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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD ©tegun Mb lattmlfc University of Oregon, Eugene Arthur jL. Schoenl . Editor William II. Hammond . Business Manager Vinton Hall . Managing Editor EDITORIAL WRITERS Ron Huhhs, Ruth Newman, Rex Tusslnif, Wilfred Brown Nancy Taylor .... Secretary UPPER NEWS STAFF Mary Klernm . Aaaiatant Manayinpr Editor Harry Van DlfJT "““""i:::::::.. Sport. Editor Phyllia Van Kirnmell .,V." rari It"l"h *>«»jd . Ch "Makeup Editor Claience Craw GENERAL NKWS STAFF: Dave Wilson, Helen Cornell, Carol Werschkul, Robert Allen. Henry Lumpee, Elizabeth Fainton, Thornton Gale. Lavina llicka. Juek Ilellinirer, Kathryn h.•Id man. Barbara Coniy, Rufus Kimball. Thornton Shaw, Robert Guild, Betty Haroombe, Ann.- Hricknell. Carl Monroe, 1 helmu Nelson, Lois Nelson, Evelyn Shaner, Sterling Green. SPORTS WRITERS: Jack Burke, assistant editor: Ralph Ver yren, Edgar Goodnaugh, Beth Salway. Day Editor Night Editor . Willis Duniway Beatrice Bennett ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS Helen Rankin, Allen Spalding George Weber, Jr. ... Tony Peter«on . Addison Brockman .. Jean Patrick . Larry Jackson . Betty Hagen . Inn Tremblay ... . . Betty Carpenter Pot Ann#* War nick Professional Division Shopping Column .... BUSINESS STAFF . Associate Manager . Advertising Manager . Foreign Advertising Manager . Manager Copy Department . Circulation Manager Women's Specialty Advertising ’*”*.*,. Assistant Advertising Manager . Assistant Copy Manager . Executive Secretary . Laugh ridge Hetty Hagen, Nan Crary EXECUTIVE ASSISTANTS: Ned Mars, Bernadlne Carrico, Helen Sullivan, Fred Reid. ADVERTISING SOLICITORS: Larry Hay, Harold Short, Auton Bush, Ina Tremblay. Production Assistant . Vincent Mutton Office Assistants . Ruth Covington, Nancy 'I ay lor 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.HO a year. Advertising rates jpon application. Phone, Man ager: Office, 1896; residence, 127. Mountains—Mole-hills FTER sitting on the edges of our collective chairs, anxiously awaiting the outburst of righteous and customary ire from Oregon State Agricultural college over the ‘'sportsmanship" dis played at the basketball game Saturday night, the Barometer, official student opinion organ of the Corvallis school, finally came across with an edi torial. Bob Robinson was held up as an epitome of sportsmanship for not voeallizing during the game; the scoreboard was all wrong, and on top of all that the game started late all world-crashing arguments in favor of cancelling athletic relations between O. S. A. C. and Oregon. Here is the Barometer editorial: HOW LONG, OH LORD, HOW LONG? Apparently the students at the University of Oregon have no intentions of improving their conduct at athletic games when the opponent happens to be a team from this institution. Do they intend to continue with this blatant un sportsmanship until athletic relations between the two schools becomes a thing of the past, or do they intend to sponsor a reformation pro gram only after higher officials have deemed it advisable to sever athletic relations between the state college and the university? Perhaps there is a feeling among Oregon students that, the simpler way of combating future Oregon State teams is by not having to schedule games with those teams. If Oregon feels that any contact, even on the athletic field, would sully their spotless culture, a few more exhibitions like the one at Eugene Satur day night would certainly remove any such danger for the feeling is becoming quite mu tual. The sportsmanship shown by the Oregon students at the first basketball game of the year was simply a continuation of that which Oregon State students were forced to endure November 1G at Hayward field in Eugene. The game, scheduled to start at 8 o'clock, was held up until 18 minutes later when the Oregon team finally appeared from the locker rooms. For 18 minutes the Oregon State boys.waited on the floor amid personal jeering and pugnacious w lse-cruc King. The Oregon Varsity "O" men, seated di rectly behind the Oregon State players' bench, conducted themselves in a manner no way be fitting a group of men who should understand a player's reaction to grandstand booing. However, there was at least one gentleman in that group who openly appeased the feelings of one Oregon State player as he was leaving the floor. Bobby Robinson, football star, stood out like a shining light against his teammates and admonished Buck Grayson to ignore the personal outbursts from the stand. With their usual careful attention to details, the letters “O. A. G." were used on the score board. Why Oregon students are so reluctant about accepting O. S. G. and Oregon State in connection with our institution is more than we can fathom. Certainly, if they were at tempting to encourage a healthy rivalry the detail would not be overlooked. The Barometer feels that any retaliation from the Oregon State student body would be decidedly bad form, but the Barometer also understands the limitations of human nature, and for that reason the student leaders at o. S. G. should not be held accountable for any thing that might happen in Corvallis Friday night. Our declaration made this fall to the effect that contests in the university city should be discouraged so long as ttiis attitude of jaek assininity remains prevalent among the Ore gon students wilt still be adhered to. Any Oregon students with solutions to this colossal problem are urged to send them to the Barometer. The Emerald isn't interested. Action of rooters and team Saturday night were no dif ferent than this writer has seen at every other Oregon State-Oregon contest for the last five years in fact, better. Theie was friendliness expressed in the spirit between the two rooting sections which was unlike the hostile spirit of yore. The Order of the O, of which the writer is a member, conducted itself in a manner befitting a group of men who understand a player's reaction to grandstand booing a player does not notice “riding” if he is interested in the game. After reading the Barometer editorial and glancing over the similar comment in ttie sports columns, the thought occurs that perhaps they served the Oregon State newspaper men apple cores in the press box—and that they must have been pretty green. Consistency for Sports WHETHER water polo Is to be counted as a major sport and letters given for participa tion, as asked by a correspondent today, of course depends on the value of the arguments presented. But when those arguments are presented, it would be wise to ask for consistency in all the judgments rendered. All sports were made major sports last year as part of the program of giving every student ade quate recognition for a certain amount of play for the University. It was hoped that with the increase in number of sports rewarded that the true ideal of sports, sports for everybody, would be realized. If water polo, fencing, boxing, and the others now unrecognized are to be denied major standing, and especially any standing at all, then last year’s work has meant little. The water polo team, for example, had five intercollegiate contests last year. The fencing squad won the Northwest champion ship. Training for those sports was just as thor oughly undertaken as for football students partici pated who could not in other sports a wider range of activities was presented. On the other hand, football letters were granted to ihose players who entered, even for a minute, in intersectional games. Thus the Hawaiian or Florida contests alone counted much more than a season of endeavor in water polo. The University in a sense recognizes the sports now probationary. It provides coaches, it provides contests, it provides expense money for players, it provides equipment. But it does not provide let ters. If letters are to Vie granted for one sport, they should be granted for others just as worthy, unless, of course, awards are to be determined as in the past by the gate receipts which each sport draws. One-sixth of the American population is illit erate, a college professor says. It’s really not that bad; he probably made his survey among college students. Wedding cake weighs 200 pounds, a headline says. Does the bride always bake her own wed ding cake ? Senator says prohibition is a football. Then it should be put on a professorial basis. a»— --—■— ---- ,4u Oreganized Dementia a ■ — --—is HOW TO G10T A BOOK OUT OF THE RESERVE LIBRARY BEFORE 9:80 P. M. Slup the desk resonantly with the palm of your hand. Regard the librarian analytically, firmly. Saying, “Here, catch this,” toss your note hook at him, or her. This is an experiment to determine whether or not the person is re sourceful, trustworthy, and able to act in an emergency. Next, say: “I want a book.” Don’t let them bluff you. Speak authorita tively in a tone that is not to he denied. They have lots of books. If some hesitancy is shown, hurdle over the desk, pick your notebook up off the floor, and begin a survey of the volumes on display in the shelves. On seeing one that attracts you, jerk it from its place and glance hastily through it. Tluui turn to the librarian and say: rrr “I’ll take this one.” lie may object. If he does, lose no time. Draw out your lead pipe and tap him vigorously, and the book is yours. * • * SHAME The Dementia staff is grovel”ng in shame for the University. A piece in the O. S. t'. Barometer classes us, whether the cruel Ba rometer knows it or not, with the wicked in mates of the Mudherg city jail, Head this edi torial clipped from the Sing Song Federal Prison Gazette and see for yourself: OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT of the Associated Inmates of Mudherg City Jail: -Your ham safe-crackers seem to think that there is no such thing as good sportsmanship. All I got to say is that they won't go to heaven. Human Nature Fierce Last Saturday's rock-crushing contest was the first between our two hoosegows this sea son, and If during the next three on the sched ule your uncultured hoodlums persist in booing our hammer stars, we'll break loose from our guards and say some terrible things to you— there are limits to human nature. r You ought to be ashamed of yourselves, you overgrown whelps, booing at our poor, defenseless life-termers after they’ve gone and worked so hard to make the team. You started off disgracing yourselves by writ ing S. S. P. up on your score-board, when you know very well that we are a Federal prison and that our name is Sing Song Federal Prison. Aren't you mortified? Trying to take “Federal” out of our name—of all things! Moo Wicked Word And when one of our men struck one of your men on the head with his hammer, all of you yelled, “Moo!” Is that nice? What if some of our trustees do run a dairy farm? It's none of your busi ness. We are ashamed enough of it, without having you ruli it In. Yours truly, SLIPPERY (US, Editor S. 1', r. Gazette, One Fr’a Penny By Guilfin Hi —..—--——'£ FABLES SEVENTH AND EIGHTH They are the possessors of a proud antiquity and a conserva tive inhibition, these lads. These facts may not be very evident, but any of them will assure you it is so, if only you will ask them. And there is, after all, an evidence. The spirit of antiquity has spread itself even unto their house, which is on the verge of collaps ing into the mill-race. You’d think with all their glorious senility, (wasn’t it 8!) years?) something could have been produced in a fraternity way, wouldn't you? Not that it has. In fact,-is notorious for having produced general nothingness. There is a rumor that hack in the dark ages there were once three activities, and even, (hut I doubt this), an athlete. They may not be active, but they get around. Oh, yes, they are well-known on the campus. They are to be seen wherever there is nothing to do . . . but they never see anyone else. How could they? Their noses have ac quired such a perpetual upward slant from their “holier than thou” mental abberation that it is' becoming more and more an effort to look around them. And you really couldn’t expect a —— to exert himself to speak to you. As for the conservatism of the house (pawdon me, I should have said -), it is manifest ed in several startling ways. They have no nameplate on their door . . . (the weight would tear it from its hinges, anyway) . . . but they shout enough about themselves, in a thoroughly condescending fashion, of course, to make up for the balance of advertisement. And there are still those on the campus who believe that by calling the - one can obtain almost anything with which to assure the success of the evening. But I'm sure that’s not so. A -assured me personally and confidential ly that there’s not a drop in the house. So they don’t drink any more, these boys. I don’t know what they do. It used to be that girls would go out with them. I hear they won't any more. At least, they don’t go out. Something al ways happens. I remember the dance that they gave with their neighbors of the “beau geste,” and some of the regrettable inci dents of the evening . . . but that’s beside the point. WTiat the trouble umounts to is that they don’t like to walk. And tw'cf cars isn’t really enough to supply tnc whole group. (They have three ears, as a mat ter of fact, but no one is ever seen in the third except its beau tiful owner). But that’s noth ing against them. Remember, they’re conservative, and ex clusive. And every evening they go out, these conservatives, in their pa jamas, down the walk, and sleep outside. It's just a quaint old custom. They live up on a hill, but don't let that fool you it doesn’t mean anything except, perhaps, that it takes them longer to get to class es. However, it's a good excuse to hang around the College Side all afternoon, being collegiate, which is a quality they could do well to cultivate since it would be better than the quality (what would you call it ?) that they have now. Well, they have a new house hut that doesn’t fool anybody, either. They can’t quite get used to all this splendor but it’s beginning to work on them—to some extent, anyway. One of their biggest boys, reddish haired he is, has celebrated by buying a suit! Yessir—a coat and a \est and a pair of pants, all alike, too! -has several boys who are just the oddest sort of people you ever knew . . . You are walking down the campus with a member of this house tagging along beside you. and you pass some of these pe culiar brethren. “Who are they? you ask. I’p comes your companion’s chest. “Don’t you know them!” "Wliat they do?’’ you ask. Your ball and chain hesitates a moment, then says, “Why—why—they write oh, gee—they're good, too.” Well, these are the peculiar per sons mentioned above. To bo nasty, they’re “half-baked ado lescents educated beyond their power to assimilate.”* And now we come to their ath letes; or rather, their scarcity of athletes. (This will be juicy— don't-stop now.) If they didn’t have any lettermen, they might excuse it by saying that, they “did n't go in for that type,” or some thing of that kind. But they have some; just enough to justify the use of the plural. True, they have plenty of men who turn out, but they must do it for exercise, or something . . . maybe just for the love of the sport . . . something mysterious, at any rate. Oh, yes, another thing: they have a sweet little custom up there; it’s too ducky for words. They have teas every other Sun day—teas, mind you, and they invite women over and dance and play bridge and eliat and just have the liest time! It takes no mental wizard to look just a little farther into this, to see tlie real reason behind it. Unable to rat*1—oh well, go on from there yourself. I’m afraid I've given it away as it is. I hope you haven’t taken me wrong in this thing I hope you haven’t gathered the idea that I don’t like the boys of —-—. Be cause I do. I have to. (The hell I don’t). ♦This really belongs to L. M. Thanks. ~ FORUM | RECOGNIZE WATER POLO To the Editor; Water polo was placed on pro bation as a sport at the Univer sity last yeaf. Since that time members of the team have been barred from intramural games be cause they played on the varsity team. The probation was to last for only a year. Oregon won two of its five in tercollegiate games last year, and has a schedule underway for this year. Isn’t it about time that the polo team status was cleared ? And isn’t it about time to give let ters for participation ? —A Player. WHAT DOES IT SAY? To the Editor: The financial world may have its Babsons, the followers of sport may turn, when in doubt, to Rip ley, but Allah be praised, we have our Guilfin. Who can doubt but that the Fables are inspired mas DeNeffe’s Now Showing the Newest Arrivals in Sprin Suits Flannels, Tweeds, Diagon als and Herringbones in tans, greys and browns. Shown with two trousers, or kniekers to match. Express shipments arriving daily. De Neffes McDonald Theatre Bldg. terpieces among the be.st analyti cal surveys of the world? Perhaps their masterful descrip tion of Oregon's Greek letter fra ternities (and their statements must be true) is born of careful pondering during their hours of languid lounging at the Side—per haps this genius can be attained by assuming that bored metro politan, air (strange how these small-town boys can attain it) — possibly it comes from countless nights of poring over the diction ary in search of the “searing” words that they use—but no mat ter whence it comes, or in what manner, it contains that essence of satire and wit, so unattainable by the mob. We understand that one of the famous duo has progressed far in advance of his colleagues and must betake himself to Yale uni versity in the near future (he told us so.) The campus will suffer immeasurably, it is true, but may Oregon’s loss be Yale’s gain and may his brilliant satirical pen give that university the same care ful analysis of her fraternity situa tion. Meanwhile his eminent part ner will have to struggle on alone, until a time when a new prodigy shall spring from the rabble to fill this boy philosopher’s shoes. —A Humble Student. Women are as old as they look, and men are never too old till they stop looking. “All quiet on the Western Front” has been banned in Italy by II Duce. The oldest yearling is at the University of Chicago. Seventy two years old, he obeys all the freshman traditions. CLASSIFIED ADS PIANO JAZZ Popular songs im mediately; beginners or ad vanced; twelve-lesson course. Waterman System. Leonard J. Edgerton, manager. Call Stu dio 1672-W over Laraway's Mu sic Store, 972 Willamette St. tf ] Kwucna meeting—tonight at 5 o’clock in Gdrlinger hall. Crossroads — meeting tonight at the usual place and time. —-o International Week directorate— meerts at the hut today at 4 o’clock. -o-:— Junior and sophomore women’s basketball teams—are urged to be out at 5 o’clock today. •Jnnior Shine day directorate—will meet for picture at 11:45 today in front of Johnson annex. -o Oregana pictures—will be taken of the student body glee club, ap pearing in formal dress, at 9:15 In a HURRY? It only takes a minute to drop in to the “O” Lunch and have a sandwich and a cup of coffee. None of that discouraging wait ing for someone to take your older. THE The Phone 02952-W Lunch 13th & Alder Sts. g I RULE FIANCE ii Lee-Duke’s Campus Band Friday Night LEE-DUKE’S CAFE Phone 549 for Reservations 1 ra fejrsirrarrarrararnirarrarfararrorrnrnirHirarararisrarrararrarr^franafrararrararrafTarr^rrurTaraniiranorarriinurararararrafrai^i at the mueic auuitorium aiLei l.-ik Mu Phi Epsilon concert program. All members of the club are re quested to be there at the appoint ed time. -o Christian Science Organization— will hold its regular meeting to night at 7:30 in the Y. W. C. A. bungalow. . o Men’s and women’s glee clubs— will meet at the school of music auditorium at 9:15 tonight to have pictures taken. -—o Alpha Delta S i g m a—luncheon meeting will be held tomorrow at X the Anchorage. Every member is expected to be present to enter tain guests attending the press conference. “SOMETHING NEW IN DECO RATIONS FOR SENIOR BADE,” SAVS PATTERSON. Coming Sunday HEILIG All Technicolor—All Perfect Vitaphone Recording BE MY VALENTIN Say It With Walora Candies Beautiful heart boxes—chocolate hearts with names or wording to suit— neatly decorated with flowers. Place your orders early—we'll pack them fresh -when you want them. WALORA CANDIES 851 East 13th that Shopping Excursion i: ■ •' . . I I = When you go over town to buy all those things you’ve been needing for so long: and when finally you’ve bought them all, you’re invariably hungry. Just drop in at the Peter Pan and have a bite to eat.' It will help you to fill in that interval between lunch and dinner that seems so very long. PETER PAN 996 Willamette Phone 1096