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«* « EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD GDteguu IsiSB limcralii University of Oregon, Eugene Arthur L. Schoenl . Editor William H. Hammond . Business Manager Vinton Hall . Managing Editor ' editorial writers Ron Huhbs. Ruth Newman, Rea Tusstns, Wilfred Brown Nancy Taylor . Secretary UPPER NEWS STAFF Mary Klemm .-. Assistant Manatdn* Editor Harry Van Dine .. Sports Editor Phyllis Van Kimmell .-. Society Myron Griffin .-.Literary Victor Kaufman .... . J: Ralph David . Chief Ni*ht Editor Clatence Craw .-. Makeup Editor GENERAL NEWS STAFF: Dave Wilson, Betty Anne Macduff, Henrietta Steinke, Robert Allen. Henry Lumpee. Elizabeth Painton. Thornton Gale, Lavina Hicks, Jane Archibald, Kath ryn Feldman, Barbara Conly. Jack Beilinyer, Rufus Kimba . Thornton Shaw, Bob Guild. Betty Harcombe, Anne Bricknell, Carol Werschkul, Thelma Nelson, Lois Nelson, Evelyn Shaner, Sterling Green. SPORTS WRITERS: Jack Burke, assistant editor: Ralph Yer gen, Edgar Goodnaugh, Beth Sal way, Brad Harrisor., Phil Cogswell, and Lucille Chapin. Day Editor ... Gen. Assignment .-. Night Editor .*••••• ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS John Rogers Gwendolyn Mfczger ...Dorothy Thomas Henrietta Steinke Warner Guiss BUSINESS STAFF tk/nre Weber, Jr... A«»ocUt* Manager Tony Peterson . Advertising Manager jack Gregg . Assistant Advertising Manager Addison Brockman . Foreign Advertising Manager Jean Patrick . Manager Copy Department Larry Jackson .'•. Circulation Manager Betty Hagen .- Women’s Specialty Advertising Ina Tremblay . Assistant Advsrtising Manager Betty Carpenter . Assistant Copy Manager Edwin Pubols .Statistical Department Dot Anne Warnick . Executive Secretary Katherine Lnughrigc .Professional Division phopping Column . Betty Hagen, Nan Crapy EXECUTIVE ASSISTANTS: Ned Mara, Bernadine Carrico, Helen Sullivan, Fred Keid. __ ADVERTISING SOLICITORS: Harold Short, Auton Bush, Gor don Samuelson. , Production AsHistant . Sterling Green Office Assistants .. Ellen Mills* Jane Lyon 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 rat«a, $2.50 a year. Advertising rates upon application. Phone, Man ager: Office. 1890: residence. 127.______ Fraternity Taxation THERE are two certainties in this world, a cynic once said —death and taxes. Death probably will be with us always unless science succeeds in capitalizing its optimism and creates an anti-death serum; payment of taxes is by no means certain. Loopholes are to be found in every state’s laws and thousands of institutions escape their share of the tax-burden under “exemptions,” declare pro tagonists of the “tax-everything” cult. Particularly do these belligerents flay the ex emption of schools, churches, and charities from taxation for support of the community. Taxes taken off at one point must be added at another. Then why have exemptions in the .first place ? some ask. Churches, because they were more or B less public property, were exempted as early as in colonial days. The custom has persisted and is still in vogue. Another exemption is on schools. Since they are public property and operate for the public good, as do colleges owned by the state or privately en dowed, the county assessor does not put their ap praisal on his books. * * * There are those who ask, “Should a college be taxed?” and who demand that since they enjoy all the privileges that are enjoyed by the land owner of town and country they should be made to shoulder the cost burdens of this privilege. These same persons, using modern arguments on one hand to demand the fullest participation in the bearing of taxes, do not consider the funda mental principle of taxation: ■ability to pay. Are colleges able to pay? A ludicrous situation would arise state colleges are operated on money fur nished by the people to levy a tax on such a col lege would be like charging oneself interest on one’s own money. The ultimate result would be that the colleges would have to ask more money from the state to meet expenses, or else raise their fees to students and in both cases the money would come out of the same source the pocket books of citizens of the state. Eventually this tax is paid by the middle-class citizen he who sends more children to college than any other class and bears the biggest tax burden now. Since taxes are so high, is it right to require students to pay taxes in the university town? Is not the burden of financing their children's college education heavy enough on parents of the state without adding $30 or more taxes each school year If their boy or girl happens to belong to a fra ternity or sorority? They pay out that amount, on an average, now for local taxes on fraternity houses. It is incorrect to assume that because a man or woman can afford to go to college he can afford to pay this extra assessment. Often the case is that great sacrifice on the part of his parents or himself is necessary to negotiate the "going to college" step. His ability to pay taxes is doubtful. Then it is not untoward to ask "Then why should not sororities and fraternities take advan tage of the tax-exemption of state lands and deed their property ovei to the state in the person of the state university?” Such a step, while it would require adjustment of financial relations between the house and the university which holds the deed, the saving of money ordinarily paid by each fra ternityite in local taxes makes it worth considera tion. Who Shall Sell Lids? A GAIN the talk has switched on that sore-thumb topic- the freshman green lid. About a week ago the Oregon Knights went into a huddle with the Order of the O and willed to the latter group the right to sell green lids to the freshmen. In the past few years the Knights have taken charge of ttiat item and pocketed the proceeds from the sale. Before such a switch in authority couid be con summated, however, it would seem that the matter should come before the student affairs committee. There is more to this question than meets the eye at first glimpse. For one thing, what right has the associated student body to require all ^ freshmen to buy green lids—and then turn around and say that they must be purchased only from an honorary organization which will use the money for its own ends ? No more than they could re- j quire all students to buy tickets to a Collegiate | Players drama or attend the Krazy Kopy Krawl; given by Alpha Delta Sigma. If the freshmen can purchase these green lids— the proposal is to change these into green felt hunt er’s slouch hats—from merchants about town, then there is no indictment against the associated stu dents. And any group selling these hats, meeting this competition, will have more moral right to take the freshman’s money. The associated stu dents are not then requiring them to purchase a thing which can be got from only one source. If the Order of the O used the proceeds from their hat sale—assuming that the right is given them to take it over from the Knights—they can not expect the associated students to force fresh rfjen to put money in the Order’s pockets, unless this money is to be used for purposes directly bene ficial to the student body and not to finance pri vate affairs of the Order. The Emerald is open for new definitions of the word “cull.” A professor says a student who flunks out of college is not a cull. Nor is an apple that falls off a tree necessarily a cull, but we’ve found from experience that the majority of these apples under the tree have something the matter with them or they would not have fallen off. The home economics department of an eastern college recently compiled suggested menus for fra ternities and sororities. If they were doing that at our house we’d think the home ec dept, was in volved in a graft with the spinach trust. Rollins college recently included a course in its catalog, called “Evil.”« The professor will be known as “Instructor in Evil.” And we suppose the stu dents enrolled think it’s a pretty tough course. Too bad. The photographers don’t call them “portraits” any more, but "studies.” We suppose that’s be cause you have to study them to see who the per son in the fog is. An optimist, says one of our students, is a fel low who starts out hunting a room to rent with a cornet under his arm.—Ohio State Lantern. ffi” " . “ " —. " “ " ‘iH Oreganized Dementia j ... -■■■■-- ...ffi INFIRMARY The University of Oregon is hot the only one that is concerned with student hospital conditions. The following article was clipped from the pages of the Mudberg university’s daily paper, The Mud hen: On entering: the infirmary reception hall, • the reporter was horrified to notice that there wus no hat rack. He put his hat in his pocket and entered the rooms where the invalid stu dents were languidly lying in beds. Drinks Tea It was a terrible sight. In the same room were three men students, all suffering from different ailments. One of them had a broken leg, another had appendicitis, while the third was a victim of ptomaine poisoning. He had eaten a tuna fish sandwich at a sorority Sun day afternoon tea. Out in the kitchen, the cook was mopping the floor, while a loaf of bread, a bottle of milk, and a pound ofc butter lay exposed on top of the ice box. Suddenly one of the nurses entered, and shoved a stick of wood into the stove without put ting on a pair of gloves. Sickened by such dis organization and unsanitary conditions, the re porter opened the door and staggered out onto the back porch. Woodshed Has Wall He was appalled by the sight that met his eyes there. Only fifty yards away, two dogs were fighting over a discarded soup bone. A broom was leaning carelessly against the wall of the wood shed, within ten feet of a sack of potatoes. The reporter returned to the sick rooms, wish-* ing to interview one of the patients. “They treat us pretty good here,’’ was a state ment received, “but we can’t get Schenectady or Honolulu on the radio." The nurse entered the room with a pitcher full of lemonade. She gave a glassful to the patient, without first providing him with a napkin. Nurse Smiles “Gimme a glass of that too, will you?” asked the reporter politely. The nurse smiled and shook her head. “No," she replied. Such inhospitality was unbearable. Enraged and humiliated, the re porter departed from the pest house. . . ■ ' ■■ ■ t - Shades of Emerald-KORE Contest By Max Kessler >-/S THE POLITICIAN FROM S-A-& THEV WOUi-DN T LET HIM MARE A SPEECH OVER K-O-R-E / DEDICATED TO '"OORO'f" SAMOELSON Moto ARE VOO, 60H.DY? o —- O MERE5 A BI6 BOY FROM KAPPA $16— BEFORE WE ''MIKE" ME FELT 0V5T,.p TOAT"BTW/fc^ PFO/FATfO TO 'JEHUT'KINK?!. -A)M0 rtOtt/'S JeRHYI ms a SEHIOt FHOM SIGMA PI TAV UE ms SUPPOSED TO S/NG, BUT HE ONLY COULD-HIS MUSTACHE GmiUj DEDICATED TO*OICK*JACKSON ANO'*8ILIY*DINSMOR.E 0 • — - 0 TA£ FELLOW from taeta oil U£ COULDN'TSPO*"1 A WORD BECAUSE MIS TON6UE 6Or SO TV6R/6L6 DRV / dedicated to "tHank" Gilbert C'MOli OVER FOR. DINNER. TON/Tel THIS SWEET TWINS r>r . WONT 0ROADCAST 'SHES fl kflPPA ALPHA THETA; t IT ToOk HER SO LONS' TO GET DHtbSEP, 5HS CAME A DAY TOO IATE-A o--- O' pcoicateo to'betty rebec H LO. BETTY> 6-o imk MoqwsWl7mi iMT J minua&f hi Utifo w 0 -uttw^ ~70 German club—meeting tonight at 7:30 at Y. W. C. A. bungalow; discussion, program, and refresh ments. -o Phi Chi Theta—will meet at 107 Commerce at 5 o’clock today. -o Big Sister captains—will meet to day at 5 o'clock in the* women’s lounge of Gerlinger hall. Very important. -o Heads of houses—meet Wednes day noon at the Anchorage. -o--— Phi Beta—meeting today at 4:15 at Susan Campbell hall. Election of officers. -o Susan Campbell hall—will be at the men'3 new dormitory between 3:30 and 7:30 Wednesday night for the dime crawl. -o Amphibian and varsity swimmers, meet tonight in the pool at 7:30 to practice for the triangular i swimming meet with Montana State, Bellingham Normal, and Oregon. Sophomore physical education— majors and minors, and others in terested, meet in the lounge room if Gerlinger hall at 4:45 o’clock. University Girl Scout group and Outdoor club—meet at W. A. A. club rooms in west end of Ger linger hall at 12 today. Bring lunches. -o Congress dull—will meet tonight insteacl of Wednesday. Topic: "Capitalism vs. Socialism.” Worn-; m may attend. Vespers—at 5 o’clock today at the Y. W. bungalow. Bmeruld advertising staff—meet ing tonight at 7 o’clock, at the business office. All salesmen be there. Oregana subscribers—who did not i have 2.50 marked fall term’fees should check at A. S. U. O. of fices. New subscriptions can still be placed on spring fees. -—o Athletic managers—will have a , group picture taken in front of Friendly hall at 12:45 today. -o Members of Introductory Speech courses—are requested to attend the men’s varsity debate with O. 3. C. at 7:45 Wednesday evening in Guild hall. -o Theta Sigma 1’hl—meeting up stairs at College Side Inn today noon. Frosh men’s squad—meeting at 7 p. m. Thursday, in room 2 of Friendly hall. Albany teams will go through their entire debate, giving rebuttal speeches, for prac tice and demonstration. • -o All students—who have filled out the Emerald survey questionnaire hand them to the house represent ative or the Emerald business of fice. -o Ye Tabard Inn—meets tonight at Dr. Ralph D. Casey’s dwelling, 281 11th avenue East. Professors To Talk At Training School Four professors of the Univer sity of Oregon are to speak at the training school for leaders, spon sored by the Council of Churches in Eugene. They are Nelson L. Bossing, associate professor of ed ucation; Jesse H. Bond, professor in personnel management; W. G. Beattie, assistant director of the extension division; and Harom S. 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Announce Council To Auard, Fellowships Fellowships for research in hu manistic studies, especially the fields of philosophy, philology, lit erature, linguistics, archaeology and art, musicology and history, will be awarded this year by the American Council of Learned So cieties for the first time, it was announced recently by the council. The announcement states, “Ap- ■ plicants must be citizens of the 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—Red Schaeffer fountain pen, between Journalism shack and business administration building. Return to Emerald business office. LOST—Sunday night between Ferry street and old library, a belt watch chain with silver clasp. Finder please leave at Co-op and receive reward. United States or Canada .. . . and must be actually engaged in the research for which they seek as sistance. They Should possess either a doctor’s degree or its equivalent in training, study, and experience.” Applications should be made im mediately, as the appointments are made in March. Details may be obtained by addressing the Per maitent Secretary, American Council of Learned tlocieties, 907 15th st., N.W. Washington, D.C. Of Course * The Majority of You ilways take care of those trivial details that matter so much . . . such a3 shoe shines . . . but occa sionally it is a good idea to remind you of them . . . particularly during the end of the term when all atten tion is on grades. And Df course the logical place to come is the U. OF O. SHOE SHINE PARLOR Alder & 13th “Just around the corner from the "Lemon ‘O’.” TYPEWRITER PREJUDICE WE’ HAVE ALL MAKES—WE CAN SATISFY IT GET A TYPEWRITER—USE IT YOUR GRADES WILL BE BETTER Buy or Rent at Student Terms Office Machinery & Supply Co. 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