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♦♦ ♦* EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD ♦♦ ♦♦ I. ■■ — ■ —■—■——-— ®«gun ®aila lattetalii University of Oregon, Eugene Arthur L. Schoeni . William H. Hammond Vinton H. Hall . EDITORIAL WRITERS Ron Hubbs, Ruth Newman, Rex Tussing, Wilfred Brown Nancy Taylor . Secretary . Editor . Business Manager . Managing Editor Mary Klomm . Harry Van Dine Dorothy Thomas Victor Kaufman . Ralph David . Carl Monroe . Evelyn Shaner ... UPPER NEWS STAFF . Assistant Managing Editor . Sports Editor . Society Editor Z.Z.ZZZZ.. P. I. P. Editor . Chief Night Editor ’. Makeup Editor . Theater Editor GENERAL NEWS STAFF: Dave Wilson, Betty Anne Macduff, Rufus Kimball, Elizabeth Painton, Henrietta Steinke, Merlin Blais, Eleanor Jane Ballantyne. Lenore Ely, Bobby Reid, Sterling Green, Helen Chaney. Thornton Gale, Carol Wersch kul. Jack Bellinger, Roy Sheedy, Thornton Shaw. Carol Hurlburt, Anne Bricknell, Thelma Nelson, Lois Nelson. SPORTS STAFF: Jack Burke, assistant editor: Phil Cogswell, Brad Harrison, Ed Goodnaugh, Spec Stevenson, and Beth Salway. Day Editor .. Night Editor .Neil Taylor Beatrice Bennett ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS Helen Rankin, Virginia Richmond, Eleanor Wood BUSINESS STAFF (F^rge Weber, Jr. -.—.. Associate 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 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, Bernadins Carrico, Helen Sullivan, Fred Reid. ADVERTISING SOLICITORS: Larry Bay, Harold Short. Auton Bush, Ina Tremblay. Production Assistant . Vincent Mutton Office Assistants . Ruth Covington, Nancy Taylor The Oregon I)?»ily 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, 12.50 a year. Advertising rates jpon application. Phone, Man ager: Office, 1895: residence, 127. Death of a Nation ALARMIST Paul Reveres with tales of race ex tinction and too low birth rates have been riding their way through the nation’s press and magazines scattering column inches of warnings and factual evidence of deterioration. And their heaviest guns are trained on educa tion as they point out that the best educated people have the smallest families while the poorer, more undesirable, classes are flooding the nation, and the world, with their progeny. Whereas the families of a generation ago aver aged f>.44 children each, the present average is but 3.35 per family, studies made by Baber and Ross of Wisconsin show. The absolute rate of decrease is such, according to these authors, that the second generation after the present one will produce fami lies with an average of 1.05 childrerl, of one-third of the minimum necessary for continuance of the race. Because they do not stress enough of the cre ative work, which Is said to have a psychological effect leading to a desire for family life, women’s colleges have been attacked for “prejudicing their graduates against wifehood and motherhood." There are those Reveres who see in the present decline in the birth rate the age-old tendency of the controlling social group to disappear because of this decline, pointing to the deterioration of Rome as an example. Human evolution cannot be primarily intellec tual for the reason that the intellectual elements of any population always show a retarded rate of propagation. With evidence presented in cold fig ures, the trend seems to point toward a crossroads somewhere in the future. America is educating the “great milieu” of her population. With this education comes an accepted decline in procreation. Will the upper and middle classes, then, die out and the future America be populated from below ? Are these writers, these Paul Reveres of the printed page, visionaries or do they see a sequel to Gib bons’ “Rise and Fall of Rome” in the making? Library Tennis Courts SPRING term is tennis weather. Campus courts out on Emerald street are usually crowded on sunny days and students have to reserve courts to insure themselves a chance to play. On account of the regular courts being so far from the campus students show an inclination to play on the library courts. Consequently they are almost always full and it is entirely a hit and miss affair if the players are lucky enough to get a court. A better system might be to sign up for the courts at the men’s gymnasium. Handball courts may be reserved ahead of time in this manner and the system which has proved satisfactory in that Bport could be applied to tennis. Making Up Lost Sleep STUDKNTS who spent a good part of the spring vacation catching up with the sleep they lost studying for exams and typing term papers will be surprised to learn that it is impossible to make up lost sleep. No less an authority than Dr. Donald A. Laird, chief of the psychological laboratory at Colgate, makes that claim based on research performed on a group of students who were kept awake all night. Dr. Laird will be remembered as the professor who "would not teach co-eds for love or money” because they "catered" to the professors to get their grades. Experiments conducted on the sleep-losing re search began Saturday night, when the students were kept awake all night. They were given 13 hours’ sleep Sunday night. Their reactions on Sun day and Monday mornings w'ere studied and it was found that they were 50 per cent more tired Mon day noon than they wotdd have been if they had slept eight hours for two nights. The 13 hours' sleep almost entirely restored to normal the faculty of memory and the ability to concentrate, but their emotional reactions were be low par—the students showing a tendency to ex cessive laughing, impatience, loss of temper and desire to be alone. There was a marked careless ness in their personal appearance also, the research showed. Evenness of habits and regular hours are essen tial to the best results in mental and physical activ ity. Such a lesson is sometimes never learned by some college students, but the one who is awake to himself and his work soon realizes the necessity for both. Want a Silver Cup? EVER shoot a round of golf in less than r»0? Probably most of the readers of this editorial have not. But this fact does not keep one from having a chance to win a silver cup in the Emerald spring handicap tournament which will be run off starting next week. Operating under the handicap system, everyone shoots 18 holes to establish a handicap and after that every man has an even chance, a duffer may beat a Moe because of the advantage the handicap gives him. Plenty of Oregon men play golf. A visit to the courses around Eugene show this to be a fact. These same men have been bashful about entering the spring handicap because they have inferiority complexes, not realizing that a regular 50-shooter can win from 40-stroke men in handicap play. Fill out the coupon in today’s Emerald, both men and women. Three silver loving cups and a golf bag have been lined up as prizes for the win ners. Here is a chance for those men who play for the enjoyment to capitalize on their ability as well. It’s an ill wind that blows no one good. A gentleman down near the University of North Caro lina complained that fraternities did not buy so many paddles as they used to for use on their frosh. There was at least one advantage in hell week. Co-eds at the University of Georgia have risen up in arms to demand “more and longer dates,” says the Notre Dame Scholastic. Whose arms? Students at Ohio Wesleyan are dodging the ban on automobiles by taking their girl friends for air plane ride's instead. Wait till the dean of women there finds out how hard it is to walk home from one of those! California's track coach is going to use moon shine on his cinder aces and have them work out at night occasionally. A lot of athletes we know already do. Oklahoma wants credit hours given for hiking. That would give the co-eds an unfair advantage. Freshman men are better spellers than seniors. Not as far as women are concerned, Oscar. We flunked our geology exam flat. Probably because we took too much for granite. “Fullerton Debaters Win, Lose” — headline. What else is there to do? ffl-----" Editorial Shavings A college president says the young man's most difficult problem is picking the right girl to marry. Which proves that the prexy has funny ideas as to who does the choosing.—Washington State Ever green. * • • Even radio announcers sometimes get balled up. One announced the latest hit: “If I had a talk ing picture of you singing in the bathtub with your sunny side up.”—Purdue Exponent. • • • Tiny Tim writes in to say he saw a student cut a worm in two the other day because it looked lonesome.- Michigan Daily. • • • The flame of a candle can be felt two miles away, a popular cartoonist claims. Fraternity firemen have been working on just that supposition all winter.—Idaho Argonaut. SI — ----—..—"—If! ThiCo llegi a tePu Ise Pi.—.—..——..—..—»—*——..—.'£ LITTLE BIO SHOTS (Minnesota Daily) The little big shot makes a loud noise on this campus. And an empty one. For he usually car ries no more than a wooden gun. A little big shot is a person of small or indifferent merits on whom chance or circumstance has heaped title, office and power incommensurate with the little big shot’s ability to administrate this responsibility with tact, wisdom and graciousness. The little big shot, there fore, stands cm the social scale directly below the “straw boss." He is the biggest obstacle in the path that leads toward government by an aristoc racy of merit and excellence. The classic American example of the little big shot, is the pompous corporal whom Washington reprimanded at Valley Forge for refusing to help his men lift a log into place because it might injure his dignity. Dignity is a beautiful cloak for a kind and gracious man, but it looks like a rag when it covers an ungenerous nature. The men who are least sure of their positions are the ones who are most scrupulous of their dignity. Really good men can afford to make some mistakes. They never need to condescend, for they never unduly exalt themselves. Power is a thrilling experience. So is cham pagne. Post-Volsteadian university students, who are just getting their first taste of both, are in danger of letting it go to their heads. This is a warning. Whenever a man has a new honor or office granted him, he must tear one leaf from the calendar of his dignity. Otherwise he stands in imminent danger of becoming a little big shot. 1 If there were no such thing as a sense of humor, it is said, there would be no colleges—or college students. That’s the assumption, at any rate, that led to putting the Seven Seers contribution box in the lobby of the old library. Maybe the entrance to the libe isn’t just exactly what could be called a lobby, but nevertheless it does have a sort of a piggish in fluence over those laboring inside. * * * Before the box could be slick ed up and decorated with a new sign, it had to be cleaned out. Among the gum wrappers, cig arette butts, and soiled life savers that hud to be removed from the long-dormant recepta cle, the only pieces of writing that might be classified as hu mor were a part of an English assignment, a couple of unmen tionable poems, and a real, cer tified, gilt-edged, dyed-in-wool love letter. Being true gentlemen, of course, we wouldn’t think of printing any thing like that, or even going into the details of the touching little lovey dove note. The hand writ ing was so scratchy that we nobly refrained from reading most of it. Anyway, we don’t even know who this guy, Baby, is. Better look into your asbestos files, Baby, and if you miss the letter, come around and we'll talk business with you. * * * Since the beautiful new pos ter has been glued on the box, however, contributions have been flocking in. We have two, so far, both on the same piece of paper. * * * “The dralt green lockers,” says this campus cynic, in a bold, daring piece of peneilment, “in the basement of the men’s gym make it appear abnost as poorly lighted as Condon hall.” * * * That ought to hold the regents for a while, and here's another sock in a different direction: “Since ‘Lifebuoy’ has been ad vertised extensively, it is an in tellectual insult to tell a man he doesn't know his own strength.” * * * If the generous author will kind ly step to the front, we'll present him with our last term's grade card. One professor showed enough interest yesterday to ask if we'd seen her, or did we see her, seer, or something like that. Anyway, he contributed a pun. * * * It is rumored, too, that some of the members of the class could n't understand why Prof. Caswell should ask them to nudge A1 Browne when he himself had put him to sleep. * * * There is always a big demand for poetry—you know what that is, soul food. The box just in side the door of the old library will hold exactly 1 3-8 cubic feet of poetry, or the same amount of cigarette butts. Kummage your quips and poems. We can use them. FORUM { UPHOLDS PRESENT HONOR ROLL To the Editor: 1 was interested in your editor ial against the honor roll and the clever comparison of the baseball throw and the shot put. I think, however, it overlooks an essential truth—namely, the great import ance of quality as opposed to quan tity. The point-system honor roll which you recommend, would put a premium upon the students who carry a large load even with a ' somewhat mediocre quality of work. I know, it is a pioneer tradition to be versatile and adaptable, jack ‘ of all trades and master of none, but we are out of the pioneer stage 1 now and we must escape from the jack-of-all-trades complex if we are going to make a real improve ment in our civilization. The men [ who have concentrated on a few | things which they have done to , to the utmost of their ability (not ; the men who have done a little bit of everything cleverly) are the ones who have made the greatest i contributions to their generations and made the deepest marks upon ■ history. Those who win contests in the Olympic games or play on the world's concert stage or gain rec ognition among the greatest schol ars or make the significant contri butions to science, are the kind of men more likely to be honored by the present system than by a point system. Indeed, the change might even be made the other way—to put a higher premium upon excel lence of work in two or three al lied subjects, lest we keep on in dulging ourselves in versatility, variety, and fickleness while we miss the deeper satisfaction of genuine achievement. I think also that this is a matter in which the influence of the Em erald is of considerable importance on the campus. WALTER C. BARNES. a-—--® (Two Heilig theatre tickets will be given as a prize for the best contribution to this column this week. Contributions may l»e dropped in the Seven Seers box in the library, or left on the bul letin hoard in the journalism build ing.) That the Emerald, student newspaper was named thus be cause Joaquin Miller, great west ern poet, called Oregon the “Em erald state.” That Dr. F. G. G. Schmidt has a clock that has been with him in classrooms on the University campus for 83 years. That “Beaver,” the present name of the Oregon State college stu dent annual, was the name of the University of Oregon yearbook just before it was changed to “Oregana.” Instructors Attend Meeting in Spokane Carl L. Huffaker and Fred L. Stetson, instructors in the school of education, left for Spokane yes terday to attend the Inland Em pire meeting, held April 10 to 12. Henry D. Sheldon, dean of the school of education, who is on a two weeks tour of the northwest, will also be present at the gather ing of educators. He is scheduled to speak before the Research As sociation on "The Program of Re search in the History of Educa tion.” Professor Stetson will also take part in the meeting. On Saturday Professor Huffa ker and Professor Stetson will re turn to Eugene, while Dean Shel don will continue his tour through Washington and northern Idaho. F I Ludford’s For PAINTS BRUSHES VARNISH ENAMEL LACQUER GLASS WAX POLISHERS OIL PAINTS CANVAS PASTELS WATER COLORS | PICTURE FRAMING, ETC. Ludford’s 55 West Broadway Phone 749 Dr. Gustav Muller Accepts Oklahoma University Offer Oregon Professor Will Go To Eastern School Next Fall Completing five years of suc cessful teaching at the University of Oregon, Dr. Gustav Muller, as sistant professor of philosophy, has accepted an offer to become associate professor of philosophy at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, Oklahoma. Dr. Muller will assume his new position with the beginning of the 1930 fall term. Dr. Muller, who was born in Switzerland, has attended school and taught in Switzerland, Ger many, Italy and England. He has written a large number of im portant articles and books, chief of which are “The Philosophy of History,” and “American Philoso phy,” both in German. The latter Is just now in preparation. He is also author of “A Systematic In troduction to Philosophy,” written in English and used as a textbook in his classes. The Oregon philosopher is a member of the American Associa tion of University Professors and the American Philosophical asso ciation. He has had numerous ar ticles published in the magazine of the organization known as Kantgessenschast, which is con sidered the leading philosophical society of the world. Esther Scriven, ’26, Is Campus Visitor Esther Davis Scriven, graduate of the school of journalism in 1926, was a visitor on the campus yes terday, renewing old acquaintanc es. Mrs. Scriven is now living in New York, and stopped here on her way back home after visiting relatives in California and her par ents in Wolf Creek, Oregon. She is a member of Gamma Phi Beta and Theta Sigma Phi. CLASSIFIED ADS PIANO JAZZ—-Popular song3 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 [campus : Bullet i Woman and Her Sphere—group of Philomelete will meet .Sunday from 5 to 6 in the woman’s room of Gerlinger hall. -o Varsity Managers elub—will meet in room 1 of Johnson hall at 4 today. International Relations rlnb—will meet tonight at 7:30 in the men's room of Gerlinger hall. -o Phi Beta—Regular meeting at 4:15 at Susan Campbell hall. All members attend. -o Students taking entrance exams— may take psychology Friday at 4 in 101 Condon, and English Sat- ] urday morning at 9 in 206 Villard.! Zada French—will speak to Pro fessor Tuttle's class in "Club Leadership” at 4 o’clock, room 3, Education, today. Public invited. -o Y. VV. cabinet—meeting today at 4 o’clock, at bungalow. Important. -o Interfraternity council—will meet today at 5 o’clock in room 110, Johnson hall. | -o VV. A. A. mass meeting—this aft- I ernoon at 5 o'clock in room 121, | Gerlinger hall. Very important. -o- J W. A. A. archery—will meet today { at 4 o'clock. PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENTS Theta Sigma Phi announces the: pledging of Beatrice Ernstein Ben- i nett, of Silverton. Sigma Nu announces the pledg ing of Glenn Godfrey of Eugene, Oregon. Oregon Alpha of Phi Delta The ta announces the pledging of Lynn Long, Dallas, Oregon. Bachelordon announces the pledging of Charles Newell, of Newberg, Oregon. Seniors Orders for caps and gowns and the commencement an nouncements must be placed at Co-op by April 26. sum...............nrniing 1 NEXT SUNDAY 1 11:00 A. M. “Does Belief in Immortality Make Any Difference?” First Congregational Church Clay E. Palmer, Minister Those Outings For picnics and week-end trips, let us make up your t lunches, sandwiches, salads and whatever else you may ? want for an enjoyable trip. Let us supply you with punch, wafers and imported delicacies. TABLE SUPPLY CO. + + 4* 1QRILLE J^ANCE Lee-Duke’s Campus Band Friday and Saturday Nights LEE-DUKE’S CAFE Phone 549 for Reservations a Barnes Receives First Editions of History Book Volume Traces Rise of Corn Laws From 1660 To Year 1846 Dr. Donald G. Barnes has just •eceived copies of the first edition )f his work, “History of the Eng ish Corn Laws” from the publish es, George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., of London. The book is the iecond volume of a series of three w itudies of social and economic his :ory, sponsored by the London School of Economics. The volume, which is a study of Lhe protective tariff and a com plete history of the English grain :ariff question, traces the history Df the so-called “Corn Laws” from their beginning in 1660 up to the /ear 1846. Almost eight years of intensive research were spent by Director Barnes in compiling the data for Lhe book. 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