EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD " ©tegimIsis 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. Production Assistant .Gladys Mack Office Assistants .Ruth Milligan, Nora Stewart 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, $2.50 a year. Advertising rates upon application. Phone, Man ager: Office, 1896; residence, 127. 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. IhiCo llegi a tePu Ise a’.—<—'® 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. iiiiiiituiiiiiiiiinii.tiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir.iiuuiuiimt'j IIIIUllillUIIII|||||||||||||||||II|||||||||i|lllllllllllllll||i!l|lllllllll!llll!llll|||||||||!ll|l!l||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||!|!||||||||||||i||||||!|||!l!|||i:.'|!i|l|i||||,(1li:ill!ll|lll|l|lll|lllllllill|^ NEXT SUNDAY 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. TWIN OAKS LUMBER CO .iiiiniiiiiniiii QRILLE Lee-Duke’s Campus Band Friday and Saturday Nights LEE-DUKE’S CAFE Phone 549 for Reservations i E. W. Allen To Be Dinner Speaker . 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. -o Physical ability tests—at 8, 10, and 2 o’clock today. -o Arts and Crafts group—of Philo melete will meet at the Y. W. C. y A. bungalow Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock. -o Social swim—tonight at 7:30 In Gerlinger building. -o 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. i i 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 « Call 2185 TAYLOR U.-DR1VE SYSTEM ATTENTION STUDENTS Talk to us about our new low rates Late Model Graham Paige Coupes and Sedans 857 Pearl St. iiiiiHiHiiBiiiimiHnimiimaiiiiiiiiimiiiininiiBiiiiimiiiHiiiiniiin FILMS Developed and Printed at the Carl R. Baker Film Shop 7th and Willamette ARE SURE TO PLEASE Kodaks Frames Everything Fatographic "Eugene's Own Store” McMorran & Washburne PHONE 2700 “Bass” Moccasins Fashionably and Comfortably Correct for Campus Wear $y.50 A ^ splendid new assortment of those popular Bass "Rangeley moccasins. Tlie season’s smartest true Moc casin Sports Oxford for women . . . ideal for Campus wear. M e have it in all white, all smoked elk at $7.50. All styles carry the special Non-Skid Bass Brid Gristle Soles. All sizes. Come in and make your selection now. Black and White Combination at $8.50 Genuine Deauville SANDALS—ALL SIZES—WIDTHS AAA TO C All White at $8.50—Other Patterns at $6.50 and $7.50