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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1930)
EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD • _ _ ___ ___ -- _ - ■ — - . - - (Steegun Sai!fl ntcralii University of Oregon, Eugene Mary Klemm . Editor William H. Hammond .Business Manager Elise Sehroeder .Managing Editor UPPER NEWS ST/frF Beth Solway .Sports Editor Evelyn Shnner .Theatre and Humor Editor Phyllis Van Kimmell .Society Editor Boldly Reid. I.nis Nelson . Uterary Editors Mary Frances Dilday ..Chief Copy Header GENERAL NEWS STAFF: Laura Clithero. Betty Anne Mac duff. lien ore Ely, Eleanor .lane Ballantyne, Henrietta stoinke, Elizabeth Painton. Renee Grayce Nelson. Bess Duke. Helen Chaney, Barbara Oonly, Janet Fitch, Elinor Henry. Lavina Hicks, Betty Hareombe, Anne Bricknell, Carol Wersehkul, Thelma Nelson, Lois Nelson, Lucille Chapin, Dorothy Kirk, Zorn Beamen. „ Day Editor ..Dorothy Thomas General Assignment ..Bobby Reid Night Editor ..Beatrice Bennett ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS Nan Ruonala Esther Hayden Helen Rankin BUSINESS STAFF Q' ,rge Weber, Jr... Aasoclate Manager Tony Peterson .Advertising Manager Addison Brockman . Foreign Advertising Manager Jean Patrick . Manager Copy Department gkrry Jackson . Circulation Manager Betty Hagen . Women's Specialty Advertising Inn Tremblay . Assistant Advertising Manager Betty Carpenter . Assistant Copy Manager Edwin Pubols .Statistical Department Dot Anne Warnick . Executive Secretary Katherine Laughrige . Professional Division Shopping Column . Betty Hagen, Nan Crary EXECUTIVE ASSISTANTS: Ned Mars, Bernadine Carrico, Helen Sullivan, Fred Reid. ADVERTISING SOLICITORS: Katherine Laughrage, Gordon Samueison, Nan (^fary, Ina Tremblay. Production Assistant . Ed Klrbv Office Assistants . Elaine Wheeler, Carol Werscbkul The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Asso ciated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued dally 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 ratea jpon application. Phone, Man ager: Office, 1895; residence, 127. _ Football on the Wane? «T*7HAT’S the matter with the student body? » » Where’s its pep? Doesn't it want to see its own new football coach?” are the questions asked by those interested in seeing the biggest and best rally ever on the evening of “Doc” Spears’ arrival. Curiosity about this colorful personality called Clarence W. Spears there is, but a curious lack of the rah rah spirit. Pep for its 'own sake— or even for football’s sake—is failing to produce gratuitous enthusiasm on the part of the student body. « And that is as it should be. Pep on tap to be turned on at any minute has no merit. And foot ball with all its appurtenances is failing to stir it up spontaneously. It is a happy sign that, the great game of football is beginning to be viewed sanely as only one among the many spectacles col lege has to offer. With John R. Tunis we feel that football as a means of upholding the honor of the alma mater is indeed on the wane. Why cry about it? It needs only decent burial. That is the story of the professional spirit that killed the sport that caused the pep that made the colleges the favorite habitat of the rah rah boys. Politics—Pickled THE spice of life—politics, of course—is receiv ing so much attention nowadays we thought it timely to point to the horrible example of a neigh boring campus which has let its elections become completely pickled. ^ A little university nestled among fir-covered hills is the paragon referred to. There the Alpha party, powerful combine, parcels but the offices among the houses and halls voting "regularly.” Election of class officers is by standing vote, and such a careful check is kept that the house of an “irregular" voter never again gets a chance at an office. Tlie election recently by the frosh of a vice president not on the Alpha ticket caused conster nation among those few to whom politics are still interesting. No free discussion on that campus—or appar ent desire for it. No mushroom publications, no vagabonding, or auditing, of classes, apparently. Moreover, no discontent with the existing order is voiced. "What can you do about it?” shrugged one co-ed there. “And why do anything?” supple mented another. “The house is sitting pretty as it is.” ' Meanwhile the Omega’s are grooming their can didate for May Queen, it being their turn this year to win the honor. Her election, two months off, was safely pickled two years ago with the forma tion of the combine, the Alpha party. Counting the Cost npHE selection of the editor of the Emerald by a committee rather than by popular election, the hullaballoo raised over the legality of publish ing a paper like Socks from Socrates, and now the weighty question before the constitution revision committee as to exactly how questions relating to the document shall find their way to the judiciary, all suggest that the Oregon student is becoming less and less a self-determining creature, that his freedom and ability to govern himself, if any, is declining. Certainly the good old days when every student on the campus knew every other and, moreover, said “Hello” to him in the lane between the library and Villard, are gone. Gone too are the days when the frosh could be counted upon to wear a scrap of green felt on their heads without constant re minder from big paddle-wielding athletes. Now a public relations bureuu sends out the institution's official news. A Greater Oregon com mittee drums up trade for the old University dur ing the summer. Neither you nor anyone else knows every student that passes you in Hello Lane, and you feel it would be absurd to speak to those you do not know. Ours is a large institution now, comparatively speaking, and must present a united front to the world. Defection in the ranks would be fatal. Hence the importance attached to the selection of the Emerald editor by a committee, the concern felt that Socks from Socrates might not be a credit to its alma mater, even though it avowedly did not identify itself with the student body as such, and to the present pondering over the method of bring ! ing a constitutional question before the judiciary 1 proposed by the re-writers of the document. I Less self-determining the students are becom J ing, and it is because of the size of the student body. Student government affairs are of less in i terest to the man in the parking—or rather, to the | man in the library—and his personal contacts! with the powers that be are limited. Those still | I interested" in collegiate governmental affairs, then, take them into their own hands. Feeling respon sible to the world for the acts of the college as a whole and of each student individually, they naturally like to know for what they are taking the praise or blame. So the editor of the Emerald is selected by a committee, concern is felt over lit erary publications not having official sanction, and the judiciary question is pondered long. It is all a result of our enlarged student body. “Elements of Demagoguery” A Course for Campus Politicians FIRST TERM BOOCRACY; GOVERNMENT BY YELLS Technique of keeping your ear to the ground. As soon as you find out which way the thundering herd is stampeding, run out in front and cheer them on. Animated cheer-leading and classical yells on the pattern of Brek-ek-kek-kek-coax-coax, espe cially suited for Greek letter trade. Tumbling and mountebankery to keep your following amused. . . . Once you have got into office by these antics, de termine your policy by inclining your ear toward the loudest yells. . . . Required readings—Aristoph anes: The Knights; Letters and State Papers of Big Bill Thompson of Chicago. Prerequisites: Brass, a loud voice, and big ears. SECOND TERM OMPHOCRACY; GOVERNMENT BY RUMOR Method** of starting and stopping whispering campaigns. Picking up rumors that are blown on the wind. Finding the truth by sorting out scan dals. “The wish the father to the thought”; or the art of believing what you want to. Sowing seeds of discord among the opposition by the judi cious use of rumor. “A common enemy the best political cement.” If there is no common enemy, make one. Hand-to-mouth methods of publicity, especially useful in creating news while you are buying the drinks at the College Side Inn. Cater ing for the women’s votes, by distributing your at tentions. “Divide and rule.” . . . Required read ings—Suetonius; LIVES OF THE CAESARS; Due de Saint Simon: MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF LOUIS XIV; Pope: “At every word a reputation died,” und similar passages. Prerequisites: A strong stomach und u wicked heart; large bump of cred ulity. THIRD TERM PHOBOCRACY; GOVERNMENT BY ESPIONAGE Building up a spy service and a stool-pigeon system. Getting the low-down on friends and foes. How to get people to break down and tell all. Un earthing skeletons in the closet. The art of intimi dation. The organization of Scandal Files: or Mak ing Private Life Public. Technique of Paul-Prying and keyhole-listening. How to scuttle a rival po litical organization by devious and underhand meth ods. How to say one thing and do another. Keep ing your own organization in h&nd, by a judicious mixture of fear and bribery—this last must be done indirectly. Do not sign the checks yourself. How to make promises by proxy: they are more easily broken, without loss of face. How to collect rake off on public contracts, without risk of detection. Handling your yes-men and secret agents: get something on them. Required reading—Memoirs of Talleyrand—that “silk stocking filled with mud,” as Napoleon called him; Memoirs of Fouche; W. J. Burns: The Secret Service; Machiavelli: The Prince. Prerequisites: Inferiority complex, plenty of envy, and a sneaking disposition. If this course goes well, a senior elective will be offered for successful candidates, in CENSOR SHIP AND METHODS OF CONTROLLING PUB LICITY, with special attention to the practice of Napoleon, Mussolini, and Rivera. CAMPUS CRACKS VANISHING MAGNETS: Now that skirts are getting longer, many men are afraid their eyes are on their last legs. • • * THY A PULMOTOR MOTORCYCLE HIT BY TRUCK; MAY DIE — Oregon Journal. • * * A’ LA HEADLINES “Bootleggers Battle With Rifles and Bombs” “Senator Found in Actress’ Arms” “Stunt Flyer Crashes in Holiday Crowd” Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud ? • * * ETIQUETTE HINT: After eating scalding hot soup at a dinner party, wrap the napkin around the throat to avoid catching cold. • * * Then there's that blase individual who carries a thermometer around with him to test the girls be fore he takes them out. * * * TOAST OF THE HAY-FEVER CLl’B "Here's looking at-choo!” • * * One of the Eugene dailies identified A. A. Milne, playwright of note, as a University professor. Won der just how Milne would take that. * * * Here's the NOSE song you've been waiting for: "Am I Blue?” • • » TODAY’S MORAL: Spare the handkerchief and spoil the sleeve. I 1 "■■■" ‘Just a Fetv After-Effects of the Radio Contest’—By Dorothy Shaic **Svn r$ Vn "tV\ e ViX v* V' ?OOY Firosk One "PUtj a KKl ovi Wax'1'?c"AFl,tts NovU&l 1 T It :A 33 wa \y\ & Gx\iea Sv»v\<5 Vk( Ma.^3^ NiovYnClej CKoyus bm Garnwai'PKl Beta IKS. g——«® Three Fr’a Nickel By REIDSON a'..,. - —is Our readers, not*always gentle, we fear, have now and then as sailed your humble editors. They have accused us of trivialities, of inconsequentialities. They have even denounced us for taking great liberty with campus personalities. Dear readers, we hasten to re mind you. When is a triviality not a triviality? When is a dirty crack not a dirty crack? When it is ART. There is the secret. What though our _ names (aye, they have leaked out regardless of our violet-like personalities) are taken in vain? What though we are cut to the heart by these sear ing criticisms? Our art is our ART. So, with thumb on our nose, we go on . . . FABLE FORTY-ELEVEN “To the Brave Belong the Fair” The boys of the-of — gang are just a bunch of jolly good fel lows. High spirited and athletic. They go en masse to the basket ball games and have a game all of their own during the play, re sembling toss the bean bag. These brawny he-men shoulder their way down 13th, shoving all lesser fry from their pathway. There is an inner clique of the gang, composed of the huskiest, who set the example for the less hairy members. Also the - of — leads the students of the University in en forcing the good old Oregon tra ditions, yessir, and keep up the good old Oregon spirit. Why, only recently the —— of — boys decided that booing at games wasn’t ladylike and was an un seemly practice for Oregon stu dents to indulge in. So they said they’d hack the posterior extremity of the offensive rat who booed at the games. Funny thing, though, at the very next game, if a prize had been award ed to the loudest booer, it would have been a toss up which one of the —— of — boys was first. The - of —, oafs (notice the lovely alliterative swing) are lovers of clean fun, and for pre initiation, amuse the visiting edi tors and the co-ed rooting section by dressing up; they really show an amazing amount of originality in their costumes. They have a playful little {mbit of divesting themselves of their garments, be fore the loudly cheering women’s section. Clever skit, what? It is sometimes leveled at the —— of — that they didn’t come to college for the pursuit of knowl edge down the flowery lanes. How unjust is that accusation, how un fair it is shown to be in the light that they presented to a departing English professor who had so loy ally given his spare time and ef forts to building up a strong elev en, a pair of silver, elaborate book ends. Two sterling specimens of manhood in flower known throughout the northwest are the famous quarter-ton babes. The handsome half of the duet is very conscientious, especially about training. He uses a baby blue roadster to travel to and fro, in order to avoid the dan gers of over exertion resulting from too strenuous walking. This car also becomes, on occa sions, a portable Condon libe, a study table, transported to Hen dricks Park. On the whole, the - of — men are the cream of the crop, the hand-picked plums of campus manhood. They represent what every little boy now living in this broad free land of America can become if he keeps himself clean, both morally and physically, re spects womanhood, plays the game square, and thus some day he may too enter the sacred group of the - of —. Student Art Work Exhibited at Baker A group-of student work from each department in the school of architecture and allied arts is to be sent to Baker, Oregon, to be put on exhibit there. Mrs. Carl G. Patterson, of the Oregon Mothers’ club at Baker is sponsoring the exhibit. Mrs. Pat terson is the mother of Joan Pat terson, senior in architecture. 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 LOST—A gold ring, with a brown cameo setting, and a sterling silver ring with Alpha Gamma crest on black onyx, in the mu sic building. Call 1780. Wesley club cabinet—and other members please be present at the church at 9:45 Sunday morning to discuss next term's work. -o Arts and Crafts group—of Philo melete will meet Sunday at 4 o’clock at the Y. W. bungalow. -o Sigma'Xi dinner—to have been at the Faculty club changed to the -4 private dining room at the new men's dorm at 6:30 tonight. -o Tryouts for one-act German plays —today at 4:15 at 106 Oregon building. Plays to be given next term at a “Deutsches Garten Fest.” -o Drama group of Philomelete—will practice at Gerlinger from 1 to 2 o’clock Saturday. Please be on time and know your lines. RULE TAANCE Lee-Duke’s Campus Band Friday and Saturday Nights LEE-DUKE’S CAFE Phone 549 for Reservations rjiafa/aj3Hsiaiaiara®a/3i3MaMaiaisiai3Maiaraj3fSJ3®aiaMSEJ3iafa/aEMar5i3jaEi3lli Save S & H Green Discount Stamps “Eugene’s Own Store” ^ McMorran &. Washburne riTONE 2700 Men’s 4-Piece | Suits With Golf Knickers to Match Every suit is a brand new spring suit—carefully, ex pertly tailored specially selected fabrics—colors that are exactly right (tans and grays) for this type of suit. The coats are the new slightly fitted models—two-button styles and notch lapels. The trousers are medium width —20-inch bottoms comfortable fit through the hips. 1’lus six golf knickers with pleats. This extra pair of knickers will double the life of your suit. FABRICS TWEEDS HOMESPUNS HERRINGBONE Sizes 34 to 44 The Men's Shop—Main Floor “This is the Best Emerald of the Year ... I Think, but Any way I Lean Towards Girls.” To Keep That Swing of Youth . . . It is necessary to wear a type of shoes that fit your feet cor rectly. And you will find that the new stock of shoes that McMorran and Washburne’s are now carrying in their basement store fit well. They are the Vitality Health shoes at $5 and $6 that come in all sizes, and that are very smartly designed for girls’ tastes. Since the World Is Eye-Minded . . . It behooves most of us to keep our eyes in good condition and not to strain them through overuse or faulty sight. Only too often the college student finds that his eyes are for the first time giving him trouble because of the great amount of reading that he does. For headaches see Dr. Ella Meade, 14 8th West, for an examina tion. Feminine Styles Call ! For Feminine Waves But unfortunately many co-eds I are confronted with very , straight locks, so the correct thing to do is to have a per manent wave put in, a good one, you know, like the “Real i istic" waves that the Eugene Hotel Beauty Parlor, phone 647, gives. You'll find, too, that this shop is very good for other kinds of beauty work. | Notes on Fashion’s Whims With the 1930 style frock going feminine it is interesting to note some of the small items of fashion. The waistline, for instance, is no longer the sim ple affair that it was, for now there are peplums around the natural waistline, and they are little ruffles that flare out about the hips. Then there are shirred waistlines, puffed waist lines and for the more tailored dresses there are high belts. All together there is the effect of pronouncing the natural waistline. Fitted in hip lines are also very smart. Colorful Triangles Of Silk Have a very important part to play in the eo-ed’s wardrobe, especially those campus ensem bles that have a way of being so typical and smart. At the U of O Ko-Ed, next to the College Side, you will find not only the scarfs for campus out fits but skirts, sweaters, hats and sport jewelry — enough items to form a very smajt combination. What! No New Spring Coat? But if you are like most col lege girls you wish that you had! At Kafoury’s Department Store on East Broadway there are some of the best looking coats, coats that swagger along in their smartness, but yet are very moderately priced at $12 50 —not that they look like anything but expensive import ed models! To Town, To Town Goes the college girl looking tor the unusual in gifts, though she does not know ex actly what she wants, but at the Alladin Gift Shop, 41 West 10th, she knows that Mrs. Pick ett is so nice about letting her look around and that there are so many exquisite things to choose that the result will be that she will find just what she wants. The Magic Sparkle Of Rhinestones . . . Has a way of doing a good deal to enhance the beauty of a frock, not to mention the set ting that it gives the girl her self. At Laraway’s Jewelry Shop on Willamette there is a galaxy of rhinestone jewelery, for they have just received a shipment of perfectly gorgeous bracelets, necklaces, earrings, and pins that are moderately priced. What Girl Doesn’t Like Corsages? AniJ flowers of all kinds? But it is eas> enough to fulfill her wish for them by calling 616, Raup's Floral Shop. Remem ber that there are a great many birthdays in February and that flowers make a very delightful remembrance, but most of all it is well to remember that cor sages go straight to a co-ed's heart.
