertising Manager . Manager Copy Department . Circulation Manager . Women's Specialty Advertising . Assistant Advertising Manager . Assistant Copy Manager .Assistant Copy Manager . Executive Secretary . Service Department .. Checking Department . Assistant Circulation Manager The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Asso ciated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued dally except Sunday ami Monday, during the college year. Member of the Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates, $2.60 a year. Advertising rates jpon application. Phone, Man ager: Office, 1895; resilience, 127. Day Editor .Elise Schroeder Night Editor .Ted Montgomery Assistant Night Editors Katharine Patten, Elinor Henry Remodelling a Constitution LAST term the Emerald carried a lengthy story calling attention to the deficiencies and inade quacies of the student body constitution as printed in the student handbook. Regardless of the reasons why this constitution was printed in its present form, the fact remains that it IS contradictory and practically useless as a law-book to refer to in cases of student govern ment questions. The appointment of a constitutional remodelling committee yesterday by Tom Stoddard has been expected for some time and is a step in the right direction. As no one knows better than they must appre ciate by now, the committee has a difficult job ahead. There are a lot of angles, minor and major, to be decided upon. Encroachment of student government by fac ulty supervisors is a problem that looms mountain high to student body officials. Settlement of whether there are to be definite or vascillating sal aries for Emerald and Oregana editors and man agers is another problem. Water polo wants rec ognition as a major sport. There are many others, involving student rights and policies as well as def initions of procedure. Opportunities for a constructive, serviceable piece of work are at the hands of revisions committee. They can function as so many college committees do—not at all or they can produce a new constitution which can be looked to with con fidence when problems of procedure arise and looked up to and respected by faculty as well as student. Radio Contest Popular EVERYONE on the campus or off—tuned in or the Emerald-KORE radio hours this week and everyone agreed that they were good. All three of the living organizations put on pro grams of music and comedy skits which were worth while tuning in on. Fraternity fireplaces were pop ular places during the broadcasts, the number ol students listening in becoming greater with each program as the praise for the excellent music went around the campus. Two more houses have entered the competition for the latest-model radio, the silver cups, the read ing lamps and the theater contract that are being offered by Eugene firms as prizes. The Emerald-KORE radio contest is proving a new outlet for campus musical talent. It is ex ploiting the musical talent which seldom gets a chance on the campus. More men and women will participate in the contest than in any other single function of the student body. Since the abandonment of the Junior Vodvil such an outlet for student musical and entertaining abilities is especially desirable. Campus backing and interest are behind the radio broadcasts. Tune in on next week's three programs Tuesday, Wednes day, and Thursday. They are going to be good. Being a College Editor T>EING editor of a college newspaper is fun. It'! -U like being a doorman in a ritzy hotel—he wears a big uniform with shiny brass buttons. He sticks out his chest and the younger generation thinks he’s swell. People his own age come along. To them h< is not so swell. He is there only to open the doot and point out the way. If a doorman or an edi tor has done that he has earned the slight wagt he has coming to him. He is not in society, he only sees it from the outside. His shiny buttons do not mean oper sesame for him. He is glad there is a younget generation. Being a college editor is fun. They give hire his job and show him his office. He sharpens i lot of new pencils, gets some clean paper, and set: to work. People come in to see him about things. The) want to know if he will say this or that. He says yes. Afterward people come in to ask why In said them. They tell him things he did not know before he wrote. He wonders why he wrote it. St do they. They go away and talk to others aboul him. He has a lot of ideas. They seem pretty good He thinks they will raise the intellectual standard of the college student, so he uses them. He want: to open the door for his fellow-students. Nobod) says anything about his editorials. Sorrowing, In realizes no one reads them. He begins to use tin back door because he knows no one understands. Students want to read about themselves. St he writes about students and politics. Then the) flock in to see him. He realizeg how confining his little cubby-hole is, how cramped he is in there. They all want to know why he wrote about stu dents and politics. The editor doesn't know. Some unmoral words appear in his paper, in one of the columns. The moralist forces of the college call him up and want to know why they were printed. He doesn’t know. He did not know they were going in. So he just sits in his office and looks at his feet. Looking at feet is not fun, but no one copies in to ask him why he does it. He could tell them if they did. Outside his office, the students walk by, busy, chattering, full of ideas. He has more ideas, but he remembers his little cubby-hole, the cracks in it, the knotholes, and he keeps his ideas to him self. He just looks at his feet. Hints for Puzzled. Classes APPARENTLY as a step toward justifying its existence as an organization, the senior class voted $25 toward the relief of the unfortunate Bul garian students at its meeting Tuesday. Tn case the other three classes are in search of means for maintaining prestige in the face of this and for accomplishments other than dances and vodvils to fill their histories, the Emerald ventures to make the following suggestions: To the freshman class: Appropriate $25 to pro vide gas-operated lighters along Thirteenth street in front of Condon, Oregon, and Commerce. To the sophomore class: Appropriate $25 to pay for the services of a traffic officer between the library and the Co-op each morning between 8:50 and 9; 9:50 and 10; and 10:50 and 11. To the junior class: Appropriate $25 to purchase alarm clocks for faculty members who for defec tive hearing or other reasons ignore the closing bell. THis should serve as a starter, and other ideas of service will doubtlessly present themselves in the course of time. The story of the S. P. E. who went for a plunge in the mill race Thursday for the sum of $1.35, re minds us that fees are due again. The Junior Week-end directorate should be out soon, giving us a line on the candidates for student body offices this May. mi ■si Oreganized Dementia a. ---.—_—1—_'is OKOO PULLS FAUX PAS Story of How a Young Lover Puts Skids Under Villain. (Tense Drama in Three Parts.) TTERE’S WHAT HAPPENED in the other two parts of this three-part masterpiece: Toitus, pre-historic heroine, sends Okoo, hero, to kill Buvo, villain, for insulting her. Okoo starts out, but loses his nerve and allows Buvo to make a slave out of him. One day Okoo faints under the lash ing of Buvo’s whip. When he comes to, everything is in inky darkness. Now you can finish the thing. PART III. (Conclusion.) “Whoo," muttered a few owls. Okoo sat up. Wants Sweetheart “To Toitus! To Toitus!” he wheezed hoarsely. “To Toitus I must tear!” “Let us sleep,*’ said a rasping feminine voice. “Shut up, Your Majesty.” "Hey!” screeched Okoo. “What?” Woman Growls A ferocious growl answered him, this time only half feminine in tone. Then followed a chorus of similar sounds, varying in pitches to tiny squeaks. “This," thought Okoo, “does demand silence.” Dawn Brings Sight Dawn arrived. And what a sight with it! Okoo was in a tent. A dozen or so human beings of assorted sizes stirred, got up, and filed out. Chil dren, striplings, young men and women, nearly as naked as a herd of horses. The last was a some what aged woman. Why, it was Toitus! Outside, the group stiffly faced Okoo, lined up in accordance with their heights. Toitus stood a pace or so in front of them. Brats Bow “Good morning, papa,” they all sang out, bow ing in unison. But Okoo's eyes were all for his darling. “Toitus!” he cried, spreading his arms. She only stared. Okoo lunged for her, but she jumped back in alarm. "Papa's crazy again," chuckled one of the young sters. Family Pleased All shrieked with delight as Toitus fled around the tent with Okoo scampering at her heels. “Look at mama go!" they shouted. "Aren't you frivolous!” screamed Okoo. “Aren't you playful!" He tripped and skidded his face in the dust. The family gathered around, curious. V Brain Disjointed A foolish sensation crept over Okoo as two sec tions of his mind smacked together for the first time; and he remembered how Buvo had thrown him for dead into the bone-yard thirty years be fore; how he had come to and returned for mortal combat; and how in a last desperate effort he had met a furious, hollering charge and had settled the issue by ramming his fist down Buvo's throat. Okoo Dumb People had hailed him as king. And now -he was rightly puzzled. For in the annals of science, this was case No. 1 of amnesia. And what could a person like King Okoo be expected to know about ■1 science? THE END • * * i A DEMENTIA artist has thrown a literary fit. Watch for results Tuesday. 3T If I Were FOOTBALL COACH P).. I would want a larger stadium to hold the crowds my team would draw, I would give more letters, I would arrange annual trips to Florida, and give my first year’s salary to "Socks from Socrates." Lester McDonald. * * * I would make an effort to build football into the rest of the edu cational fabric and reduce it to its proper place as part of the whole scheme. Furthermore, I would try to get the men on the football team really interested in getting an education. S. Stephenson Smith. I would suggest that a separate part of the men’s dormitory be given over for the football play ers to live in during football sea son. This would enable the play ers to keep in closer personal touch with each other and would make the enforcement of training rules a simpler problem. Johnny Londahl. I would WANT to do just what Dr. Spears is GOING to do—I would put Oregon on the football map of the United States. Doc Robnett. Listening In On Lectures The success of the Kansas City Star shows that a newspaper doesn’t always need streamer headlines, bootleg plots, love nests and bathing beauties to sell the paper. —Dr. Casey. The influence of an editorial writer is based on a genius for ef fective reiteration without any ap pearance of repetition. —Dean Allen. I have seen many of the elabor-r ate rituals, taboos and initiations and their effects among primitive races. Many of the practices of college and high school men re mind me of these customs. —Warren D. Smith. New Yorkers are most inhospit able. They refused to show me through the stock exchange; al though if they came here I would be only too willing to show them /through the Eugene public mar ket. —Dean Gilbert. Why Have Tribunes j Pi_— Gains was a Roman with a big chest. In the days of the pompous Caesars big chests were neither uncommon nor regarded as un usual. But Gaius’s stood out more proudly; a jutting headland over his splendidly muscled body, for he came from a long line of Rom ans who prided themselves in up holding the traditional physique of their fathers. Gains was a tribune. All day long he was to be seen tramping up and down the market place, sampling an apple here or a tasty viand there from some lowly slave’s basket. His head he car ried high, for was he not a tri bune ? Was he not the powerful elect whose specific function it was to protect the plebeian Roman’s rights? But as he strutted each day he was always beneath the watchful eye of one or more of his sub ordinates. This day two, Octavius and Marullus, followed him with censuring eyes, dogging close be hind in his footsteps. Octavius Doth yon Gaius do nothing the day long except preen himself and pout his chest ? Marullus—What more hath he to do? lie is a tribune and now that Caesar hath all the power Gaius is but as a figure head on Hannibal's war craft. Octavius True, he yet hath power to name who shall keep the market place clean and who shall see to it the dance and fes tivals of the new year are cared for as in the past. .Marullus -Caesar could carry out such slight labors. Yon ,Gaius hath but a name! A tri bune! Phoo, what be tribunes but ones who bowed down to Caesar when he was yet weak and whom he hath helped re ward by his political potencies. Octavius If such be, why have we tribunes? Marullus— (shrugging should ers)—’Tis but an old Roman custom, methinks, which we modern Romans hesitate to break. We are but old hags when we become sentimental. And yet we say we are progres sive. Truly, Octavius, had I but a sleeve I would fain laugh up it. (Curtain). * * * The play was over. ‘‘Well, how'd it get by?” de manded the young man who had played the part of Gaius. ‘‘Okay, i I’d say. That chest of yours sure went over big,” answered the Roman Marullus, now a mere col lege man with a toga and wig in his hand, standing behind scenes talking with his fellow actors. ‘‘But did you notice that guy in the front row? He acted kinda funny . . . seemed to have a guilty conscience or something bothering him.” Octavius put in. “Oh, that fellow. He is one of the class officers .... What do you suppose was eating on him?” ‘‘I wonder . . . Maybe he didn’t like the play. . . . Now I wonder. . . .” And the three actor^ walked off. Three 4RV Theory Exploded hy Our Modern Mentors Mathematics, Languages Should Be Compulsory No Longer, Say Deans Students who used to think com pulsory subjects as mathematics and languages unnecessary in their high school careers now have the support for their beliefs from University of Oregon educators. Although some high school stu dents had no interest whatsoever in these two particular fields, nev ertheless, in the past, it was im perative to study them for a cer tain length of time in order to graduate. Among educators of this country there has been much controversy as to the comparative, values derived from teaching these courses in high school. As a re sult of research during the past few years, the old system has been found inadequate. "The attitude of making lan guages and mathematics elective ought to be the status," Dr. Nel son L. Bossing, associate profes sor in education, stated in express ing his opinion, “for many sub jects from the wealth of material obtainable must be given up to study these two.” The old problem of mental dis cipline in mathematics has been exploded, according to Dr. Bossing, since this subject should be taught only to students who ex pect to use it vocationally. Professor F. L. Stetson express ed the same opinion, adding, how ever, that a two-year course in mathematics would be most ad visable for those intending to take work in college which required this subject. Foreign language, on the other hand, ought to be entirely elec tive and taught only in the larger high schools, since the smaller schools have inadequate teaching. “The students who are interest ed in these subjects need to be en couraged to continue their study, while others should not be com pelled to take them, Professor Stetson declared. That the Americans are too iso lated and need the knowledge of one foreign language to keep them in touch with the rest of the world was brought out by H. D. Sheldon, dean of the school of education. Although foreign languages should not be made compulsory except for college entrance, Dean Sheldon stated, nevertheless, ev eryone ought to study one lan guage. either French or German, for five or six years, in order to obtain a mastery of the language. As for mathematics, especially geometry and algebra, it is advisa ble for a student to take them long enough to discover his apti tude or lack of aptitude for that particular line, Dean Sheldon con cluded. Moore Tells French Club of European Trip Numerous and sundry adven tures in visiting France, Italy, and Tahiti, and points east were divulged by Dr. A. R. Moore, head of the animal biology department, in an address before an open meet ing of Pi Delta Phi, French hon orary, last night at University high school. The story of »the travels of Dr. Moore was illustrated with lan tern slides which he brought from Europe. After the lecture mem bers of the society adjourned to the Kappa Kappa Gamma house for a short business meeting. v. w. i noir— Will meet at 1 o'clock today in the bungalow. Every member is expected to attend. -uO Philomelete Drama Group— Will meet Sunday at 5 o'clock, in the women's lounge of the Ger linger building. • Everyone please attend. -O Philomelete Arts and Crafts Group— Will meet Sunday afternoon al 4 o’clock at the Y. W. bungalow. -O Fraternities and Sororities— Which have not turned in cards for housing high school delegates do so at once to Eleanor Flana gan, Kappa Alpha Theta. LIBRARY RECEIVES MATSY ISEW BOOKS New books received for the rent shelf at the main library yester day consist mostly of biographj and travel stories. The books list ed below are all new and the most representative o£ the lot. "Ends of the Earth" by Roj Chapman Andrews, lost in a Bor neo jungle, whaling off the coast of China, a Robinson Crusoe on e desolate island. Here is a narra tive leading up to the author’s famous Asiatic expeditions. “Th< Miracle of Peille” by J. L. Camp bell, a novel of religious mysti cism with a clear dramatic pur pose and a polished perfection ol phrase. “The Life and Strangs and Surprising Adventures oi Daniel DeFoe” by Paul Dottin DeFoe’s life is perhaps the mosi glamorous in English history “Visit India With Me" by Dhar Copal Mukerji. Mr. Mukerj shows India, his native land, tc an American friend. “Our Face from Fish to Man’ by William K. Gregory, why ws have a face and how our race ac quired it are the questions whicl the author answers, scientifically dramatically and vividly. “De feat” by Ricarda Huch, a pictun of the great liberator Garibald and his heroic defense of Rome “Beaumarchais" by Rene Dal seme, a biography of a friend o America during the revolution, o Winter Time Is Anchorage Time A warm, cozy room and a comfortable booth make a pleasant place to spend an hour. THE ANCHORAGE CAMPUS SHOE SHINING PARLOR 10 Shines for $1.00 Tickets Good for 50 Days Boots Shined for 20c ‘Ted Pleases Everybody” Across from Sigma Chi THEODORE RADIOS Come Dance on SUNDAY at 8 o’Clock and all Other Sundays MIDWAY whom most Americans know" very little. “The Persians Are Com ing” by Eruno Frank; fictionizes the characters of a foremost statesman of present day France, and "The Days of the King” by Bruno Frank, the central charac ter is Frederick the Great, and the author depicts the last few years in the life of this lonely monarch. ENROLLMENT NOW AT NEW' HIGH MARK Enrollment of full time students at the University of Oregon has reached 3184, it is reported by Earl M. Pallett, registrar. This is 12 more than were signed up at this time last year. With students who completed their studies at Christmas, and others who have dropped out until later, the actual campus census now stands at 2900, a gain of 62 over this time last year. The University eliminated 37 students for failure in studies at the erfd of the fall term, while many others completed work for their degrees. These latter will receive their di plomas at the regular graduation exercises next June. A substantial gain in extension and correspondence school stu dents, and in summer school last summer show that the University is progressing steadily in adult as well as student education, Mr. Pallett states. Publishing Company Hires Dorothy Baker Dorothy Baker, ’29, who was very prominent as a member of the Emerald and Oregana staffs while on the campus, is now work ing as a general reporter for the Myers’ Publishing company in Chicago, according to word re ceived here recently. Miss Bakei was a member of Theta Sigma Phi, women’s journalism honor ary, Mortar Board, and Alpha Xi Delta. Miss Baker is rooming with an other Theta Sigma Phi, also try ing to get a start in the world, who held the world’s champion breast-stroke title while on the campus. 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