EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD "
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University of Oregon, Eugene
Arthur L. Schoenl . Editor
William H. Hammond . Business Manager
Vinton H. Hall . Managing Editor
EDITORIAL WRITERS
Ron Hubbs, Ruth Newman, Rex Tussinir, Wilfred Brown
Nancy Taylor . Secretary
Mary KVmm .
Harry Van Dine
Dorothy Thomas
Victor Kaufman ,
Ralph David .
Carl Monroe .
Kvelyn Shaner
UPPER NEWS STAFF
.. Assistant Managing Editor
. Sports Editor
. Society Editor
"ZZZ.””. P. I. P. Editor
.. Chief Night Editor
. Makeup Editor
.. Theater Editor
GENERAL NEWS STAFF: Dave Wilson. Betty Anne Macduff,
Rufus Kimball, Elizabeth Palnton, Henrietta Stoinke, 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 . Willis Duniway
Night Editor . Mahr Reymers
ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS
Esther Hayden Jessie Steele
BUSINESS STAFF
CF/rg® 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, Bernadine Carrico,
Helen Sullivan, Fred Reid.
ADVERTISING SOLICITORS: Katherine Laughrage, Jack
Grjgg, George Branstator, John Painton.
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Office Assistants .Ruth Milligan, Nora Stewart
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Let Vodvil Live!
^ FTER dozens of hours of work had been put
into writing- songs, preparing a continuity, and
selecting choruses for the Junior Vodvil, the whole
idea seems on the verge of being suddenly dropped
because it does not conform to regulations laid
down by the University to someone who failed to
communicate this information to the Vodvil offi
cials.
The rules were stiff enough. These officials
have promised everything but their change of sox
and made the widest sort of concessions if the fac
ulty would only let them go forward with the work
so well begun.
To say that too much time was spent on the
Vodvil in past years may be true, but the show’s
directors worked out a plan which would guarantee
a minimum of time to be spent in practices this
year and still insure a presentable show.
All-night rehearsals would be discontinued; fac
ulty advisors would be on hand to oversee practices
and improve the tone of them; both the healtli and
grades of participants would be passed upon before
they could take part; vodvil "patter” would be cen
sored. The only thing which was not promised was
that the cast would refrain from practice prior to
the first performance. What more could be asked ?
At the first of the year when it was announced
that there would be no Junior Vodvil, the Emerald
soliloquized on its passing, since it seemed to have
been slain and buried. But when it was revived
and plans went ahead for a new show, the Emerald
recapitulated.
To say that the campus is tired of the vodvil
is a gross misstatement how then explain the fact
that 200 co-eds turned out for chorus tryouts?
Many times the number of men necessary Rlso tried
out for the male chorus. Attendance at vodvils
in the past has always been good and if the show
presented seemed a little under the calibre of $5
road shows, no one cared. Students expected that
to be the case when they bought their tickets.
The student affairs committee meets today to
decide on the fate of the vodvil so well-launched
on its way to a successful showing. If they refuse
to take into consideration the concessions promised
by the managers of the spectacle and vote "thumbs
down” on it on the grounds that the campus does
not want it, they will make a bad mistake, not to
mention the injustice wrought on those many stu
dents who have already spent many hours of work
planning for it. The vodvil is well started; let it
proceed.
Not So Studious
THAT Oregon students draw twice as many
books from the library as do students in other
schools of its size, as noted in the Emerald recently,
does not necessarily argue that the University at
tendants are more studious.
Instead, it may just as easily be read that the
University of Oregon has less books available for
each man or woman. The number of volumes
placed on the reserve shelves for one-hour periods
counts up. Indeed, it may count up so fast that
Oregon’s lead over her nearest rival, Kansas, is
easily understood.
So study is still a problem—with a new one
added. Have we too many books on reserve?
All-Year Schooling
GOING to school whole year round instead of
laying off three months for the summer vaca
tion is being talked in educational circles, especially
in relation to elementary and high schools.
For the college student such a plan would be
impractical because of the more intense mental
activity required which would act against the
health and best efforts of the student. The ques
tion of finances also enters in the case of college —
students need a summer vacation period to earn
money enough to tide them over the next school
year. This is probably the biggest argument
against all-year schools in the higher levels.
Dr. Charles Hubbard Judd, of Chicago univer
sity, one of the supporters of the move on the
ground "that children have a right to continue to
think during the summer months,” errs in part on
this point. It is during the summertime when the
student is out of the classroom and in intimate
contact with society that he learns how to live in
the world in which he will have to live. It is then
he has a chance to make worthy use of his leisure
time, which is one of education’s cardinal princi
ples. He can practice what he has learned in school.
The summer vacation is the best period for prac
tical socialization. Most students find work to do
during the lay-off and get an informal contact to
the business world for which the schools are pre
paring a formal introduction later on. Their trav
els and contacts with fellow men in work and play
are of definite value in the shaping of the man or
woman. Only after such a point has been settled
can the nation turn its attention away from “Will
it do any good?” to "What will it cost?{”
Panhellenic Plans Changes
CONSIDERATION of abolishing the practice of
releasing rushees from further dates during
rush week is one of several contemplated changes
in the local Panhellenic government which have
been turned over to a revision committee.
A rushee, in the first place, is not the originator
of dates with an organization. Her obligation is
a matter of accepting the invitations of a house
or houses and it is highly discourteous to deprive
her of the privilege of fulfilling this obligation.
Women the age of the average college freshman,
too, are not past the impressionistic age. Such
drastic action, when due to no particular guilt of
their own, is apt to prove more of a blow than
members of the sorority who have the advantage
of one or more years of experience influencing
their sympathy, may realize.
There, no doubt, would always be exceptional
cases, but this, too, will probably be cared for by
the committee and allowances made.
The main difficulty always experienced by in
coming officers of Panhellenic has been the inade
quacy of its rules. With this in mind, care was
taken to include both outgoing and new material
on the committee to aid in the elimination of much
ambiguousness.
The average boy of six never heard of George
Washington and has no desire to become president
some day, we read in the papers. The same holds
true, at least in the latter case, with most boys
of 26 also.
A questionnaire sent out at Minnesota showed
that men prefer both blondes and all-talking pic
tures. And after they’re married they may find
they got a combination of the two for a wife.
Only 23 co-eds out of 400 at Northwestern in
tend to get married after they graduate, a recent
survey showed. The other 377 have evidently had
either too many dates or none at all.
“Marshfield Youth Fried by Governor”—head
line in Register. Maybe being a recent release from
prison does sort of cook one’s goose socially.
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WHY IS A SPORTS BUG?
(Minnesota Daily)
Primo Camera, a giant imported from Italy,
has been making “appearances" in various cities
of the United States, knocking out "push-overs”
in a few minutes, making an unreasonable amount
of money, and is being ballyhooed for the world's
heavyweight championship.
George Herman "Babe” Ruth signs a new con
tract with the New York Yankees, American league
baseball team, calling for $1G0,000 for the next two
years.
Colleges are laying plans to complete work on
stadia already started, and many more colleges are
laying plans to build new ones. Enormous sums
of money are being spent for athletic “plants” in
all sizes and classes of universities all over the
country. “Simon-pure” amateurs get more for
their services, playing exhibitions in sport-mad sec
tions of the nation, than they could selling bonds
or in other estimable occupations.
What is it leading to? Why is the public will
ing to pay millions of dollars annually to see ath
letic competition ? Why is a winning football team
a greater asset to a university than a faculty of
Rhodes scholars? Why is a letter on a sweater
a greater honor than making Phi Beta Kappa or
Tau Beta Pi ? What is the lure of seeing two men
fight in a roped arena, or of seeing 22 young men
strive mightily to push a small oval-shaped object
up and down a large expanse of close-cropped turf?
America, not only the “common herd” but col
legiana as well, is sports-mad. Rabid fans of any
and every description collect in every corner of
the country to see athletic events. People travel
miles to see physical contests of every description.
Looking into the matter discloses the age-old
magnet of physical combat. Possibly, it is an in
herited instinct—if there be such things coming
down to modern days from cave-man ancestors.
Man, if he possesses this instinct, must find an out
let for it in physical exertion. Inasmuch as most
of us are not fitted to excel in any sport or ath
letic competition, or are forced by sedentary occu
pations to indulge in only the mildest forms of
exercise, the outlet is furnished by watching others
perform. Surely, no one can deny that a thrill
almost as great as playihg, ourselves, comes from
watching others.
unrortunateiy, sport, ime almost everymmg
else in this country, was immediately commercial
ized. Efforts were made by far-seeing gentlemen
to satisfy the demand for seats to watch highly
trained athletes perform. Result: an ever-increas
ing growth in stadia and similar structures.
Where it will lead nobody knows. Few care.
If the public wants to pay money to watch others
play, why not let them do it ? One could propose
any number of arguments against the growth of
athletic commercialization, but they could all be
met with the retort that it’s the public’s money,
and that they have a perfect right to spend it
where and when they choose.
Reformers may howl, agitation make its ap
pearance, but it hardly seems likely that America,
with its present sports era, will ever go back to
the days of “sport for sport's sake.”
Tf* SEVEN
SEEKS
For Homo unexplainable rea
son, the 3,000 or so students on
the campus kic ked through with
another piece of anatomical wit.
To-wit:
(J. “Does she know her anat
omy?”
A. “Yes, in Deady.”
* * *
“Why the checker-board effect
on the doors?” demanded a daz
zled pedestrian as Bill Hayward
and his new car approached. Bill
stepped on the gas.
“It's your move,” he said.
WONDER HOW IT HAPPENS
THAT ASTRONOMY, NAVIGA
TION, AND GOLF ARE SUCH
POPULAR COURSES THIS
SPRING ?
* * *
Today’s Petrified Analogy
A flat-footed girl resembles
the Coliseum because of fallen
arches.
* * *
Some kind soul wrote this poem
for us. Isn’t it cunning?
Sonnet to an Oyster
These lines are in praise of the
oyster,
Who doesn’t pretend to be swell,
He wears all his bones on the out
side,
Inside, a remarkable shell;
If you should remark on his rough
ness.
He’d tell you he didn't care,
He was only minding his business,
And getting all of his share.
* * *
Pan that poem if you dare! If
nothing else, it does lead up to
what Pat Morrissrtte told mem
bers of one of Iiis elasses. He
said they were like oysters, and
eould produce pearls if he’d
throw sand on them.
“I stopped reading the Regis
ter when I got stomach trouble,”
sail! a man questioned by a stu
dent on the reader-interest sur
vey being conducted by one of
the classes. A lot of people' flunk
courses that way, too.
* * *
Believe It or Not
There is more than one way
to spell Oregon: Oregnn, Ory
gun, Oregon, Ohreigunne, Or
reeghnn, Ooaregoughnne, etc.
This is too much.
DR. J. R. WETHERBEE
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Office rhone 1601
Residence 1230-M
801-2-3 Miner Bldg.
Eugene, Oregon
Spring
Dances
With all the dances
and social events of
spring trem in the off
ing, it is necessary
that you look your
best at all times . . .
and one can never look
\vell unless his hair is
neatly cut. Let us -fix
you up for those week
end events.
YE OLDE
OREGON
Barber Shop
j Do You Know?
a'.——.is
(Contributions entered in the
contest for the Heilig theatre
tickets should be dropped in the
Seven Seers box in the main libe,
or placed on the bulletin board of
the journalism building.)
That Dr. Clarence W. Spears’
name appeared, in some form or
another, 120 times in the “Spears
Edition” of the Emerald?
—D. D.
* * *
That the first purchase made
by the University of Oregon
board of regents was a cloek?
This time piece is still running
in good shape in spite of its
half century of age and hangs
in the University depot.
—A.L.S.
* * *
That from soil dug up from 300
feet underground by a well drill
er near Eugene, a lemon tree
sprouted and grew? No seed had
been placed in tjie soil.
—R. T.
That the University of Ore
gon is a nest of law-breakers?
In four college years there are
approximately 1,219,759 viola
tions by students of but one
state law and one federal law—
each concerning tobacco. (Ex
planation tomorrow.)
—R. T.
FORUM j
ATHLETICS—SCHOLARSHIP
To the Editor:
I was interested in the story in
Wednesday's Emerald which ran
under the headline "Athletes on
par with other men, new data
shows.” Permit me to question
the correctness of statements con
tained in it. While it is true that
grades have been shown to be
hardly a measure of ability and
future success, and while there
are athletes who succeed as well
or better than non-athletes, it
would be incorrect to conclude
that participation in athletics is in
itself the direct cause of such suc
cess in life.
A statistical research undertak
en by Colonel Rees, assistant vice
president of the American Tele
phone and Telegraph company,
comes to this challenging conclu
sion :
"It can be safely stated, it is
thought, that participation in ex
tra-curricular activities has not
as much good influence on the
student’s future as a good record ;
of scholarship. As an illustration j
of this, in scholarship we find that '
men in the first tenth of their i
class, who constituted some l.r) J
per cent of the group studied, ob- j
tained a median salary of 40 per |
cent more than the median of the
whole group at twenty-five years,
out of college. Men of ‘substantial
campus achievement’ constituted
20 per cent of the group studied
at twenty-five years out of col
lege, and obtained a median sal
ary of 20 per cent above the me
dian for the whole group. On this
basis only, it appears that ‘sub
stantial campus achievement’ does
have some rather definite bearing
on the progress in the Bell sys
tem, but that its influence is not
so great as that of high scholar
ship.”
—J.R.M.
Wright Scores Highest
On Oregon Rifle Team
The first stage of firing for the
National Intercollegiate matches
has been completed by the Ore
gon rifle team, and results have
been mailed to headquarters of
the 9th Corps Area at San Fran
cisco.
The first stage consists of the
prone and sitting positions. There
are four stages in all.
The ten high individual scores,
prone and sitting respectively, are
as follows: Wright, 100, 97; Lives
ly, 98, 95; Powell, 96, 95; Nelson,
99, 94; Reiling, 96, 92; Conder, 95,
92; Raynor, 96, 98; Fowler, 98, 88;
Smith, 82, 85; Cox, 97, 87.
Other schools participating in
the match are University of Wash
ington, Oregon State college (two
teams), and Montana State col
lege.
Women Urged To Try
For Hockey Teams
“Women, it is not too late to
report for hockey and make a
team,” Miss Janet Woodruff,
coach, declared today.
Hockey practices are held every
day at 4 o'clock on the field be
hind Gerlinger hall, with coaches
out every day. Some of these
coaches were members of the
team that played the All-American
hockey team, and so will be able
to teach technique to those not so
fortunate. Naomi Moshberger,
head of hockey, was center for
ward on the Oregon team, Miss
Woodruff adds.
Dance for ten skinny little dimes
—at the Old Mill.
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11:00 A. M.
“Does Belief in Immortality Make
Any Difference?”
First Congregational Church
Clay E. Palmer, Minister
Spring Dances
Those decorations you have planned for that spring
dance will probably require paint, wall board, plaster,
building papers. You can get all these from us.
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E. W. Allen To Be
Dinner Speaker
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Dean Will Address Sigma |
Della Chi Alumni
Eric W. Allen, dean of the school
of journalism, will speak at the
annual founder's day dinner of
Sigma Delta Chi, international
professional journalism fraternity,
on Friday evening, April 18, in
Portland. The meeting was orig
inally planned for April 4, but was
postponed as Dean Allen was un
able to attend.
The invitation received by Dean
Allen was written by F. H. Young,
editor of Chapman’s Financial
Weekly, and president of the Sig
ma Delta Chi alumni chapter of
Portland.
Dean Allen will also attend the
meeting of the executive commit
tee of the state editorial associa
tion on Saturday.
Mozelle Hair Still III;
Confined to Residence
Miss Mozelle Hair, head of the
correspondence department of the
extension division, is still ill at
her home at 1361 Ferry, where
she has been confined to her bed
for the past three weeks.
Miss Hair cannot see visitors,
but she has been receiving many
gifts of flowers and messages
from her friends all over the
state.
A new “Y” building was recent
ly dedicated at the University of
Cincinnati. The celebration cov
ered a week, with the last day be
ing given over to the entertain
ment of foreign students.
CLASSIFIED AB3
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
DRESSMAKING AND ALTER
ING—Prices reasonable. For a
short time only, suits made for
$5.00. Mrs. Gilbert, 145 East
13th Ave.
[CAMPUn
Nature Studj’ group—will meet
Sunday at 4 p. m. at Westminster
Gamma Rho chapter of Delta
Tau Delta announces the pledging
of Benson Allen of Portland.
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Physical ability tests—at 8, 10,
and 2 o’clock today.
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Arts and Crafts group—of Philo
melete will meet at the Y. W. C. y
A. bungalow Sunday afternoon at
4 o’clock.
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Social swim—tonight at 7:30 In
Gerlinger building.
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Yell school—Candidates for next
year’s yell king and assistants
please get in touch with Hal Kel
ley, varsity yell king, immediately.
First meeting is this week-end.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENTS
Delta Gamma announces the
pledging of Helen Mielke of Port
land.
Good floor—Old Mill—Friday.
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That ’ :i-||
Bewitching Hour
THAT comes be
tween tea time
and night time,
is one of spring’s own
peculiar follies. To
properly enjoy it, you
should be at leisure,
and in a congenial
spot. The “new” Mam
my’s Cabin is just the
place, and later in the
evening, after you
have eaten, you may
either dance, or enjoy
the cheery fireplace.
Mammy’s
CABIN
PHONE 2776
Springfield Highway
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Call 2185
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